Covington, KY—A federal court
jury just awarded former Cincinnati Bengal’s cheerleader, Sarah Jones $338,000
over anonymous third-party comments posted to a Scottsdale based website,
thedirty.com.
The site operator, Nik Richie
took a well-deserved litigation beating when he did not screen or delete the
nasty comments. The posts defamed the
woman with malicious and unfounded allegations of sexual activities with the
entire football team.
Richie’s unsuccessful defense
was to suggest that Jones should have take the unknown third part posters to
court instead of him. Bloggers
everywhere have been watching his case.
Jones had a rather sticky
brush with the law related to a sexual relationship with an underage student
when she was a teacher. Reportedly Jones
is still in a relationship lad who is now 18 and plans to marry him.
Often people post allegations
about others that I cannot or won’t try and verify. Some are true and some are malicious and
defamatory. I delete them
immediately. I don’t do that over fears
of being sued, I do it because it’s the right thing to do.
When I publish information on
this blog I take care to vet, verify and investigate. I won’t compromise simple decency to those
people whose activities I chronicle here.
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