betty rollin has our report. >> it's called cyberabuse, and it looks like this. this is the sort of message that erin roy and her sorority sisters found themselves confronted with in erin's junior year of college. erin is now a senior at marist college in poughkeepsie, new york, a small college with a catholic heritage. >> one day i came home from class, walked in my house, and my housemates were huddled around the computer, and they said that they had heard of and found this website. so i went over, checked it out, and just saw terrible, terrible things written. initially, it definitely affected a lot of girls i know. i think they were just devastated, embarrassed, upset. marist is a very small school. so one person hears something and it spreads like wildfire even if it holds no truth.op >> the website that was spreading the malicious gossip at marist and 500 other colleges and universities was called juicycampus. incredibly, the students had no way to stop it since the messages were all anonymously written and the web site was under no legal obligation to remo