Student’s Federal Suit Claims URI Defamed Her After She Was Victim of Video Voyeurism in Bathroom

A University of Rhode Island (URI) student has sued the school, after she says a man in a unisex bathroom on campus recorded her while she was showering – and that the university subsequently “defamed” her.

The woman, who is represented by attorneys Steven Fanning and Brie Fanning-DiLibero, alleges that URI “falsely, carelessly and negligently represented to third-parties” that the alleged perpetrator was “known to her, as the victim,” making her “easily identifiable.”

She has filed the lawsuit as “Jane Doe,” and she is seeking “an order that the Defendants make whole the Plaintiff with appropriate compensation for emotional and physical distress, loss of consortium, and interest, in amounts to be proved at trial, and other affirmative relief necessary to eradicate the effects of their conduct.”…

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