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U-Va. fraternity to rebut claims of gang rape in Rolling Stone
Washington Post ^ | December 5, 2014 | T. Rees Shapiro

Posted on 12/05/2014 10:30:38 AM PST by C19fan

A lawyer for the University of Virginia fraternity whose members were accused of a brutal gang rape said Friday that the organization will release a statement rebutting the claims printed in a Rolling Stone article about the incident. Several of the woman’s close friends and campus sex assault awareness advocates said that they also doubt the published account.

Officials close to the fraternity said that the statement will indicate that Phi Kappa Psi did not host a party on Sept. 28, 2012, the night that a university student named Jackie alleges she was invited to a date party, lured into an upstairs room and was then ambushed and gang-raped by seven men who were rushing the fraternity.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: fraternity; jackie; rape; rollingstone; uofvirginia; uva; virginia
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To: C19fan

From the article:

Jackie’s former roommate, Rachel Soltis, said that she noticed emotional and physical changes to her friend during the fall semester of 2012, when the two shared a suite on campus.

“She was withdrawn, depressed and couldn’t wake up in the mornings,” said Soltis, who told the Post that she was convinced that Jackie was sexually assaulted. Soltis said that Jackie did not tell her about the alleged sexual assault until January 2013. Soltis said that she did not notice any apparent wounds on Jackie’s body at the time that might have indicated a brutal attack.


21 posted on 12/05/2014 10:55:02 AM PST by vladimir998
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To: saleman

No, UVa suspended all fraternity activities for the rest of the semester under their “punish the innocent” strategy.


22 posted on 12/05/2014 10:56:48 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: wrench

“I commented on the original story that it was all but word for word from a TV show script from the 80s, and very similar to another show and a movie about that time.”

I think I remember your comment! I didn’t think it sounded like a movie but the detail that got me was the shattered glass coffee table and how useless her friends were in caring for her.


23 posted on 12/05/2014 10:56:48 AM PST by vladimir998
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To: vladimir998

Making false accusations of rape is an extraordinarily low thing to do ...


24 posted on 12/05/2014 10:58:31 AM PST by NorthMountain
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To: C19fan
Rolling Stone did not vet the story correctly. Their level of “Due Diligence” became rampant and malicious legal incompetence. I hope the fraternity owns Rolling Stone when the lawsuit is over.
25 posted on 12/05/2014 10:58:39 AM PST by cpdiii (DECKHAND, ROUGHNECK, GEOLOGIST, PILOT, PHARMACIST, LIBERTARIAN The Constitution is worth dying for.)
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To: C19fan

After all of the outrage and the hyperventilating, including that engaged in by the university president, Virginia lawmakers (including Republicans), and my local news station, WSET-13, it comes to this.

Maybe, just maybe, they’ll wait for some facts to roll in next time, rather than clutching their pearls over an allegation.


26 posted on 12/05/2014 10:59:31 AM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: vladimir998
Jackie’s former roommate, Rachel Soltis, said that she noticed emotional and physical changes to her friend during the fall semester of 2012, when the two shared a suite on campus. “She was withdrawn, depressed and couldn’t wake up in the mornings,”

I'm not casting aspersions but those symptoms can also be attributed to drug use.

27 posted on 12/05/2014 11:02:56 AM PST by AU72
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To: CatherineofAragon
Maybe, just maybe, they’ll wait for some facts to roll in next time, rather than clutching their pearls over an allegation.

We all said that same thing after The Duke Lacrosse Frame collapsed, but looks like the hope was misplaced.

28 posted on 12/05/2014 11:05:59 AM PST by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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To: C19fan
More and more looking like Duke Lacrosse Rape Case II.

Actually, it looks like what is happening to Cosby.

29 posted on 12/05/2014 11:07:50 AM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: C19fan

There was a gang rape at Rolling Stone?? Nitwits can’t even put a sentence together.


30 posted on 12/05/2014 11:08:40 AM PST by pabianice (LINE)
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To: Talisker
Rush just reported that RS has retracted the story and apologized.

They probably also have a new opening for a reporter.

31 posted on 12/05/2014 11:09:52 AM PST by AU72
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To: saleman

I think all fraternities were banned from campus for 1 year on the basis of this allegation.


32 posted on 12/05/2014 11:15:58 AM PST by Lorianne (fed pork, bailouts, gone taxmoney)
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To: Lorianne

That is what I remember reading.


33 posted on 12/05/2014 11:19:24 AM PST by wrench (Ebola is not a threat to the US. 0bama says so, and he would never lie..........)
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To: AU72

“I’m not casting aspersions but those symptoms can also be attributed to drug use.”

I wonder if she had a mental problem.


34 posted on 12/05/2014 11:22:04 AM PST by vladimir998
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To: AU72

Bi Polar disorder also starts to manifest about that age for many, and can present the same symptoms.


35 posted on 12/05/2014 11:23:05 AM PST by wrench (Ebola is not a threat to the US. 0bama says so, and he would never lie..........)
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To: abb

Yes, it’s likely too much to expect, no matter how many times this kind of thing happens.


36 posted on 12/05/2014 11:31:17 AM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: C19fan

Remember what was said in the past by the media, “It’s not if its true or not, but the seriousness of the charges”. Dan Rather.


37 posted on 12/05/2014 11:31:47 AM PST by jyro (French-like Democrats wave the white flag of surrender while we are winning)
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To: C19fan
Pres of UVA did put a halt to all Greek activity until the New Year.

So the homos all have to take cold showers together?

38 posted on 12/05/2014 11:38:43 AM PST by gr8eman (Bill Carson...meet Arch Stanton!)
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To: C19fan

Rape is where you stay away from a drinking/clothing/sex-innuendo situation and someone forces you anyway, without any come-on involved. Anything else is just being willingly in a risky situation and taking the hits as they come. CT behavior gets its just reward.


39 posted on 12/05/2014 11:38:44 AM PST by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: C19fan

White males fighting back? I must be dreaming.


40 posted on 12/05/2014 11:49:23 AM PST by Socon-Econ
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