Defamation trial over Rolling Stone rape story to begin
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In this Jan. 15, 2015 file photo shows students participate in rush pass by the Phi Kappa Psi house at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va. The house was depicted in a debunked Rolling Stone story as the site of a rape in September of 2012. A defamation trial against the magazine is set to begin on Monday, Oct. 17, 2016, over its article about “Jackie” and her harrowing account of being gang raped in a fraternity initiation.
Charlottesville, Va. » Jury selection is set to begin in a University of Virginia administrator’s defamation case against Rolling Stone magazine over its now discredited story about a rape on campus.
The trial is scheduled to begin Monday at the federal court in Charlottesville.
The November 2014 story told the harrowing story of a woman identified only as “Jackie,” who claimed she was gang raped by seven men in a fraternity initiation. An investigation by Charlottesville police found no evidence to back up Jackie’s claims and details in the lengthy narrative did not hold up under scrutiny by other media organizations.
UVa administrator Nicole Eramo is seeking $7.85 million from the magazine. She claims the article portrayed her as indifferent to Jackie’s plight and only interested in protecting the university’s reputation.
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Experts are claiming that a large number of rape accusations against men are wrong. Psycho women and spurned women can just by their word and self-inflicting a few bruises ruin totally the life of men. A friend of mine reported that a mentally unstable women with whom he talked while they sat in his truck once wanted to be driven to a certain location, and when he refused she threatened to scream assault, rape etc, so he obliged.
“All the news that fits.”