It's not perjury if it's just about sex.
Posted on 12/12/2014 11:36:58 AM PST by outpostinmass2
One of the student survivors I worked with, Jenna*, was gang-raped by five fraternity men early in her freshman year. Despite the severity of the assault and injuries she sustained, Jenna still experienced a feeling of personal responsibility. Looking for affirmation, she sought out peers and told her story. Sadly, each and every one of the friends she reached out to responded with varying denials of her experience; these responses worsened her feelings of self-blame – that she must be confused because that fraternity “is full of great guys”; that she must have made them think she was “down for that”; questioning how no one else at the party could have heard what was going on if she was telling the truth; or discouraging her from seeking help because “you don’t want to be one of those girls who has a reputation” for reporting “that kind of thing.” These statements haunted Jenna. She told me that they made her feel crazy, and made her question whether her own understanding of the rape was legitimate. Survivors who receive disaffirming responses to initial disclosures are more likely to experience negative mental health consequences as wellii. These negative and victim-blaming responses from her peers reinforced Jenna’s sense of fault, and prevented her from coming forward to the University’s administration or the Police. When she finally sought assistance from the Dean of Students’ office, after struggling and nearly failing out of her classes for two semesters, it was difficult for the university to conduct a meaningful investigation because much of the evidence had been lost, and witnesses were more difficult to locate.
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Emily J. Renda
Undergraduate student, College of Arts & Sciences Chair, Sexual Assault Leadership Council University of Virginia
Emily Renda is a fourth-year student in the University of Virginia’s College of Arts & Sciences. She is in the Sociology Distinguished Major Program, and recently completed her thesis, which focuses on the challenges related to sexual assault adjudication on college campuses. Renda is chair of the Sexual Assault Leadership Council at the University and serves on the executive board for the sexual assault peer educator group One Less. She has worked all four years with Take Back the Night, and she interns with the University’s Women's Center Sexual and Domestic Violence Services. She recently served on the Inter-Sorority Council as Women's Concerns Chair, and participated in the Jefferson Public Citizens grant-based research program. In December, she was selected, through a highly competitive process, to be a special intern in President Sullivan’s office for the remainder of the academic year.
No credibility.
Yes but it is a fake story told before the Senate. Perjury.
It's not perjury if it's just about sex.
I forgot about that.
Don’t forget but the Senate is using the fake story to decide on letting colleges kick out students without due process.
I think it's quite likely the same person and story. Their connection is referenced in the story. Wouldn't be surprised if Renda is where Erdely got the contact.
From the Rolling Stone article:
"'When did it happen to you?' Emily Renda asked Jackie as they sat for coffee at the outdoor Downtown Mall in the fall of 2013…"
What is most interesting about this testimony, in the wake of the Rolling Story implosion, is the matter of fact presentation of the gang rape as “fact.” With far-reaching decisions supposedly to be made by Congress based on that “fact.”
It’s also interesting that Ms. Renda has apparently built her entire life around her claimed (and quite possibly real) rape. It obviously dominates her student and social life, even her thesis. Does anybody want to be that when she leaves college she will be hired in some capacity dealing with rape?
How often do mugging victims or people who are defrauded build the rest of their lives around their victimization?
For the love of Pete ladies. If you are raped call the freakin COPS!
If you read Renda’s testimony her whole point is to have colleges circumvent the law and become judge and jury in the are of sexual assault. How can that be good at all. Also Renda is setting herself up in a career in victimolgy which seems to pay well.
http://news.virginia.edu/content/rendas-work-while-uva-students-changing-lives
Look at the people she is hanging around with
How about if you are attacked by 5-7 men in a dark room on top of broken glass. And these attackers claim that this is their annual initiation which means next year they will do it again and have been doing it for sometime. And then this story is repeated before a Senate committee and no one calls the police. It also is repeated before rallies on school campus over and over again told to multiple people.
Actually the above story has its related similar activity of being multiply raped of your intellectual property by a corporation, then discharged as a disloyal employee when your virginity in this area is no longer saleable, and you have been coached to think your lack of allegiance was your fault.
And go to the ER. Immediately.
There are lot of interesting connections with Emily Renda at the center.
I hope the frat hires a really good attorney and investigators. There’s a lot of dirt there.
“It was really wonderful to get the opportunity to have President Sullivan’s feedback and input on our research through the semester, and to get a sense from her about the personal and institutional challenges of serving as a president,” said Renda, who also participated in the president’s national conference in February, “Dialogue at UVA: Sexual Misconduct Among College Students.”
Emily Renda, U.Va.’s project coordinator for sexual misconduct, policy and prevention, and a member of the governor’s Task Force on Combating Campus Sexual Violence, said she didn’t question Jackie’s credibility because that wasn’t her role. Renda knows Jackie and also was interviewed for the Rolling Stone article.
“Rolling Stone played adjudicator, investigator and advocate - and did a slipshod job at that,” added Renda, a May graduate who said she was raped her freshman year at the school. “As a result Jackie suffers, the young men in Phi Kappa Psi suffered, and survivors everywhere can unfairly be called into question.”
The gall, she told the same story before congress months earlier.
So she is the Hillary of tomorrow.
I have an idea that will get me flamed or worse.
If you are raped and do not go for a DNA test within 48 hours and report it to the police you have no case.
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