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Long story..

My friend *Abby* has been dating *Ian* for about 6 months.
He is 25 and she is 20. She has a daughter and he has a son.
He is kinda on the off side a little bit, very paranoid with her.
Well, she tried breaking up with him one day and
Ian had left his stuff at her house, she told him that she would leave
his stuff in her mailbox. He walked up her driveway and claimed to have left more in her house. She told him to leave, her daughter started crying because he refused to leave. She than slapped him and he ran off.
he left her a voicemail saying that he is on his way to see the magistry to
file an assault claim for her slapping him and that she needs to call
a babysitter because she will be arrested.
But before he called the cops, she called them because he wouldn't leave.
In my eyes, he was threatening her, so she can countersue,
also the fact that he refused to get off her property and was scarying
her child. Her court date is on Thursday, to add she is on probation from an unrelated non violent charge. She can serve up to a year in jail. 

Ian wants to drop the charges but i heard that if an assault charge is made, it cannot be dropped. We live in Va, FYI.

she doesn't have a lawyer and nor does he, she doesn't think she needs one, but I keep telling her that she does.

So, does she need a lawyer or should she have one?
Can't she countersue?
will they sentence her on the first courtdate

opinions!

also, she was never arrested
<bot>: my friend broke up with her bf. he showed up at her house and wouldn't leave. she slaps him and now he is suing her. she also caled the cops for him not leaving