Tanya Maree Quattrocchi, 23, was refused bail April 9 by a judge who said she must stay in custody because it’s too risky that she might start stalking up a storm again. She was convicted in 2007 of cyber-stalking and blackmailing DeGarmo and sentenced to serve 150 hours of community service.

Picking up trash in ye old orange jumpsuit didn’t deter her as Quattrocchi was arrested in January on six new charges of cyber-stalking the singer, her mother and her roommate.

Here’s the breakdown of Quattrocchi’s cyber-stalking: Police say she interfered with DeGarmo’s e-mails, accessed her MySpace account 700 times in eight months and sent electronic messages to the singer between last May and January this year.

OK, this is the most random story ever. Why did Quattrocchi decide to stalk the 2004 “Idol” contestant? Does anyone else even remember who DeGarmo is? Well, I guess you can’t blame her for her choice of victims as you have to be a little crazy to become a stalker.

What was Quattrocchi thinking the night Fantasia Barrino stole the “American Idol” prize from DeGarmo? Was she cursing herself for not voting a few dozen hundred times more? Did Quattrocchi stop watching “American Idol” after that point in protest? If not, what does she think of Adam Lambert’s cover of “Mad World”? Awesome, right?

Has Quattrocchi ever stalked anyone before or after DeGarmo? Or is it always going to be DeGarmo, forever?

Senior Sergeant Graham Banks told the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court that Quattrocchi was at risk of committing further offenses and interfering with witnesses if she were granted bail.

Quattrocchi’s mother told the court that if Quattrocchi is released, she would be willing to quit her job and stay with her daughter 24 hours a day to make sure she couldn’t access the Internet.

How would this even work out? Would her mother stay awake 24/7? Because once mom falls asleep Quattrocchi could simply hop online and quickly access DeGarmo’s MySpace page. Even if there’s not a computer in the house, I’m sure she could find a library or a cyber café. Unless Quattrocchi was locked in her bedroom, with a window too small to climb out of. But wouldn’t that basically be a prison cell?

“Tanya is not a bad person, she might have made a stupid mistake and I want to help her,” Lina Quattrocchi said April 9. “I can’t see her surviving prison life. She just doesn’t fit in there.”

DeGarmo released her debut album, Blue Skies, in 2004. She has also appeared in the Broadway production of “Hairspray.”

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