UVA Rape Case: Was "Jackie" Raped?

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Rolling Stone did a story on a University of Virginia student, “Jackie,” who says she was brutally gang-raped at Phi Kappa Psi frat party two years ago. Once other news outlets starting reporting on the story, discrepancies became apparent in “Jackie’s” retelling of the attack. Rolling Stone’s managing editor Will Dana put out a statement, taking full responsibility for the lack of fact checking in their published article. Dana said, “Because of the sensitive nature of ‘Jackie’s’ story, we decided to honor her request not to contact the man who she claimed orchestrated the attack on her nor any of the men who she claimed participated in the attack for fear of retaliation against her.”

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He continued, “In trying to be sensitive to the unfair shame and humiliation many women feel after a sexual assault, we made a judgment – the kind of judgment reporters and editors make every day. We should have not made this agreement with “Jackie” and we should have worked harder to convince her that the truth would have been better served by getting the other side of the story. These mistakes are on Rolling Stone, not on ‘Jackie.’ We apologize to anyone who was affected by the story and we will continue to investigate the events of that evening.”

This was a very responsible apology on Rolling Stone’s behalf for neglecting to tell the other side of “Jackie’s” story, however, it was rather irresponsible for the reporter, Sabrina Rubin Erdely to only get one side to this story. Within the blurred details of “Jackie’s” story are her wrongly identifying the fraternity, whether or not her attacker was a part of said frat, what time she left the location where she was attacked, the name of her attacker and whether or not he attended UVA at the time and the photo she provided of her attacker was a high school acquaintance.