Posted on 03/23/2015 12:33:13 PM PDT by outpostinmass2
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. — Police here say they have found no evidence to support claims in a Rolling Stone article that a University of Virginia student was gang raped at a campus fraternity in September 2012, noting that months of investigation led detectives to discredit several claims about the alleged assault.
Police Chief Timothy J. Longo on Monday afternoon said the police department had multiple meetings with “Jackie” — the woman who claimed she was gang raped at a fraternity party — and that she declined to speak about the alleged incident or provide any information about it. Numerous lines of inquiry yielded evidence that the fraternity did not have a party the night of the alleged attack, and police were unable to find anyone matching the description of the alleged attacker.
“We’re not able to conclude to any substantive degree that an incident occurred at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house or any other fraternity house, for that matter,” Longo said at a news conference. “That doesn’t mean something terrible didn’t happen to Jackie … we’re just not able to gather sufficient facts to determine what that is.”
The announcement came after a five-month investigation spurred by allegations of a brutal fraternity house gang-rape described in a 9,000-word magazine account that went viral online in November. The Rolling Stone report unraveled under scrutiny, as the accuser’s version of events was publicly challenged by her friends, members of the fraternity and sexual assault advocates on campus. After Washington Post reports revealed flaws in the account, Rolling Stone’s editors backed away from it.
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Police also investigated the name for an alleged attacker — Haven Monahan – a name that Jackie gave her friends as the person she was going on a date with that night. That name that did not match anyone at the fraternity or at the University of Virginia, and police were unable to determine if such a person exists.
Late last year, The Post pursued information about that same name, which ultimately appeared to be a combination of names belonging to people Jackie interacted with while in high school in Northern Virginia, both of them swimmers. Both of those people – who attend different colleges and bear no resemblance to the description Jackie gave of her attacker – said in interviews that they knew of Jackie but did not know her well and certainly did not have contact with her after she left for U-Va.
The Post also obtained a photograph that was purportedly of Monahan and determined that that photograph was of a third person, a student who attended high school with Jackie. That other person – also a swimmer – is a student at a different college out of state and was competing in an athletic event on the date of the alleged attack. He said he had not been in Charlottesville for at least six years and never had any sort of a relationship with Jackie. He expressed shock that his photograph was used in connection with the allegations and asked not to be identified for his safety.
Would it be racist to compare this accuser to the BOY who cried wolf?
The hunt for Haven Monahan must continue. How else can crazy, false-rape accusing coeds ever feel safe?
It didn't yet...when she get sued it will!
Rolling Stones track record is abysmal. Sure has been a lot of lies coming out of them lately.
Well, you know what they say. A Rolling Stone gathers no facts.
And the news report is “just because we haven’t found any evidence doesn’t mean something terrible didn’t happen.” Fox Radio News
Ah. So the story was fake, but accurate. Is that what we're saying?
Jackie should be taken into protective custody—For her own well-being, of course.
Oh....well......sorry. And sorry about the vandalism to the house.
What do we know about Jacki?
1) She not only made up her attacker’s persona as a composite of a set of high school crushes, she actually assumed and inhabited the identity and texted with her ‘friends’ (a.k.a. catfishing) from the fake identity -— all in the futile attempt to catch and hijack the romantic attention of the unwitting boy she’d set her sights on.
2) Jacki’s rape counselor, Emily Renda, gave testimony before the US Senate using, in part, Jacki’s fake story. That testimony likely impacted the promulgating of Federal Title IX policies which in turn are being used to ambush male students in kangaroo hearings at many schools. see for one example, Washington and Lee, where charges were accelerated once the Rolling Stone article came out (but before it was disproven). By the way, Emily Renda also claims to have been raped and later taunted and assaulted by fellow UVA students for “speaking out” in a highly improbable story.
3)Jacki is just one point of presence for this phenomena. UVA College President Sullivan, in her first statements on the Jacki matter (before it was discredited) mentioned a UVA transfer student who had been raped — turns out that is also a false charge - the story is here: Silicon Valley Adventuress Plays the Rape Card at Stanford and UVA http://www.unz.com/isteve/silicon-valley-adventuress-plays-the-rape-card-at-stanford-and-uva/
4) In many of the stories about UVA a high-profile charge at Columbia University was described — now proven to be yet another false charge.
So - there is an epidemic under way at college campuses — just not the epidemic it was set out to be.
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