Gary Pleasants, Phi Kappa Psi has been cleared; "We found no basis to believe that an incident occurred at that fraternity, so there's no reason to keep them suspended. Select the best result to find their address, phone number, relatives, and public records. You all know where she is. Minutes later, Duffin says that because of legal concerns, it would be best if he stopped talking with Coakley. [email protected] "[104], 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. 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. Sponsorship and interview inquiries cheerfully welcomed at bsutton@alum.mit.edu. The story was heart-breaking, but ultimately appears to be proved untrue. Looking for Jacqueline Mcgovern online? Jackie Mcgovern. The Columbia report cited the fact-checker: "I pushed. 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. [59][116] 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. Virginia Attorney-General Mark Herring said he found it "deeply troubling that Rolling Stone magazine is now publicly walking away from its central storyline in its bombshell report on the University of Virginia without correcting what errors its editors believe were made. [59][97] At the subsequent trial, one of Jackie's friends the night of the alleged attack testified that their friendships eventually dwindled because of Jackie's "tendency to fabricate things". Where are the Feds? 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'." At the end of the day, UVA's incredible story fit Erdely's narrative better than Vanderbilt's credible one. In January, Eramos lawyers successfully forced Coakley to turn over text messages, emails and other communications pertaining to the case. [38], The two friends confirmed to the Post that they remembered meeting Jackie on the night of the incident, that she was distraught but not visibly injured or bloodied, and that details she provided then were different from those in the Rolling Stone article. The withheld evidence offers strong evidence of what has long been suspected: That . [59] Wenner laid blame for the magazine's failures on Jackie. The Charlottesville Police Department investigation confirms that far from being callous, our staff members are diligent and devoted in supporting and caring for students. Well, she is married and is now "Jackie McGovern", living her life, la-la-la, scot-free. "[26] "[129] Phi Kappa Psi members received death threats and the president of the university postponed all events related to its fraternities and sororities until mid-January 2015. The details have not been disclosed, but at least two members of the fraternity will be the beneficiary of the settlement. "[79] An editorial in the Boston Herald declared: "a fifth-grader would've done some basic fact-checking before potentially ruining men's lives" before repeating the call for the firing of Rolling Stone staff involved in the story. The original story was told by a young woman named Jackie Coakley identified only as Jackie in the article who said she was taken on a date by a handsome member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity at the University of Virginia, and then led back to the fraternity house where several other members of the fraternity violently gang-raped her on top of a broken glass table. [139], 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,[140] and ultimately did not pass in that congressional session. The story portrayed University staff members as manipulative and callous toward victims of sexual assault. But it wont be to you if you keep acting the way you do towards her. She filed a lawsuit in May 2015, and the suit eventually went to trial. 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. The case is actually similar to that of Jackie Coakley, who told students and staff at the University of Virginia and a reporter for Rolling Stone that she had been gang-raped as part of a fraternity initiation. A return to sanity is called for before more wreckage occurs. Jackie requested that her assailants not be contacted, and Rolling Stone agreed. And Coakley, the woman who made up the story that led to tarnished reputations of her alma mater and an innocent fraternity, never saw any sort of punishment except for lies being debunked in the national media. Kiss'n Santa by Jacki McGovern. But several days later, once a Washington Post story had poked massive holes in Coakleys story, Duffin turns more hostile. They arrived "minutes later" and found her on the corner next to the building. Its been over a year sinceRolling Stones big story on an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia was exposed as a hoax, but the public has long lacked specific details about how UVA student Jackie Coakley concocted her wildly false story. I have no assumption to make, as to whether she has not been sued because she is a shallow pocket, incapable of affording a large settlement in a civil suit. Therefore, the criminal investigation was suspended on March 23. "[171], Law & Order: SVU featured an episode titled "Devastating Story" in its 16th season whose plot was based on the UVA case. [156], 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. [25] A few hours after the incident, several news groups received an anonymous letter claiming responsibility for the vandalism and demanding that the university implement harsher consequences for sexual assault (mandatory expulsion), conduct a review of all fraternities on campus, the resignation of Nicole Eramo, and the implementation of harm reduction policies at fraternity parties. Rolling Stone falsely accused some University of Virginia students of heinous, criminal acts, and falsely depicted others as indifferent to the suffering of their classmate. "[68][69] WCAV of Charlottesville, Virginia, published the audio of Jackie's 2014 statements to Erdely. Wenner, who was reportedly "furious" at Erdely's story, declined to accept the resignation. But as Smerconish wrote, "[S]he did not talk to all of Jackie's friends. "[115] Rolling Stone ran the story anyway, to their journalistic and financial detriment. But, just as in the Duke Lacrosse case, many of the people who enabled the false accusation and unfairly deemed the fraternity as guilty from the start were unharmed by the article. Then in June 2017, the magazine settled with the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity for $1.65 million. How honest are the intentions of Cosby's accusers? Sabrina Erdely would also continue to write for Rolling Stone. Irresponsible journalism unjustly damaged the reputations of many innocent individuals and the University of Virginia. They have also lived in Roxbury, MA and Dorchester, MA. UVA associate dean Nicole Eramo, the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, and several fraternity members later filed lawsuits against Erdely and Rolling Stone. [17] [95][96] Emily Renda, who was a University of Virginia student at the time of the alleged attack and in whom Jackie also confided, said that she had become suspicious as to the veracity of Jackie's story prior to the Rolling Stone report, commenting to a The Washington Post editor: "I don't even know what I believe. Please. The fact that Jackie had a romantic interest in Randall was also noted by other news media. [15] 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". [116] 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. [33] The Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple rejected Erdely's statement, saying that the severity of the accusations she was reporting required "every possible step to reach out and interview them, including e-mails, phone calls, certified letters, FedEx letters, UPS letters and, if all of that fails, a knock on the door. Shortly after this tweet, the article began to fall apart. 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. [153] According to Miltenberg, he specializes in "defamation and complex internet and First Amendment issues". "[135][136][137], The Rolling Stone article had a negative effect on applications to the University of Virginia. 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. Jacqueline Coakley Student at University of Massachusetts, Amherst Plymouth County, MA. 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