Ms. Seccuro has inaccurately characterized the Rolling Stone situation, but unlike everyone else who was interviewed for the totally biased 20/20 report about the Rolling Stone article, she is not a liar.
Why did Ryan tell 20/20 that he went on one date with Jackie and that he then decided that he wasn't interested in dating her? What about the concert for his birthday for which Jackie bought the concert tickets and the bus tickets for both of them, and which he canceled after she was assaulted? The transcripts of his texts with her, canceling that date, are heartbreaking. He and Jackie's other then-friends already knew that Haven Monahan was Jackie's attempt to woo him; they all thought it was funny until she got assaulted. Her rape was organized by a real person to whom the Rolling Stone article gave the pseudonym of Drew, whom the Charlottesville police found and interviewed and whose financial records corroborated that he took Jackie to dinner on the night of September 28, 2012, before he brought her to the Phi Kappa Psi house.
Nobody has answered the question of why Drew was an undergraduate at the University of Virginia in 2006 and then a junior at the University of Virginia in 2012. I have asked that question over and over, and there's been no answer. I have always suspected that the answer has something to do with the school records which the University of Virginia refused to divulge and the Charlottesville Police Department neglected to subpoena, and which the Charlottesville Police Department described using the same language with which it described Drew's financial records, saying that they "may have been relevant" to the investigation. My guess is that Drew raped somebody or participated in an assault at the University of Virginia in or before 2006, that he left school for a while after the assault, and the school accepted him again as a student in or before 2012, even though the school knew that he was a rapist.
There was a party at Phi Kappa Psi on September 28, 2012; Dean Eramo confirmed that while she was in a support role to Jackie and was investigating the assault. Ms. Erdely's documentation of that confirmation is described in Section #92 of Ms. Erdely's Declaration in Support of Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment from June 30, 2016, which was filed a month and a half after Ms. Erdely's May 12, 2016 videotaped deposition. I don't know why Ms. Eramo's legal team leaked those segments of Ms. Erdely's deposition, in which Ms. Erdely is credible, neither emotionless nor melodramatic, cooperative and finally tearful; she couldn't seem less like a liar or like someone who was out to get anybody. Maybe Ms. Eramo's legal team wanted those segments of Ms. Erdely's deposition to be kept out of court, and is glad that the judge for the case has subsequently thrown them out.
Everybody lied about whether or not that party happened; Phi Kappa Psi lied, the University of Virginia lied, and the Charlottesville Police Department lied.
Why did 20/20 start its report by saying that Jackie didn't tell the police about being assaulted before the Rolling Stone article was published on November 19, 2014?
These are pictures of noncontiguous parts of the Charlottesville Police Department's March 23, 2015 statement:
This is the address for the police statement, republished by the Washington Post:
Dean Eramo probably hasn't had to move from the office in Peabody Hall that she had when she was Associate Dean of Students, although her professional status at the University of Virginia is probably contingent on whether or not her lawsuit is dismissed. If she wins, her employer will be vindicated through her. If she loses, her employer will scapegoat her.
One of Jackie's former friends, Alex, who starred with Ryan in many interviews after the media, led by the Washington Post, began to attack the Rolling Stone article, starred again tonight for 20/20. He said that Jackie cried after Ryan initially rejected her; he said she cried "more than a normal person" would have.
Has anyone investigated whether or not Jackie has Hashimoto's disease? If she does, that would be a reason why she was so fearful of rejection and so wounded by it. Most people are nervous when they start college; people who have potentially disfiguring health problems are particularly prone to fears that they will never be able to date.
I have already spent months confronting lies which 20/20 told again tonight for no reason other than to bias the jury, prompt the lies to be repeated on the Internet by other media paraphrasing 20/20's report, and manipulate public opinion right before the start of the trial on Monday.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, October 15, 2016 @ 1:18 a.m.
