BAY CITY, MI -- A Bay City woman is in hot water for allegedly posting some nasty comments about a former friend on Facebook.

On Monday, Oct. 19, a Bay County Sheriff's deputy responded to a 45-year-old woman's harassment complaint. The woman told the deputy a former friend of hers, 35-year-old Rene K. Kolka, was posting derogatory comments on Facebook, court records show.

The complainant provided the deputy with copies of the Facebook posts, court records show. In them, Kolka referred to the other woman as a "slut," said "We all know her skanky ways," referred to her as a "skinny tall coke head" and advised others "Don't catch an STD" from her, court records show. Kolka also posted the woman's phone number, court records show.

The complainant told police she has since received numerous calls from unknown men inquiring about her, court records show. She went on to say the ordeal was awful, embarrassing and potentially detrimental to her career.

The woman said she had a falling out with Kolka about two years previously and did not know why Kolka was publishing the posts now, court records show.

The deputy on Oct. 20 went to Kolka's last known address. A fellow tenant of the apartment building told the deputy Kolka moved out in the middle of the night a month prior, court records show.

The deputy later telephoned Kolka, but she refused to give him her current address. She did not deny the messages were on her Facebook page, but said her account had recently been hacked and someone else may have published the statements, court records show. Kolka went on to tell the deputy she would remove the offensive statements.

Authorities issued a warrant for Kolka's arrest on Monday, Jan. 4. She voluntarily appeared for arraignment in Bay County District Court on Friday, Feb. 19.

Kolka is charged with one count of unlawful posting of a message, punishable by up to two years in prison and a $5,000 fine. State law defines this crime as follows:

(1) A person shall not post a message through the use of any medium of communication, including the internet or a computer, computer program, computer system, or computer network, or other electronic medium of communication, without the victim's consent, if all of the following apply:

(a) The person knows or has reason to know that posting the message could cause 2 or more separate noncontinuous acts of unconsented contact with the victim.

(b) Posting the message is intended to cause conduct that would make the victim feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, threatened, harassed, or molested.

(c) Conduct arising from posting the message would cause a reasonable person to suffer emotional distress and to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, threatened, harassed, or molested.

(d) Conduct arising from posting the message causes the victim to suffer emotional distress and to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, threatened, harassed, or molested.

Kolka is to appear for a preliminary examination before District Judge Mark E. Janer at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, March 8.