The lawsuit states that Yashko called Bean-DeFlumer a pedophile and a 'wife-beater.' However, there are no public criminal records for Bean-DeFlumer in either Delaware Municipal or Delaware County Common Pleas courts to support that accusation. The attacks are 'disparaging misinterpretations of the truth in order to make the plaintiffs look unhinged, untrustworthy, unable to serve the public and incompetent,' according to the lawsuit filed earlier this month in Delaware County Common Pleas Court. The lawsuit raises broad questions, some say, about what is permitted on community social media sites and who is legally responsible when dialog turns hostile, vindictive and, potentially, defamatory. Because the website's other administrators and moderators failed to stop the verbal attacks, Yashko, 53, and seven others are also named in the lawsuit for 'civil conspiracy,' according to the lawsuit.
