Saturday, February 4, 2017

Why are people continuing to ignore the evidence in the University of Virginia/Phi Kappa Psi case?

February 4, 2017




That's a picture of part of this "Watchdog.org" article from January 31, 2017, the rest of which is as biased and misleading as that paragraph is.  The article is called "Rolling Stone rape hoaxer ordered to comply with second lawsuit":






The Charlottesville police identified "Drew" during their investigation.  He had a date with Jackie on the night that she was raped.  His financial records prove that he did.  The Charlottesville police statement from March 23, 2015 talks about him, and does everything that it can to deny that the police had identified a culprit.  

This article ignores the many descriptions online of fraternity parties being unregistered all over the United States, including parties by Phi Kappa Psi at other universities.  The person who wrote the article also does not seem to have read any of the documents from Ms. Eramo's lawsuit, in which Ms. Erdely's notes given to the court included a transcript of Jackie having told Ms. Erdely that one of the first things that Ms. Eramo did was to find out if there was a party that night, and there was.  That transcript is from conversations that Jackie had with Ms. Erdely a year before the Charlottesville police strenuously avoided investigating the case and strenuously obfuscated all of the evidence that they couldn't help finding, so it's improbable that Jackie lied to Ms. Erdely during her interviews about whether or not there was a party and whether or not Ms. Eramo had confirmed that there was a party.  It is much more probable that Ms. Eramo first investigated whether or not there was a party because she knew that one of the first tactics that fraternities use to avoid being criminally charged or disciplined by universities when they gang rape people is to say that there was no party on the night that the victim was raped.  

It also seems that even parties that are registered don't have permanent records.  


These are pictures of noncontiguous parts of the Charlottesville Police Department's March 23, 2015 statement:



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This is the address of a Washington Post article from March 23, 2015, called "Full text:  Charlottesville police statement in U-Va. sex assault case":





The police statement does everything that it can to portray Jackie as unreliable, dishonest and uncooperative.  

One of the things that I also wrote about when Ms. Eramo's lawsuit was first being tried was how many reporters watching a proceeding that was also being recorded all published versions of the proceeding that had varying numbers and other descriptions.  From one article to the next, what journalists reported about what one person said all differed as to the material facts.  Where they didn't differ was in their condemnation of the defendants; most of them wrote several paragraphs about that as part of every article they published.  Perhaps their condemnation of what they characterized as bad reporting about sexual assault took too much of their time for them to accurately report what was happening in the courtroom or to read anything from or about the case other than what other journalists who had condemned the defendants and created the conditions for the lawsuits to be brought had written.  



Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, February 4, 2017 @ 11:13 p.m.