They seemed to think that their discussion of that incident meant that nothing had happened to Jackie, when the crime listings at the University of Virginia's police department's website show that it's typical for there to be several sexual assaults every month.
"Many perpetrators do not pre-meditate their indecent acts. They actually believe that the victim will enjoy it and won't say no. Anger, embarrassment, resentment and selfishness take over and the perpetrator arrives at the 'point of no return.' A woman cannot always prevent a rape. However, there are some things that can be done to help reduce the chances of getting raped..."
"Young women need to be on the alert at all times and look out for each other. University men also have the responsibility, as members of our community of trust, to look out for the well-being of University women."
Those are quotes from part of the University of Virginia's police department's discussion of ANOTHER sexual assault alleged to have happened in September of 2012; that one is from September 23. The conglomerate media hasn't talked about that assault, nor has it talked about ANOTHER sexual assault on September 28, 2012; not the one that Jackie reported but an additional one that happened to someone else on the same night.
I'm having difficulty finding the word "felony" on the page of reports of sexual assault and other crime where the University of Virginia's police department has also included so many paragraphs of what it seems to think is caring advice to women and to men who don't rape about how to protect women from rape. Some of the advice is caring, although I have to question the idea that women are expected to live in fear while rapists are excused from thinking about how their actions affect other people.
It could be that the words "expulsion," "felony," "arrest," "prosecution," "criminal conviction," "sentencing," "years in jail," "sex offender registry for the rest of your life," and "DON'T RAPE" are on the page and it's taking me a while to find them amidst the hundreds of words of advice to women about how to avoid being raped.
There doesn't seem to be a mention at that page of the mid-Sepember sexual assault of 2012; no warning to the students, no public documentation of it except for what the University of Virginia and Phi Kappa Psi said, after the Rolling Stone article, about internal reports about it. Those organizations seem to think that the mid-September assault is proof that nothing happened to Jackie instead of an admission that there are so many sexual assaults at the University of Virginia every year that nobody keeps track of them all.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, March 3, 2016 @ 12:37 p.m.
