Author of Rolling Stone article on alleged U-Va. rape didn’t talk to accused perpetrators

Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2014-12-02 08:40

Story here. Excerpt:

'The writer of a blockbuster Rolling Stone magazine story about an alleged gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity has said that she was unable to contact or interview the men who supposedly perpetrated the crime.

In interviews with The Washington Post and Slate.com last week, writer Sabrina Rubin Erdely declined to answer repeated questions about the men’s response to an allegation by a female student named Jackie that they had sexually assaulted her at a U-Va. fraternity party in 2012.

However, in a podcast interview with Slate, Erdely indicated that she was unable to locate the fraternity brothers in the course of her reporting to get their side of the story.

“I reached out to [the accused] in multiple ways,” Erdely said in the Slate interview. “They were kind of hard to get in touch with because [the fraternity’s] contact page was pretty outdated. But I wound up speaking . . . I wound up getting in touch with their local president, who sent me an e-mail, and then I talked with their sort of, their national guy, who’s kind of their national crisis manager. They were both helpful in their own way, I guess.”
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There have been no arrests in the case, and no alleged assailants have been publicly identified.

In her interview with The Post, Erdely said that she “corroborated every aspect of the story that I could.” She said that she did not identify any of the alleged attackers in the article “by Jackie’s request. She asked me not to name the individuals because she’s so fearful of them. That was something we agreed on. She was nervous about naming the frat, too. I told her, ‘If we’re trying to shine a light on this, we have to name the fraternity.’ ”

Erdely declined to say whether she knows the names of the alleged perpetrators, including “Drew.”

“I can’t answer that,” she said. “This was a topic that made Jackie extremely uncomfortable.”'

Sean Woods, who edited the Rolling Stone story, said in an interview that Erdely did not talk to the alleged assailants. “We did not talk to them. We could not reach them,” he said in an interview.

However, he said, “we verified their existence,” in part by talking to Jackie’s friends. “I’m satisfied that these guys exist and are real. We knew who they were.”'

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(Colloquial writing style, intended.)

One time, 'bout 15 years ago when Mills College Admin voted to admit men, the LA times had, like, pictures of the female students crying in anguish n' I was like, WHOA!, who killed who? Only to find out it was, like, you know, the chance of those menz attending Mills.

Well, for a REALLY GOOD TIME, head on over to Jezebel.com and just read, just read, I say, read how dem dere feministas rationalize how this was, like, you know, a real rape and articles like this just repeat the rape... like a naked man on the campus of Wellesley Campus is a rape repeater or trigger or some such silly shit like 'dat.

I'm dying' I tell you, just dyin' at the anguish, the hair pulling, the gnashing of the teeth, the gripping of the dirt like a fallen hero right outta the Iliad as them there feministas try to rationalize their denial at the fact that the Rolling Stone article was A HOAX!!!!

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Submitted by ThomasI on Wed, 2014-12-03 13:25

I'm stunned by one thing here: after 3 years, the alleged victim has never made a formal complaint with the police even though she claims to know two of the perpetrators, including "Drew," who apparently invited her to the party where she was raped. She had apparently met other victims of the same fraternity. Still, she won't go to the police. She's complains about the female dean and the female president of the university. Yet the alleged victim won't go to the police. She seems to expect someone else to do something here, and when they won't or don't, she whines about how unfair the system or school is.

Let's suppose what she says is true. Let's suppose other girls were raped. Going to the police and filing charges is the best way to put a stop to this and keep other girls safe. Apparently, either out of fear or some over wrought sense of victimhood, she will not take it upon herself to actually file a complaint and identify the culprits. She seems to think the problem will magically resolve itself.

She went to Rolling Stone but she won't go to the police. Rolling Stone can't do much except report. The police could actually do something. But they can do little until "Jackie" reports the matter.

So perhaps it's fear, or perhaps it's because it never happened. I don't know. But if she doesn't go to the police, the guys will get away with it--and may do it to other girls. Assuming it happened. Her attitude seems to reflect an underlying belief encouraged in women that they have no responsibility for making things right. Somebody else does; not them. They don't have to keep themselves safe (that's victim blaming); somebody else does. And somebody else is supposed to fix the problem for Jackie when she could fix it herself.

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Submitted by el cid on Wed, 2014-12-03 13:53