51-Year-Old Man Charged With Stalking After Years Of Harassing Phone Calls To Former 6th Grade Teacher

UNADILLA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WWJ/AP) - A 51-year-old man has been charged with stalking after harassing phone calls were made to an 81-year-old Livingston County woman who was his sixth-grade teacher decades ago.

Steven Kremski also is charged with malicious use of a telecommunications device. He was arraigned Friday and told a judge he takes "no position at this time," according to a report in The Livingston Daily Press.

When the calls started in 2011, according to court records, the woman said no one spoke on the other line; she could only hear heavy breathing. Over time, the calls "became more frightening" and increased in number. In one instance, Kremski allegedly told the woman that he located the graves of her relatives. She noted, however, that the phone calls were never threatening in nature.

Police say Kremski was "obsessed" with his former teacher and the calls were designed to terrorize, frighten or annoy her. He was arrested Thursday by Unadilla Township police after two more calls were made from a payphone at Bishop International Airport in Flint.

Kremski remains jailed on a $100,000 bond and is due back in court on February 29.

The teacher told the newspaper that the kindness she showed Kremski as a child might have led to his fixation.

"I took the time to care enough to notice (him) and help, and I doubt there were many people in his life who did that," she said.

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