Victim Impact Statement: Dan Holman March 19, 2025

Posted March 19, 2025 by Prairie Wife -

The following is a copy of the Victim Impact Statement of Dan Holman from March 19, 2025 in the Plea Hearing of M***** S**** Misdemeanor Stalking Charges

As a Father and husband I believe that I have several responsibilities in regards to my family. First and foremost is to love my wife and kids. Second is to protect my family. After that, in no particular order I have the responsibility to provide a home for my family, and I need to make sure they are clothed, fed, educated, have transportation, medical care, opportunities for individual growth, and to help them establish faith in their lives. The list could go on and on.

The last year has proven to me how difficult it can be to protect at child. Last November M***** S**** reached out to us with a multitude of disparaging text messages that were supposedly sent to her daughter from my daughter. When I heard about this I was really shaken that my daughter would behave that way. I was concerned for M*****’s daughter and angry at mine.

When I confronted my daughter with the screen shots that M***** S**** sent us, Gillian adamantly denied ever seeing or sending them. I pressed my daughter for the truth. I pressured my daughter to confess. I accused my daughter of lying. I threatened my daughter. Gillian never backed up. Not one inch. She never weakened. She stood firm and denied the accusations.  The accusations seemed out of character for the young lady I have raised, so I chose to take Gillian at her word and believed that she was innocent. Almost a year later we would come to find out that M***** S**** was the real author of those texts.

As time went on more slanderous and demeaning messages started to arrive in various forms. Instagram messages, anonymous texts, and emails. Some gave the appearance that they were sent from another teen girl. Some seemed to be from an adult. Some seemed to be from a young male based on the sexual nature. Some clearly impersonated people in the community that we know. The messages came to Gillian, my Wife, and myself. Our oldest son also had messages from her from a fake Instagram account.

The messages were nearly always sexual in nature. One series of text messages I received from a ‘’Concerned Parent” accused my daughter of multiple acts of oral sex on boys at school. The text went on to say how the young men at school had a betting pool going to see who could have sex with my daughter first, to take her virginity. This was the hardest discussion I have ever had to have with my daughter. I had to sit down with my girl, face to face and ask her if these were true. I didn’t believe that they were, but as a father I could not leave them unaddressed. Watching my daughter weep over this was heartbreaking.

We had a lot of nights at the house where my daughter would sit and try to talk through this with my wife and I. She would cry. She didn’t know why someone would do this to her. She would rack her brain trying to figure out who it was. She was scared.

One series of messages Gillian received while at State FFA convention really upset her. It was clear by the messages that the person who was sending the texts was present at State FFA and had seen her. They commented on what she was wearing and made a remark saying that they wanted to have sex with her.

This escalation really had Gillian afraid that she could be assaulted. She was away from home and scared that she was going to be hurt.  I was not able to protect my daughter from this anonymous assault.  M***** S**** was on that trip as a chaperone. She was there in a role meant to protect kids. Instead she was preying on mine.

More messages happened the night of prom. M***** S****, again was chaperoning that event. She was there in role meant to help protect kids. Instead she was preying on mine. I wasn’t able to protect my daughter that night either.

More messages happened before Iowa Nationals Wrestling. Gillian received more as she traveled to Nationals at Fargo. Many of these message dumps, as I would call them, came on the verge of great things happening in my daughter’s life. They were meant to inflict pain on my child at a time when my girl was working hard to focus and be the best version of herself. These messages all had the same purpose, they were meant to harm Gillian, and I was not able to protect her from them.

I had to tell my daughter that I didn’t have a way to help her. I couldn’t guarantee that everything was going to be ok. I had to have my daughter make sure and run with other kids at cross country practice because we didn’t know if someone was going to try and hurt her. We had to have talks about keeping your head on a swivel because we didn’t know where the threat was. There were events she wanted to attend but we wouldn’t let her because we felt she would be too vulnerable. This young lady got a dose of life she shouldn’t have had to deal with at 15 and 16 years old.

We are here today because we have a 40+ year old woman who stalked and harassed a 15 year old girl. This is not a situation where there was one inappropriate drunk text sent. This is not a situation where an adult made a single poor decision. This is a situation where a grown woman made multiple,  calculated and malicious attempts to harm a child. M***** S**** went to great lengths to hide her identity. She pretended to be several people in this process. She bought a burner phone to disguise herself. She impersonated a well-respected educator.

She set up fake email accounts and messaged teachers. She worked hard to drive a wedge between myself and my daughter. She tried to harm my daughter’s relationship with her mother. She intended to harm my daughter and she did, multiple times over nearly a year long period.  I was not able to protect Gillian.

This is the exact type of stalking, bullying, and harassment we all to often hear of in the news that causes a young kid to take their lives. I thank God my daughter had the strength to keep her chin up throughout this terrible experience and I am proud that she knew she had a strong family to support her.

M***** S**** took a year away from my daughter. She took a year away that my girl should have been blooming, growing, and having fun. A year where my daughter should have been being a kid, not walking around in constant fear, feeling helpless and waiting for the next text or message.

There is no excuse for M***** S****’s actions. This was pure malice. This was calculated.  Her sole intention was to harm my daughter.

Since M***** was identified as the perp by the Glenrock Police department all we have heard back through the community is her denial that she did it. We have heard how she didn’t act alone. We have heard how it wasn’t that big of a deal and nothing is going to happen to her because it’s just a misdemeanor. We have heard about her whining that she is the victim.

We have not heard an apology. We have not seen any accountability for her actions. She is not concerned with the damage she has caused these kids, but is only concerned with her public image. We were cautioned by the Glenrock Police and the County Deputies about her lack of emotion and remorse when the Protection order was served and when she was issued her criminal citation. I doubt that there is any genuine remorse here today.

I struggle with the fact that this is a misdemeanor. For nearly the last two years, she’s lurked in the shadows and preyed on the young like a coyote does. And she should be regarded as such.

Thank You

Victim Impact Statement of Dan Holman written for the March 19, 2025 Plea Hearing of M***** S**** Misdemeanor Stalking Charges

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