Hi Julie,
I am so, so sorry and alarmed to hear about your experience. Have you done a background check of him yourself yet? Verified user doesn’t mean anything, as I recently found out. All it means is that his profile pic matches a gov. ID. Let me know and I can run his name if you’d like to see. Please take care of yourself. Get on the local news and a lawyer if needed. It sounds natural to have a lot of anger about this. Other hosts are also in the line of fire
I know because I recently had a guest host an illegal drug injection party at my rental house and Airbnb trust and safety team did less than nothing. No help. No advice. He is still on this site booking reservations. I did a background check of him myself and he has a criminal record from August 2015. Now I’m worried about retribution for a bad review.
It makes me extremely worrried about the quality of guests that the site is attracting. I’ve been hosting since 2014 but this danger isn’t worth it.