“The University remains first and foremost concerned with the care and support of our students and, especially, any survivor of sexual assault,” Sullivan said in a statement. Sullivan said Friday that the developments will not alter the university’s focus on “one of the most difficult and critical issues facing higher education today: sexual violence on college campuses.” “This notion is vile, and we vehemently refute this claim.” “Moreover, no ritualized sexual assault is part of our pledging or initiating process,” the fraternity said. The statement also said that the house does not have pledges during the fall semester. The fraternity also said it has reviewed the roster of employees at the university’s Aquatic and Fitness Center for 2012 and found that it does not include a member of the fraternity - a detail Jackie provided in her account to Rolling Stone and in interviews with The Post - and that no member of the house matches the description detailed in the Rolling Stone account. 28, 2012, when Jackie alleges that she was invited to a date party, lured into an upstairs room and then ambushed and gang-raped by seven men who were “rushing” the fraternity. Phi Kappa Psi said it did not host “a date function or social event” during the weekend of Sept. The prominent fraternity - which has been vilified, vandalized and ultimately suspended on campus since Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s Rolling Stone article went online last month - said in its statement Friday that its “initial doubts as to the accuracy of the article have only been strengthened as alumni and undergraduate members have delved deeper.” The Post generally does not identify victims of sexual assault without their permission, and The Post is identifying Jackie by her real nickname at her request. I have had to live with the fact that it happened - every day for the last two years.”Ī lawyer who is representing Jackie said Friday that she and her client are declining to comment beyond her interviews. “What bothers me is that so many people act like it didn’t happen. “I never asked for this” attention, she said in an interview. Jackie, who spoke to The Washington Post several times during the past week, stood by her account, offering a similar version and details. He also said he was not a member of Phi Kappa Psi. But he added that he never met Jackie in person and never took her out on a date. graduate, said Friday that he worked at the Aquatic and Fitness Center and was familiar with Jackie’s name. and sexual assault: The scrutiny will continue) For example, an alleged attacker that Jackie identified to them for the first time this week - a junior in 2012 who worked with her as a university lifeguard - was actually the name of a student who belongs to a different fraternity, and no one by that name has been a member of Phi Kappa Psi. The friends said that details of the attack have changed over time and that they have not been able to verify key points in recent days.

They offered to get her help and she said she just wanted to return to her dorm, said the student, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject. A student who came to Jackie’s aid the night of the alleged attack said in an interview late Friday night that she did not appear physically injured at the time but was visibly shaken and told him and two other friends that she had been at a fraternity party and had been forced to have oral sex with a group of men. for sex-assault awareness, said they believe that something traumatic happened to her, but they also have come to doubt her account. Among other things, the fraternity said there was no event at the house the night the attack was alleged to have happened.Ī group of Jackie’s close friends, who are advocates at U-Va.

fraternity where the attack was alleged to have occurred has said it has been working with police and has concluded that the allegations are untrue. Shocking for its gruesome details, the account described Jackie enduring three hours of successive rapes, an ordeal that left her blood-spattered and emotionally devastated. junior, said she was ambushed and raped by seven men at the Phi Kappa Psi house during a date party in 2012, allegations that tore through the campus and pushed the elite public school into the center of a national discussion about how universities handle sex-assault claims. The fraternity issued a statement rebutting the story, and Rolling Stone apologized for a lapse in judgment and backed away from its article on the case.

CHARLOTTESVILLE - A University of Virginia student’s harrowing description of a gang rape at a fraternity, detailed in a recent Rolling Stone article, began to unravel Friday as interviews revealed doubts about significant elements of the account.

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