According to the witch, who calls herself a "hereditary high priestess," the court's decision was in line with her psychic predictions, and so she wasn't surprised that justice was served.
The judge said Sforza was "heartfelt and credible" while testifying against Day, who owns an occult shop in Salem where Sforza was once employed.
"She opened a store behind my back in July 2012," said Day, the self-proclaimed "world's best-known warlock" and who plans to file an appeal, the Boston Globe reported. "This is a business dispute and everything that she said in there about my calling her was a lie… I am the victim here."
Fiore Porreca, who represented Sforza, said Day's harassment — over the phone and via posts on social media — has hurt his client's business.
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"He called me the C-word," the Globe quoted Sforza as saying.
Paul Moraski, Day's lawyer, compared Sforza with Donald Trump, the US presidential candidate who's seen no lack of online ridicule. Though online comments are protected speech, the judge ruled, unwanted telephone harassment is subject to legal prosecution.
"I'm not Donald Trump," Sforza said. "Wishing death on me is not a public figure thing. It came from exactly Mr. Christian Day."
Day later confessed it's not the first time he's been blamed for unwanted phone calls, as he'd been ordered to stop harassing other women in the past, but, he maintained, there was no evidence linking him to the calls about which Sforza complained.
"This is a business dispute and everything she said about me is a lie," he concluded. "When I have something to say, I say it to your face."
Sforza, who goes by the business name Lori Bruno, owns the Magika witchcraft store and founded the Our Lord and Lady of the Trinacrian Rose pagan church in Salem. She claims to have descended from Italian witches who healed bubonic plague victims.
