Cyber stalker sentenced, victim describes harassment

ORLANDO -- 

He’s accused of threatening to kill a young woman over Twitter and sending her YouTube videos showing him touching his private parts and demanding she loves him or else.

Now, 24-year-old Patrick Macchione is in prison.

The alleged stalker was sentenced Friday on several counts for cyber stalking, but he won’t be behind bars for very long.

Macchione will be in jail for 48 months and will then have a 19-year-long probation.

The victim said after all of the online stalking and the hundreds of calls, she will never be able to live in peace unless the accused stalker is behind bars for the rest of his life.

A mental health expert who examined Macchione said there’s clearly something wrong with him.

“He could not comprehend why anyone would view his actions as wrong or improper,” said Dr. Jeffrey Danziger.

In sentencing Friday, the defense showed numerous YouTube videos they say were uploaded by Macchione in 2009 aiming at harassing his victim, a student at the University of Central Florida.

“You give me your address and I’ll be there and it will be the best day of your life,” said Macchione in a video.

“The videos were disturbing,” said Kristen Pratt during the hearing. “They were, they were just, they just they shook me.”

“I found out about these YouTube videos through friends because he had gone into my friends on my Facebook and went alphabetically to all my friends and sent them messages asking them to tell me to look at these videos.”

The defense also said Macchione sent Twitter messages, one of them reading quote: “It is up to you now to save your life. I have no options. I will not be arrested.”

The alleged harassment didn’t stop there.

The victim said he would send her texts and call her phone excessively.

She said she changed her phone number several times but Macchione managed to find a way to contact her phone each time.

She says he would call her dozens of times every few hours.

The doctor who examined him recommended Macchione receive medication for his mental illness while in prison.

During his probation, he will not be allowed to use a computer with access to internet, and he will be supervised. The judge said that if he were to violate this rule, even in the smallest way, he could go to jail for up to 15 years.