National Organization For Women Defends Rolling Stone Gang Rape [18] In Rolling Stone's version, Jackie's friends discouraged her from going to the hospital to protect her reputation and because Andy and Randall planned to rush fraternities and worried their association with Jackie might hurt their chances if she reported it. washingtonexaminer.com Borscht Belt Museum in the works in Ellenville | WAMC Jury selection starts June 4. On November 19, 2014, Rolling Stone published the now retracted article by Sabrina Erdely titled "A Rape on Campus" about an alleged gang rape of a University of Virginia (UVA) student, Jackie Coakley. A few days later, hundreds of people participated in a protest and march organized by UVA faculty as "part of a series of responses to the recently published Rolling Stone article". Well, she is married and is now "Jackie McGovern", living her life, la-la-la, scot-free. "A Rape on Campus" is a retracted, defamatory Rolling Stone magazine article[2][3][4] written by Sabrina Erdely and originally published on November 19, 2014, that describes a purported group sexual assault at the University of Virginia (UVA) in Charlottesville, Virginia. At the end of the day, UVA's incredible story fit Erdely's narrative better than Vanderbilt's credible one. [48], Per records released by Yahoo under subpoena in 2016, Haven Monahan's e-mail account was created from inside the University of Virginia "only one day before that same account sent an email to Jackie's friend Ryan Duffin" in 2012. Judge: Jackie Coakley not covered by patient-counselor privilege in [139], National sorority leaders ordered UVA sororities to not interact with fraternities during Boys Bid Night when fraternities admit new pledges. "[43] Jackie forwarded messages from "Monahan", and "Monahan" exchanged messages with Jackie's friends, including sending a picture of "himself" directly to Ryan Duffin. The woman, called "Jackie" in the article, cited PTSD as the cause for not remembering details of her assault, which was described as a gang rape in the article by Sabrina Erdely. Later media analysis of photos Jackie showed her friends of her date demonstrated that they were pictures taken from the public social media profile of a former high-school classmate of Jackie, who was not a student of the University of Virginia, did not live in the Charlottesville area, and was out of state at an athletic competition the day of the alleged attack. The published story glossed over the gaps in the magazine's reporting by using pseudonyms and by failing to state where important information had come from. [66], Spokesmen for both Wenner[67] and Dana said that Erdely would continue to write articles for Rolling Stone. I have argued in these pages that the FBI needs to go hard against the Clinton Foundation for just that reason, lest the next powerful person or couple use a phony-baloney charitable entity to disguise an influence-peddling scam. They said that no pledges were resident in the fraternity at the time Erdely claimed. [37], The Washington Post reporters later interviewed the accuser at the center of Erdely's story and two of the friends that Rolling Stone said she had met on the night of the incident. A return to sanity is called for before more wreckage occurs. Prior to the publication of the story, early-action applications were up 7.5 percent with 16,187 applicants. ", "Why Did Rolling Stone Writer Choose UVA, Not Vanderbilt, for Gang Rape Expos? After Settlement, The Rolling Stone Rape Hoax Saga Is Officially Over The same account was accessed on March 18, 2016, from inside ALTG, Stein, Mitchell, Muse & Cipollone LLP, Jackie's legal firm. Search Results Jackie Coakley The police were also unable to corroborate Jackie's allegations that two other sexual assaults had taken place at the fraternity house or that she had been assaulted and struck to the face with a bottle in a separate incident. [17] The accuser told the Post that she had felt "manipulated" by Erdely, and claimed she asked Erdely not to quote her in the article, a request the journalist denied. According to Goldberg, "It is an account of a sober, well-planned gang rape by seven fraternity pledges at the direction of two members. Jackie Coakley can't hide her secrets any longer. A woman named Jackie Coakley (now McGovern), who was a student at UVa at the time, had an issue with a boy who was not paying her enough attention, or didn't see her as a romantic interest, or something like that. How honest are the intentions of Cosby's accusers? This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. In September 2013, Eramo connected Jackie with Emily Renda, a UVA staff member, recent graduate and leader in the college's sexual assault support group One Less. And in this case, our judgement was wrong. In today's 24-hour news cycle, we all have a tendency to rush to judgment without having all of the facts in front of us. "[94], On December 8, 2014, ABC News reported that the person quoted by Erdely as alleging a rape at Phi Kappa Psi had retained an attorney. Oh, the earth spun a little slower, or faster metaphors fail me when it comes to stuff like this. Milton Berle, Jackie Mason, Joan Rivers, Jerry Seinfeld got a start up here, Woody Allen, the list goes on. 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'." 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. [57] A subsequent tweet sent by Rolling Stone managing editor Will Dana offered further comment on Erdely's story: "[W]e made a judgementthe kind of judgement reporters and editors make every day. "[79], On December 6, The Washington Post's media critic Erik Wemple called for all Rolling Stone staff who were involved with the story to be fired. [81], Journalist Caitlin Flanagan, who wrote an expos in The Atlantic titled "The Dark Power of Fraternities: A yearlong investigation of Greek houses", told On the Media that she was concerned that Erdely's article could inhibit reforms of the Greek system. [161] On November 4, 2016, after 20 hours of deliberation,[162] a jury consisting of eight women and two men found Rolling Stone, the magazine's publisher and Erdely liable for defaming Eramo. After other journalists investigated the article's claims and found significant discrepancies, Rolling Stone issued multiple apologies for the story. Now, that's no longer the case. "[118] It points out that Rolling Stone staff were initially unwilling to recognize these deficiencies and denied a need for policy changes. Both of those peoplewho attend different colleges and bear no resemblance to the description Jackie gave of her attackersaid in interviews that they knew of Jackie but did not know her well and did not have contact with her after she left for the University of Virginia. Such false depictions reinforce the reluctance sexual assault victims already feel about reporting their experience, lest they be doubted or ignored. However, that statement seemed to contradict an earlier assertion the accuser had made to The Washington Post, in which she stated: "I know it was Phi [Kappa] Psi, because a year afterward, my friend pointed out the building to me. At the party, Jackie alleged in the article, her date led her to a bedroom where she was gang raped by several fraternity members as part of a fraternity initiation ritual. [59], The New York Observer stated that Rolling Stone deputy managing editor Sean Woods (the editor directly responsible for the article)[60] tendered his resignation to the magazine's owner, Jann Wenner. So where is good old Jackie Coakley these days? "[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". If this allegation alone hadn't triggered an all-out scramble at Rolling Stone for more corroboration, nothing would have. [28] Community members offered suggestions for immediate steps administration could take to implement preventive measures and address safety concerns regarding sexual assault. He eventually claims he met her in the hospital. Please. [156], Additionally, the Poynter Institute named the story as the "Error of the Year" in journalism. A Rape on Campus - Wikipedia While many began questioning whether publicly or privately the validity of her story almost immediately, Rolli. "[120], In response to these statements, Megan McArdle wrote in Bloomberg View, "Rolling Stone can't even apologize right. [143], Several commentators hypothesized that allegations of rape against Bill Cosby, which surfaced at the same time as the publication of "A Rape on Campus", would be less damaging to the comedian as a result of the seeming collapse of the Rolling Stone story. [16], Jackie's academic performance reportedly declined, and she became socially withdrawn due to emotional distress. They went on to call for Rolling Stone to "fully and unconditionally retract its story and immediately remove the story from its website". [117] The report also states that the article misled readers with quotes where attribution was unclear and used pseudonyms inappropriately as a way to address these shortcomings. [140], Due to increased social skepticism about the prevalence of sexual assault created by the unraveling of Erdely's Rolling Stone report, the Military Justice Improvement Act would be "much harder" to enact, according to Margaret Carlson,[141] and ultimately did not pass in that congressional session. Columbia published Groves' letter, where he contrasts video[133] of his statements to the University of Virginia Board of Visitors in September 2014 with the text of Erdely's published article, which differ significantly,[citation needed] and concludes that Erdely's article contains "bias and malice". [46] Slate reported that the Post account strongly implied Jackie's tale of rape had been fabricated in an attempt to win over "Randall", who had previously rebuffed her romantic advances. 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. Oh, the earth spun a little slower, or faster metaphors fail me when it comes to stuff like this.At any rate, you surely remember. Jackie was born in Milwaukee, Wis., but spent most of. After the date, they allegedly went to a party at his fraternity house, where he brought her to a dark bedroom upstairs and "a heavy person jumps on top of her. Jackie Coakley Obituary (2019) - Portland, OR - The Oregonian - Legacy.com Fraternity officials also noted that, prior to the Rolling Stone story, there had never been a criminal investigation or allegation of sexual assault against an undergraduate member of the chapter. 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. [1][5] The article claimed that a UVA student Jackie Coakley had been taken to a party hosted by UVA's Phi Kappa Psi fraternity by a fellow student. [60][117], The Columbia report also found a failure in journalistic standards by either not making contact with the people they were publishing derogatory information about, or when they did, by not providing enough context for people to be able to offer a meaningful response. 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Sponsorship and interview inquiries cheerfully welcomed at bsutton@alum.mit.edu. 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. "[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. [60] Wenner laid blame for the magazine's failures on Jackie. I used to not think this way ~8 years ago, but there have just been too . New evidence submitted in an ongoing lawsuit against Rolling Stone suggest that the legal team of Jackie Coakley, the University of Virginia (UVA) student responsible for a massive gang rape hoax, has been withholding evidence from an ongoing lawsuit. [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. [164] The lawsuit was settled on April 11, 2017. "[116] Rolling Stone managing editor Will Dana was also cited on the Columbia report: "It's not like I think we need to overhaul our process, and I don't think we need to necessarily institute a lot of new ways of doing things. Said the filing: "Rolling Stone and Erdely's highly defamatory and false statements about Dean Eramo were not the result of an innocent mistake. What distinguished the UVA story from anything else ever reported was that the assault did not involve drugs or alcohol, required elaborate planning, and involved so many people that the perps could not have reasonably expected to get away with ita confluence of factors that caused the allegations to have substantially more in common with ones that ultimately proved to be false, like the Duke lacrosse case and Tawana Brawley incident. Jun 8, 2013 Jackie Coakley and Howard E. Andrews were married April 13 in Phillips Chapel Church at Jimtown with the Rev. We dont know where you are. I'm starting to expect more and more people are just simply lying about this stuff now. [160] However, on April 2, 2016, the judge denied the motions and ordered Jackie to appear for a deposition on April 6, to be held at a secret location. . After the Charlottesville Police made their official report, Wemple said: "What is left of the Rolling Stone piece? [60][117] However, Coco McPherson, who is in charge of Rolling Stone's fact-checking operation, said, "I one-hundred percent do not think that the policies that we have in place failed. Jan. 9, 1954 - June 5, 2019 Jackie Coakley, beloved daughter, granddaughter, sister, aunt and friend, passed away June 5, 2019 in Portland. There's a new piece (usually three) from Bob every weekday here on Substack. We all remember the tumult at the University of Virginia five years back. ONLY FOR REPUBLICANS. We must, apparently, not give out the names of accusers. "[77] Merlan had also labeled journalist Richard Bradley's doubts about the article a "giant ball of shit". The report indicated the college students suffered disgust, emotion, and confusion. [152][153] ABC News has reported that the accuser, Jackie, herself might be sued. 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. 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. Nor do I think her characterization of my interview was fair. Prior to the date, they attempted to locate him in a student directory and were unable to find evidence that he existed. [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. Rolling Stone Trial: UVA Jackie Invented Rumor Her Friend Had Syphilis 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. "[158] In February 2016, the judge in the lawsuit ordered Jackie to appear at a deposition on April 5, 2016. [13][14] 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. 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. Jackie Coakley is a criminal and she needs to spend at least 20 years in jail, for two main reasons. I offer our community's genuine gratitude for their devotion and perseverance in their service. [142] Froma Harrop issued a call for media outlets to begin to publicly name rape accusers, explaining that "reporters and editors should expand their sensitivities to include the reputations of those accused, not always justly". Eramo filed a $7.5 million defamation lawsuit against Rolling Stone and Erdely last year. You Can Finally Read UVA Jackie's Bizarre Catfishing Texts Rolling Stone Sued by Fraternity Named in Fake UVA Rape Story Virginia sorority members called the restrictions "unnecessary and patronizing". Erdely said that Jackie regained consciousness alone in the fraternity after 3 a.m. and fled the building blood-spattered and bruised, phoning three friends for help. [16], According to Los Angeles Times columnist Jonah Goldberg's summary of the story, on September 28, 2012, Jackie, a freshman at UVA, had a date with a Phi Kappa Psi member "Drew", a junior at UVA. to see all of them, at robertsutton.substack.com. Jackie's account generated much media attention, and UVA President Teresa Sullivan suspended all fraternities. When asked if Dana's departure was influenced by the debacle surrounding Erdely's article, the magazine's publisher responded that "many factors go into a decision like this". . "[74][75] Lauren Kling of the Poynter Institute criticized Rolling Stone for "blaming [the] source" instead of taking ownership of their own errors. [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.
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