Posted on 12/12/2014 8:18:28 AM PST by outpostinmass2
"CBS This Morning" has now spoken with the three friends of the victim of an alleged gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity house who were mentioned in a Rolling Stone article. The magazine has admitted it had mistakes in the story.
The accounts the friends gave to "CBS This Morning" were similar to each other, but very different from that of the victim, "Jackie," reports CBS News correspondent Julianna Goldman. The article said the friends saw and spoke to Jackie the night of the alleged assault.
Alex, a third year student at UVA who asked we only use his first name, said he first read the piece not realizing he'd be a central figure in the Rolling Stone article.
"I, you know, slowly dawned on me that this was, you know, in fact, the story Jackie, you know, similar to the story Jackie had told me in some ways," Alex said.
Alex realized he was the "Andy" in the article identified as a friend of Jackie's who saw her after the incident in 2012.
In the article, Jackie is described as "shaking" and "bloody" after the alleged attack. The article says that, instead of seeking help, her friends "launched into a heated discussion about the social price of reporting Jackie's rape," fearing it might damage their reputations. Alex told "CBS This Morning" that account is false. He said while he's not hurt by the account, he is "a little confused."
"I mean, Jackie and I aren't really close. And I know that she, you know, is a very good storyteller. ... I wish I knew sort of why she decided to portray everybody who, you know, tried to help her as somehow horrible, sort of 'Animal House' frat boys. But, you know, I'm not sure," Alex said.
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What happened to UVa? It used to be a good school...
Party city.
And fragile feelings after rejection?
You know, Jackie’s, you know, story is, you know, falling about, like, you know, real fast. You know, third year Alex’s parents, should, you know, yank him out of UVA because, you know, they’re wasting their, you know, money.
Just an “isolated incident” of false claims.
Just like Duke, Tawana Brawley, Lena Dunham are “isolated incidents”.
Maybe they should just shut colleges and universities down because they are such dangerous places for women - just saying.
Commies run it and Charlottesville.
The girl got friend zoned by a hot guy she was crushing on.
Voila, tearful angry rape story.
Damaging real rape victims after the idiots at Rolling Stone published it without investigation.
When the President cited the 1 in 5 number of women who are sexually assaulted on college campuses I had the same thoughts. Who would put their daughters in a place like that much less pay for it. What person would want to spend four years in a place willingly with odds like that. That number is something you see in prison. On its face it seems preposterous.
The FBI stats show that almost all rapes are committed by serial rapists. That is one person committing dozens of rapes. This is true on college campuses and it was true with the Catholic rapist priests. No one wants to write a story about that though. There have 2 recent arrest of serial rapists at UVA. Neither of them were students at UVA nor where they a member of a fraternity.
Ouch.
The arctic fringes of the Friend Zone.
DC comics Phantom Zone has got nothing on that.
Sort of why: girl's a self centred bitch
My daughter is in college. She knows which frat houses are the roofie houses.
The fact she knows that says something about them. And she grew up with parents that are Greeks and she tailgates with our frat bros so she is not opposed to Greek life.
It’s just simply a fact of life now.
Fact of life that women are raped at high rates at college? Why do pay to have your daughter in that kind of environment. And why aren’t these assaults reported and those Greeks investigated. Or are they just stories everyone has heard.
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