Re-posted by Nicholas Stix
Sabrina Rubin Erdely: “I could address many of [the questions] individually . . . but by dwelling on this, you’re getting sidetracked,” she wrote in an e-mail response to The Post’s inquiry. “As I’ve already told you, the gang-rape scene that leads the story is the alarming account that Jackie — a person whom I found to be credible — told to me, told her friends, and importantly, what she told the UVA administration, which chose not to act on her allegations in any way — i.e., the overarching point of the article. THAT is the story: the culture that greeted her and so many other UVA women I interviewed, who came forward with allegations, only to be met with indifference….”
In her interview with The Post, Erdely said that she “corroborated every aspect of the story that I could.” She said that she did not identify any of the alleged attackers in the article “by Jackie’s request. She asked me not to name the individuals because she’s so fearful of them. That was something we agreed on.
She was nervous about naming the frat, too. I told her, ‘If we’re trying to shine a light on this, we have to name the fraternity.’ ”
Erdely declined to say whether she knows the names of the alleged perpetrators, including “Drew.”
“I can’t answer that,” she said. “This was a topic that made Jackie extremely uncomfortable.”
Sabrina Rubin Erdely, author of Rolling Stone’s November 19, UVA article, “A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA,” quoted in “Author of Rolling Stone article on alleged U-Va. rape didn’t talk to accused perpetrators,” by Paul Farhi, Washington Post, December 1.
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totally off-topic, but you know i'm a fan: Unamusement Park is back up and running (and talking about Haiti)
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