Wow . Yeah , what a horrible creature . That said , her kid is not your problem . Not your circus , not your monkeys . You need to shift your focus to yourself and to building your future . And , if at all possible getting out of a small , nowhere town so that you can find your people . People who value you and care for you and are not loser bullies . The only thing that matters now is you and your future . To the extent possible , get yourself out of the local gossip loop . Don ' t follow her or her friends on FB , don ' t look for information about her or any of them . Just invest ALL of your time and energy into yourself and on finding your future life . Assholes like this will not matter in the future , so don ' t let them derail your future . Everyone pretty much goes through shit like this in some form or another at some time and the good news is that life does get better as long as you don ' t focus on the bad old shit and shift your focus onto your future and on building it .