“Mom, they think I’m lying.” Radnor H.S. mothers open up about the AI-manipulated video of their daughters and how officials handled it. The school board is updating its policies.

Nearly two months after five distraught Radnor High School freshman girls told their parents that AI fakes of their sexualized images were making the rounds, authorities charged a 9^th-grade boy with criminal harassment.

Case closed?

Hardly.

Three of the five Radnor mothers this week went public about the lasting damage of AI-generated video on their daughters and families and blasted the incident’s handling by school officials and police.

At a packed school board policy committee meeting Tuesday night, one mother, Luciana LiBrandi, called for immediate changes to district policy and the student handbook.

Two other mothers, who asked to remain anonymous, opened up to SAVVY about her family’s trauma a few days later.

Here are some of the second mother’s responses to our questions:

“My daughter called me crying after being interviewed one-on-one by the assistant principal. This occurred after we had specifically requested that we be contacted before any such meeting took place, which did not happen. While crying, she said, “Mom, they think I’m lying,” and asked me to pick her up from school.” [Radnor’s principal and 9th-grade guidance counselor were alerted by a group email from parents shortly after their daughters reported the video, the mother tells SAVVY. According to school officials, two calls also came in to the Safe2Say Something anonymous tipline.]

“Our entire families have been profoundly impacted by what happened. This incident has penetrated every part of our lives … The ripple effects have affected our mental health, our sense of safety, our ability to focus at work and at school, and our overall family stability. The stress has been constant and consuming.

… The most shocking and distressing aspect of this entire experience has been the response of both the school and the police. The communications and emails issued by both … were inaccurate, inappropriate, omitted material facts, and significantly downplayed what had occurred, repeatedly referring to the events as “rumors” and refusing to acknowledge the sexual nature of the images and videos or that a crime occurred.

…At a systemic level, we did not feel heard, respected, or taken seriously. Families repeatedly raised concerns about evidence, investigative steps, and process, and those concerns were not meaningfully addressed.”

The third distressed mother shared similar concerns Friday afternoon. Some of her statements:

“Girls were pulled out of class after the situation was already widely known and visibly escorted to the principal’s office, increasing stigma, exposure, humiliation and distress. This happened despite the parents’ documented request to not interview the girls without speaking to a parent first. They were interviewed 1×1 by a 45 year old male.

…This is not simply a student misconduct story. It is a breakdown in institutional response to digital sexual violence enabled by consumer AI tools, in a state that has already passed a law specifically intended to address this conduct.”

At Tuesday’s night’s policy committee meeting, only LiBrandi identified herself as a family that had been directly impacted. She, too, spoke of her family’s ongoing pain:

“When AI generated or manipulated images and videos are used to sexualize, demean, or humiliate a student, the impact is immediate and lasting. These incidents do not end when a file is deleted, or a message disappears. For a teenager, the emotional and psychological effects can be profound.”

School officials had hinted that their hands were somewhat tied by board policy because the AI-manipulation took place off-campus.

But Librandi wasn’t buying it.

At the meeting, she called for new, clear protocols for dealing with non-consensual AI-generated videos shared in the Radnor community, whether they were created and share on or off school grounds.

She also asked school officials to report such incidents to police without delay. Parents said the alleged harasser admitted his guilt but had ample time to destroy the evidence.

Like the anonymous parent, Librandi questioned the district’s interview of her daughter and other victims without parental permission or a supportive staff member of the girls’ choosing in the room.

Along with other speakers, she called out the frequency and tone of the district’s emails to the community.

“Minimizing or downplaying an incident can unintentionally harm victims and can contribute to lasting trauma, particularly at an age when mental health vulnerabilities are well documented.”

About 30 concerned parents attended Tuesday night’s policy committee meeting. Several weighed in, most showed up to lend moral support.

School board members were receptive to parents’ feedback and began a detailed review of the pertinent policies related to bullying, harassment and AI-generated content. The committee will review draft changes at its next meeting set for March 10.

Policy changes are crafted and approved at the committee level, then go the full board for approval. The process typically takes several months.

The second parent believes Radnor has a chance to set the standard.

“What families are asking for now is not retribution or symbolic action, but concrete, system-level change so the next family is not re-traumatized … This will not be the last school district or police department to face an incident like this. How Radnor chooses to respond now will set a precedent for how schools and communities respond everywhere.”