{"id":75784,"date":"2020-09-26T00:00:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T21:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/school-teen-agree-to-end-lawsuit-over-sexual-assault-note\/"},"modified":"2020-09-26T00:00:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T21:00:02","slug":"school-teen-agree-to-end-lawsuit-over-sexual-assault-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/school-teen-agree-to-end-lawsuit-over-sexual-assault-note\/","title":{"rendered":"#School, teen agree to end lawsuit over sexual assault note"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#School, teen agree to end lawsuit over sexual assault note<\/strong>”
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\n PORTLAND, Maine \u2014 The Cape Elizabeth School Department has agreed to remove any record of discipline against a student who posted a note about sexual assault in a bathroom last year, ending an almost yearlong lawsuit.<\/p>\n

Aela Mansmann, 16, sued the district when her high school suspended her for posting a note in a school bathroom last year that said: \u201cThere\u2019s a rapist in our school and you know who it is.\u201d The American Civil Liberties Union of Maine, representing Mansmann, won a temporary restraining order to block the suspension.<\/p>\n

Mansmann filed a motion to settle the lawsuit and the school has agreed to remove any record of her suspension, the Portland Press Herald reported Thursday.<\/a><\/p>\n

A judge must app<\/a>rove the settlement, which has not been released. The ACLU would not say more about the settlement to the news<\/a>paper and said Mansmann would not be available to speak on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The district twice appealed court rulings that blocked the suspension and defended Mansmann\u2019s note as free speech. Previously, the school had said it appealed the ruling to allow it to maintain safety and order.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, an attorney for the school district, Melissa Hewey, told the newspaper the school pursued the case to preserve the school\u2019s ability to discipline students whose speech led to bullying.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a legal principle we set out to establish and we did establish,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The court found the school did not show that Mansmann\u2019s note bullied any particular student.<\/p>\n

Hewey said she was being paid by the school\u2019s insurance but did not know what the final cost of the lawsuit would be to the school district. Cape Elizabeth is located about 8 miles (13 kilometers) from Portland and is one of the wealthiest communities in Maine.<\/p>\n

Through her attorneys, Mansmann has said she wrote the note in September last year to draw attention to unaddressed sexual assaults at the school. She and other advocates for survivors of sexual assault voiced their concerns at a school board meeting in June 2019, the newspaper reported.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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