The people whom she considered her closest friends at school at that time decided that they didn't believe that she was assaulted. She had met them at the beginning of what was the first semester at the University of Virginia for all of them, and there were a lot of other people for her to meet when those friends stopped being her friends.
Why would she be as depressed as she told Rolling Stone that she was, and which was confirmed by people who lived in her dorm, if she hadn't gotten assaulted? Why would she fail classes? Why, when she failed classes and was then asked about her grades by the school's administration, would she say that she was raped and not just tell them that she was depressed? A psychiatrist could have written or spoken to the school to say that she was depressed, and then she would have gotten time from the school to do something about her grades.
There was nothing for her to get from saying that she was assaulted. There was nothing for her to get from joining a rape victim support and advocacy group. There was nothing for her to get from making a public, false accusation of rape.
Copyright L. Kochman, July 7, 2016 @ 4:52 p.m.
