Legal Question in Telecomm Law in Ohio

I have an arraignment hearing next week in my city Municipal court. The city is trying to charge me with 2917.21 Telecommunications harassment under Ohio law, with phone/harrassment which is a 1st degree misdemeanor. I went through a very nasty divorce with my ex-wife. She is constantly posting lies and misinformation about me on her personal Facebook and Myspace social networking pages and has not allowed me to see my children in over a year, she lives in Michigan. In a very weak moment, I created a parody myspace page of my ex-wife. There was nothing threatening on the page, but I did make distasteful some distasteful comments about her family and how well she is keeping our children away from her father, all as if she were actually saying it herself. Anyone reading it would know that it was done in 'parody', but the local detective believes that it was my intent to harrass her in some way. It may have been distasteful, but it was not meant with 'criminal' intent. Trying to charge me under the telecommunication harrasment law 2917.21 seems very broad in its meaning. I have never harrassed her by using a telephone and though I did make her aware of the myspace page on the interent, I did take it down immediately, as I even realized it was a juvenile thing to do on my part and did not want to further escalate the situation. How can posting true and accurate information be considered 'harrassment'? Have a really commited a crime worthy of being punished with a misdemeanor 1 offense? This would ruin my career and any future job prospects.

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