This is exactly how all SJW witch hunts work:

- The accused is not heard even once.

- The accused is presented with sentence and extorted: leave quietly or else ...

- The reason is presented as a vague "harmful and damaging to the X community".

The winners are always bureaucrats who have to justify their existence and love power games. Probably they also have psychopathic tendencies.

And the school's gonna eat that 20 million dollar lawsuit for it. Witch hunts on social media are one thing. Forcing students out on on a rumor of something that happened years ago is another

At least there's a silver lining! I'd happily take expulsion for $20 mil in my (and a lawyer's) pocket!

It's happened with many male sexual assault cases where schools vilified men on pure accusations alone and even expelled them. Then with some of these bureaucrats realized they aren't above the law to deny someone educational rights by nothing short of hearsay, they began to realize you can't crucify someone because of it.

That's a bit of a different thing. There's more obviously a possible victim in that one than with some old photo being taken.