Woman faces stalking charges for 65,000 calls to 'boyfriend' this year

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By Douglas Stanglin, USA TODAY

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A Dutch woman faces stalking charges today for allegedly calling a man she described as her boyfriend 65,000 times in the past year, the BBC reports.

That works out to an average of 178 calls a day.

The 63-year-old target of the phone calls and texts denies he is in a relationship with the 42-year-old Rotterdam woman. Her lawyer claims there is a relationship and denies that his client's actions are excessive.

The BBC says a judge at a preliminary hearing in The Hague let the woman out on bail on condition she leave the man alone.

The BBC says she allegedly rang him up a couple of hours later and is back in custody.

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