"Upon release of the article, family, friends, acquaintances, coworkers and reporters easily matched Plaintiff as one of the alleged attackers and, among other things, interrogated him, humiliated him, and scolded him. Plaintiffs Hadford and Fowler suffered similar attacks."
Those are quotes from the defamation lawsuit filed by George Elias IV and two of his friends against Rolling Stone, Sabrina Erdely and Wenner Media.
Do the plaintiffs for the lawsuit have an explanation for how Jackie could provide "vivid details" of the room where she was raped, and the people in it, if they never met her and never knew who she was before she accused them of rape?
It is an outrage against every notion of human decency that these men are simultaneously admitting to being rapists and also expecting to be publicly exonerated of rape and paid thousands of dollars because they got "scolded" for being rapists.
There's a part of the lawsuit that seems to be quoting someone, and I'm not sure whom it's quoting. The quote is:
"Defendants intended to show 'what it's like to be on campus now...where not only is rape so hostile but also that there's this pervasive culture of sexual harassment/rape culture.'"
When is rape not hostile? Is that quote from one of the plaintiffs of the lawsuit, complaining that rape at the University of Virginia has gotten bad publicity because of the Rolling Stone article?
Jackie and everyone else who was part of getting the Rolling Stone article published have gotten interrogated and humiliated. The conglomerate media is trying to ruin Jackie's life, and Sabrina Erdely's life, to punish Rolling Stone for publishing the article, and to terrify anyone who thinks of reporting about sexual assault.
"41. The article also claims that two other women were victims of a gang rape at Phi Kappa Psi, but both women refused to comment and neither woman was ever identified as having even existed."
That's another quote from the lawsuit.
Women who never existed refused to comment?
I'm sure that the lawsuit is full of discussions of similarly amazing supernatural occurrences. However, I have a lot of homework to do and I can't read the remaining 25 pages of the lawsuit today.
That's the address of the July 29, 2015 Washington Post article that says that it has the full text of that lawsuit. The article is very sympathetic to the plaintiffs of the lawsuit. The article also says that several members of Phi Kappa Psi have spoken to the Washington Post. Perhaps the Washington Post wants the world to believe that the fraternity members' lack of reticence in talking to a newspaper that has done everything it could to discredit the Rolling Stone article proves how easily anyone could have gotten interviews from the accused rapists before the Rolling Stone article was published. That's one of the main criticisms of the Rolling Stone article, isn't it, that Ms. Erdely's journalistic integrity was compromised because she failed to get both sides of the story? Jackie being stalked, harassed and hit in the face with a bottle for doing rape victim advocacy at the University of Virginia, and the University of Virginia canceling interviews and refusing Ms. Erdely's request to interview Dean Eramo are events never discussed by the Rolling Stone article's chronic detractors. The Washington Post is not the only media source to blame Ms. Erdely, rather than the University of Virginia and Phi Kappa Psi, for Ms. Erdely not having gotten those interviews.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, April 3, 2016 @ 5:35 p.m.
