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You can watch The Assault (2014) for free on Hoopla.

After a cheerleader is sexually assaulted by the high school football team, she must overcome her shame and use the evidence gathered from the subsequent social media firestorm to piece together the night that she can't remember in her fight for justice. Based on the true story of the Steubenville, Ohio rape case.

Small-town social media circles turn into a digital battlefield when a cheerleader fights to reconstruct a night lost to trauma and silence. This unflinching look at the Steubenville case forces viewers to confront how community loyalty often protects predators over victims.