The Washington Times determined "Drew"'s "telephone" and "Blackberry" numbers were in fact "Internet phone numbers that enable the user to make calls or send SMS text messages to telephones from a computer or iPad while creating the appearance that they are coming from a real phone". In May 2013, Jackie reported the sexual assault to dean and head of UVA's Sexual Misconduct Board, Nicole Eramo, who, according to a recap in New York magazine, offered three options: "file a criminal complaint with the police, file a complaint with the school, or face her attackers with Eramo present to tell them how she feels". And in this case, our judgement was wrong. "[118] It points out that Rolling Stone staff were initially unwilling to recognize these deficiencies and denied a need for policy changes. If this allegation alone hadn't triggered an all-out scramble at Rolling Stone for more corroboration, nothing would have. "[27] Four participants who were sitting on the steps to the Phi Kappa Psi house were arrested on trespassing charges for refusing to move when police officers asked them to leave. I offer our community's genuine gratitude for their devotion and perseverance in their service. [61] In the aftermath of the collapse of the story, Dana noted: "Right now, we're picking up the pieces. The report indicated the college students suffered disgust, emotion, and confusion. Had they done so, of course, they might have realized that some of the names in the account didn't exist, and that there was no party at all at the Phi Psi house on the night Miss Coakley claimed to have been assaulted at, she claimed, a party.Rolling Stone ran the story anyway, to their journalistic and financial detriment. "[172], Law & Order: SVU featured an episode titled "Devastating Story" in its 16th season whose plot was based on the UVA case. It was Nov. 19, 2014, when the world first learned about Jackie, a young woman who claimed in the pages of Rolling Stone that she had been gang-raped as part of a fraternity initiation. Mr. and Mrs. Howard E. Andrews - The Intermountain Copyright 2014-2021 by Robert SuttonLike what you read here? Jackie told the magazine she was raped by seven men in a frat-house after being taken there by her date Magazine said she identified them as Phi Kappa Psi but she then told the Washington Post. A Rape Hoax for Book Lovers - Taki's Magazine This isn't the first time Rolling Stone has published provably false stories. They went on to call for Rolling Stone to "fully and unconditionally retract its story and immediately remove the story from its website". In Erdely's story, Jackie tells her three friends the night of the alleged event that she was raped by seven men over a three-hour period while rolling on a mat of broken glass. "[126][127], Phi Kappa Psi's national headquarters released the following statement: "That Rolling Stone sought to turn fiction into fact is shamefulThe discredited article has done significant damage to the ability of the chapter's members to succeed in their educational pursuits and besmirched the character of undergraduate students at the University of Virginia who did not deserve the spotlight of the media." "[88], Emily Renda, the university's project coordinator for sexual misconduct, policy and prevention declared that "Rolling Stone played adjudicator, investigator and advocate and did a slipshod job at that. ", to become a weapon of revenge. Jackie requested that her assailants not be contacted, and Rolling Stone agreed. Erdely wrote that Randall was no longer friends with Jackie and, "citing his loyalty to his own frat, declined to be interviewed". In New York federal court, Rolling Stone wrapped up the last remaining piece of litigation emanating from its retracted 2014 article about a rape [of proven liar Jackie Coakley] at a University of Virginia campus fraternity. Obviously, they're older now and we are doing an . The Columbia Journalism Review called the story "this year's media-fail sweepstakes" and the Poynter Institute named it as the "Error of the Year" in journalism. . Teresa Sullivan, the president of UVa, promptly shut down all the fraternities and, bizarrely, the sororities as well (don't ask), in a "ready, fire, aim" response, without allowing even the Phi Psis the due process to point out all the inaccuracies that made the article suspect. 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Phi Psi members speak about impact of discredited gang rape allegations", "Rolling Stone apologises for Virginia rape story", "U-Va. board leader denounces 'drive-by journalism' of Rolling Stone's rape article", "Dean Coll and Dean Coronel Ltr from AW Groves March 6, 2015-2.pdf", "Here Are Some Big Things The Rolling Stone Story About Rape At UVA Got Right", "Prepared Remarks for Presidential Address on the University", "U.Va. Jackie Coakley Obituary (2019) - Portland, OR - The Oregonian - Legacy.com Charlottesville Police officially suspended their four-month investigation on March 23, 2015, based on lack of credible evidence. [131], One month after the publication of the Rolling Stone article, the Rector of the University of Virginia, George Keith Martin, accused the magazine of "drive-by journalism" when he stated, "Like a neighborhood thrown into chaos by drive-by violence, our tightly knit community has experienced the full fury of drive-by journalism in the 21st century. [16], Jackie's academic performance reportedly declined, and she became socially withdrawn due to emotional distress. Besides faulting the magazine and the reporter for publishing the article without doing due diligence, Eramo's attorneys assert in that the UVA student at the center of the piece a woman named Jackie Coakley is a "serial liar" who fabricated the assault in order to gain the attention of a . "[21][22], The next day, Phi Kappa Psi voluntarily suspended chapter activities at UVA for the duration of the investigation. One student protester told The Cavalier Daily: "I really hope the University takes this article and the protest movement as a sign that they need to be more transparent about the way they deal with sexual assault. Someone else kneels on her hair. [27] A student quoted in The Daily Progress said that men at a nearby bar were "quick to yell 'insults and slurs' at the protesters as they walked by". "[85][86] Robby Soave in Reason's Hit & Run Blog answered Bradley's query about why Erdely chose UVA over Vanderbilt. Prior to the alleged event, Jackie provided evidence of her relationship with "Drew" to her friends by supplying a phone number for "Drew", with whom Jackie's friends subsequently exchanged messages. [citation needed]. Eramo was awarded $3 million by a jury who concluded that Rolling Stone defamed her with actual malice,[11] and Rolling Stone settled the lawsuit with the fraternity for $1.65 million. [111] On April 5, 2015, Columbia's 12,000-word review of "A Rape on Campus" was published on both Rolling Stone's and the journalism school's websites. Now, that's no longer the case. [18][40][41] Sandra Menendez, a student who claimed to have been interviewed by Erdely but who was not directly quoted in the article, told CNN that she and others became uncomfortable after speaking with Erdely, concluding she had "an agenda". [32][33] Erdely defended her decision not to interview the accused by saying that the contact page on the fraternity's website "was pretty outdated". [168] On June 13, 2017, the lawsuit was settled for $1.65 million. The Charlottesville Police Department investigation confirms that far from being callous, our staff members are diligent and devoted in supporting and caring for students. ", "Rolling Stone publisher: U.Va. So where is good old Jackie Coakley these days? The failure encompassed reporting, editing, editorial supervision and fact-checking. 'Not An Employee': Hospital Blows Holes In Rolling Stone Story [68], On October 24, 2016, in a video deposition, Jackie said, "I stand by the account I gave Rolling Stone. It was prepared by Steve Coll, the dean of Columbia's journalism school; Sheila Coronel, the dean of academic affairs; and Derek Kravitz, a graduate school researcher. It's hard to imagine a more flagrant violation of the UVA Honor Code than Jackie Coakley's slanderous hoax that she repeatedly perpetuated from age 18 through 20. In an interview with The New York Times, he called her, "a really expert fabulist storyteller", and added, "obviously there is something here that is untruthful, and something sits at her doorstep. "[105], On January 12, 2015, the University of Virginia reinstated the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity after the police investigation concluded that no incident had occurred at the fraternity. The media commentators noted that the claims of a rape culture's existence on campuses was not supported by U.S. government statistics or other measures. And for the next three hours she's brutally raped and beaten, with Drew and another upperclassman supposedly shouting out instructions to the pledges, referring to Jackie as 'it'." [169], A further lawsuit by a number of members of the fraternity was greenlighted by a court of appeals on September 19, 2017, after originally being dismissed by a lower court in June 2016. In the Columbia Journalism Review, Bill Grueskin called the story "a messthinly sourced, full of erroneous assumptions, and plagued by gaping holes in the reporting". "[74][75] Lauren Kling of the Poynter Institute criticized Rolling Stone for "blaming [the] source" instead of taking ownership of their own errors. [24] "[69][70] Around the same time, WCAV of Charlottesville, Virginia, published the audio of Jackie's 2014 statements to Erdely. appears willing to take her to task, either in a civil suit (Rolling Stone might want to think about that) or in a criminal case, given that she perpetrated a massive fraud with some pretty serious consequences and material damages. to see all of them, at robertsutton.substack.com. "[151], National Review columnist Jonah Goldberg has called for Phi Kappa Psi to sue Rolling Stone, while at least one legal expert has opined that there is a high likelihood of "civil lawsuits by the fraternity members or by the fraternity itself against the magazine and maybe even some university officials". ", Also within the first day following publication, Phi Kappa Psi's fraternity house at UVA was vandalized with spray-painted graffiti that read "suspend us", "UVA Center for Rape Studies", and "Stop raping people". Why no Honor Code trial of Jackie Coakley in her Haven Monahan hoax The UVA student, identified only as "Jackie" by the magazine, had been taken to a party by a fellow student, hosted at UVA's Phi Kappa Psi fraternity during 2012. and that there was no party at all at the Phi Psi house on the night Miss Coakley claimed to have been assaulted at, she claimed, a party. For the first time since 2002, applications to the university dropped. After Settlement, The Rolling Stone Rape Hoax Saga Is Officially Over Jackie's account generated much media attention, and UVA President Teresa Sullivan suspended all fraternities. Emails Show The Moment That Rolling Stone Reporter Realized The Source [100], In Erdely's story, the rape was supposed to have occurred during a party at Phi Kappa Psi as part of a pledging ritual. Journalist publishes alleged name and photo of UVA rape victim [17][20], Within hours of the article's publication, UVA president Teresa Sullivan had called the governor's chief of staff and the Charlottesville police chief to start preparing a response. 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Jackie Coakley: Accuser At Center Of False 'Rolling Stone' Rape Story [159] On March 30, 2016, The Washington Post reported that Jackie's lawyers requested the April deposition be cancelled, to avoid having her "revisit her sexual assault". "[90] Writing in Politico two days after the "story fell apart", Julia Horowitz, deputy editor of the university's campus newspaper, described the feeling among students: "The campusrelatively oversaturated with emotion after a semester of significant traumafeels as if it is on stand-by, poised in anticipation of where the next torrent of news will take us. 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Rolling Stone LLC, No. [25], UVA's student newspaper The Cavalier Daily described mixed reactions from the student body, stating: "For some, the piece is an unfounded attack on our school; for others, it is a recognition of a harsh reality; and for what I suspect is a large majority of us, it falls somewhere in between. "Under the scenario cited by Erdely", Wemple wrote, "the Phi Kappa Psi members are not just criminal sexual-assault offenders, they're criminal sexual-assault conspiracists, planners, long-range schemers. She said her initial reaction was surprise and "a certain air of disbelief" because during her 44-minute interview for the story, Erdely never brought up Jackie or asked about any of the allegations made in the article. [164] The lawsuit was settled on April 11, 2017. [53][54][55], Initially, Erdely stood by her story, stating: "I am convinced that it could not have been done any other way, or any better. It was later revealed Erdely had not interviewed any of the men accused of the rape. "[52] According to news articles covering lawsuits resulting from the Rolling Stone article, Jackie concocted the Haven Monahan persona in a catfishing scheme directed at Duffin, who had not responded to romantic overtures that Jackie had directed at him. And no one, from a university president on down, or on up, gets the notion that due process for the accused is actually a core principle of our justice system, to be applied before punishment is meted out. Some students "actually had to leave the room while they were reading [the article] because they were so upset." It has since been reported that Jackie may have invented portions of the story in an unsuccessful attempt to win the affections of a fellow student in whom she had a romantic interest. [12] In light of the findings, Erik Wemple of The Washington Post pronounced the story "a complete crock". Are you. [157], On May 12, 2015, UVA associate dean Nicole Eramo, chief administrator for handling sexual assault issues at the school, filed a $7.5 million defamation lawsuit in Charlottesville Circuit Court against Rolling Stone and Erdely, claiming damage to her reputation and emotional distress. The trio also sent text messages to a phone number Jackie said was the mobile phone of her date and were surprised that the owner of the phone number responded primarily with flattering messages about Randall, whom Jackie was romantically interested in. [15] For anonymity, Erdely only used Jackie's first name and gave pseudonyms to other students discussed in the story. The bride is the daughter of the late Norman and Elsie Miles Armstrong of Pickens and stepmother, the late Nell Bennett Armstrong. Wenner, who was reportedly "furious" at Erdely's story, declined to accept the resignation. 2) She just made it a million times harder for real rape victims to come forward because people are less likely to believe them. After both the Charlottesville Police press conference and Columbia University's investigative report, UVA President Teresa Sullivan released the following statement: Rolling Stone's story, 'A Rape on Campus', did nothing to combat sexual violence, and it damaged serious efforts to address the issue. Haven claims that Jackie is ill and frequently hospitalized. But I have a pretty good notion that she violated some serious criminal statutes; after all, participating in a fraud involving the mails (a magazine) or wire (somewhere along the line) is a Federal issue.
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