Speaker 1: A fifteen year old student at Cape Elizabeth High in Portland, Maine,
Speaker 1: just won a free speech case. She admitted that she
Speaker 1: wrote a message and stuck it on a school bathroom mirror.
Speaker 1: The message, there's a rapist in our school and you
Speaker 1: know who it is. Well, people didn't know who it was.
Speaker 1: The school rumor mill went into overdrive as school administrators
Speaker 1: conducted dozens of interviews to get to the bottom of it.
Speaker 1: One boy whose name came up in the rumor mill
Speaker 1: stayed home for eight days out of fear for his safety.
Speaker 1: Nothing was ever proven about the identity of the alleged rapist,
Speaker 1: or if there even was a rapist. School administrators suspended
Speaker 1: this fifteen year old who started all of this for
Speaker 1: three days. She went to court to block the suspension,
Speaker 1: claiming she was just raising awareness about sexual assault, you know,
Speaker 1: lying and making it up like journalists do. Last week,
Speaker 1: a U. S District Court judge granted her temporary restraining order.
Speaker 1: He said that if the matter is litigated, should probably win.
Speaker 1: The judge said that he understands the school administrator's perspective,
Speaker 1: but they don't have cart blanc to tap down the
Speaker 1: student's concerns about social justice. So you can't yell fire
Speaker 1: at a crowded theater, but you can yell rape in
Speaker 1: a crowded school. You can put it on a mirror.
Speaker 1: As for those wrongly accused or smeared, too bad, No
Speaker 1: social justice for them. Besides their guys. They're guilty anyway, right,