CV NEWS FEED // A leading pro-parent activist is filing a defamation lawsuit after various media sources reportedly misrepresented harassment allegations against her.
Nicole Marie Prussman chairs a chapter of Moms For Liberty based in Monroe County, Pennsylvania. Per The Daily Signal’s Tyler O’Neil, Prussman “received a citation for harassment in April, after news reports of the charge came out” the month before.
“Although a magistrate court judge initially found Prussman guilty without a proper fair trial, the case was dismissed on appeal when the state ruled that Prussman’s accuser failed to corroborate her alleged evidence,” O’Neil reported.
“Yet the news outlets that reported the charges against Prussman have not reported her acquittal,” he added.
This amounted to “a very organized hit job by a group called Stop Moms for Liberty,” said Doug Turpin, the president of Coalition for Liberty – a pro-First Amendment group defending Prussman.
Turpin continued:
They planned this. You can even see online how they were getting their members to plot to file harassment charges against Moms for Liberty all across the country. This was a deliberate attempt to cancel Nicole [Prussman] simply because she was speaking out on behalf of children because of inappropriate and highly sexual content.
What they were looking to do was destroy her reputation, destroy her job. They had people organizing, hitting them with automated bots on her website and filling up the calendar for months and months on end just to deny her the ability to practice her business as a teacher, trying to help parents as a counselor with the issues that the children were having.
“They just tried to destroy Nicole in every possible way,” Turpin emphasized.
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Moms For Liberty is notable for its opposition to the presence of sexually explicit books in school libraries.
“We are reclaiming education now in America by winning school board seats and reclaiming local control so national teachers unions aren’t driving curriculum choices in our hometowns,” the organization’s co-foundress Tiffany Justice told CatholicVote in a July interview.
“I decided that if we were going to do Moms for Liberty we were going to do it with a joyful spirit and show our children that it was a privilege to fight for America, and it can be done in a positive and uplifting way,” Justice explained.
Last month, actor and former “Reading Rainbow” host LeVar Burton joked about fistfighting Moms for Liberty’s mostly-female activists at the National Book Awards.
“Before we get going, are there any Moms for Liberty in the house?” Burton asked.
“No? Good,” he said. “Then hands will not need to be thrown tonight.”
As CatholicVote noted at the time, “Burton has frequently repeated the talking point that removing pornographic content from school libraries amounts to ‘book banning.’”
