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Speaker 1: A fifteen year old student at Cape Elizabeth High in Portland, Maine,

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Speaker 1: just won a free speech case. She admitted that she

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Speaker 1: wrote a message and stuck it on a school bathroom mirror.

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Speaker 1: The message, there's a rapist in our school and you

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Speaker 1: know who it is. Well, people didn't know who it was.

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Speaker 1: The school rumor mill went into overdrive as school administrators

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Speaker 1: conducted dozens of interviews to get to the bottom of it.

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Speaker 1: One boy whose name came up in the rumor mill

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Speaker 1: stayed home for eight days out of fear for his safety.

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Speaker 1: Nothing was ever proven about the identity of the alleged rapist,

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Speaker 1: or if there even was a rapist. School administrators suspended

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Speaker 1: this fifteen year old who started all of this for

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Speaker 1: three days. She went to court to block the suspension,

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Speaker 1: claiming she was just raising awareness about sexual assault, you know,

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Speaker 1: lying and making it up like journalists do. Last week,

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Speaker 1: a U. S District Court judge granted her temporary restraining order.

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Speaker 1: He said that if the matter is litigated, should probably win.

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Speaker 1: The judge said that he understands the school administrator's perspective,

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Speaker 1: but they don't have carte blanc to tap down the

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Speaker 1: student's concerns about social justice. So you can't yell fire

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Speaker 1: in a crowded theater, but you can yell rape in

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Speaker 1: a crowded school. You can put it on a mirror.

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Speaker 1: As for those wrongly accused or smeared, too bad, no

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Speaker 1: social justice for them. Besides their guys, they're guilty anyway, right,