Jacqueline Coakley
Suggested by Latoya Thea
Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. The greatest college rape hoax of all time. In what appeared to be an excuse for poor grades and a ruse to arouse jealousy in her male crush, collegian rape fantasist, Jackie Coakley, concocted an elaborate campus gang-rape story which was published on Rolling Stone magazine by the work of an accomplice - Sabrina Erdely, a feminist reporter so eager to put out the lies that she ignored the basic ethics of journalism like never seen before. By the time her false story fell apart, the fake campus "Rape Culture" had already made its way deeper into mainstream narrative. Was it just an error by incompetent journalism? or was it a deliberate push of an agenda in the guise of an 'honest mistake'? Keep an open mind for this one.
Background of the story
January 22, 2014. In signing a memo for increased policing of het collegians through a council established as "White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault," U.S. President Barak Obama made a public remark claiming that 1 in 5 college girls are raped. This flawed statistic which was also included in the report titled "Rape and Sexual Assault: A Renewed Call to Action,” was derived from a 2007 survey conducted online in only two universities, by asking only female students questions suggesting their assault victimhood. The RTI (Research Triangle Institute) researchers who conducted the survey with grants from the NIJ (National Institute for Justice) have since cited the limitation of their research and denounced its suitability for national use. However, agenda-driven politicians would best ignore the researchers' advice and carry on with the convenient narrative.
April 29, 2014. Vice President Joe Biden who authored the famous VAWA (Violence Against Women Act) bill in 1994 that would establish OVW (Office on Violence Against Women) and craft female victimhood into a formidable enterprise, reiterated the same false statistic: “It is estimated that 1 in 5 women on college campuses has been sexually assaulted,” he said. With the new alarming college rape rhetoric popularized and pushed by The White House, the media would not let the opportunity go to waste. Reporters chased college rape stories in all nooks and crannies but ended up with nothing more than bad relationships, drunk sex, and regretted consents just like the flopped Mattress Girl episode. This is where Sabrina Erdely comes in, an award-winning investigative journalist who writes for Rolling Stone Magazine. She is best known for a slew of heterophobic publications like Intimate Intimidation (1996) aimed at demeaning men and diminishing trust between men and women in society, while at the same time putting the blame of her portrayed 'plight of women' on the institutions in which these two sexes naturally interact. In 2013, she published an article titled: "The Rape of Petty Officer Blumer," telling the drunk story of Rebecca Blumer with an exaggerated frequency of military rape incidents while demonizing senior servicemen in epic proportions. Here she is back in 2012 admitting that she absorbs vague statistics from unconfirmed sources and dramatizes stories on women's issues.
Sabrina Erdely would not pass a chance to do the same with colleges. She scouted around for horrific campus rape stories across the country and ended up with Jacqueline Coakley in UVA (University of Virginia). Jacqueline was allegedly introduced to Sabrina Erdely over the phone on July 11, 2014, by Emily Renda from UVA’s sexual-assault group, a body of young people indoctrinated to convince themselves through stories that every masculine object finds them worthy of sexual ravishment. Jacqueline had earned her place in the group after narrating an unfounded gang-rape story to the Sexual Assault Associate Dean on May 20, 2013, as an excuse for her declined academic performance. Sabrina Erdely had hit her jackpot: "Jackie", a big mouth "survivor" with a movie-like rape story to tell, including actual pickup lines from movies.
August 13, 2014. As Sabrina Erdely prepared the biggest campus rape story of all time, the OVW (Office on Violence Against Women) sent our tax dollars to the BJS (Bureau of Justice Statistics) of the DOJ (Department of Justice), to "develop and test a pilot campus climate survey to address issues related to the measurement of rape and sexual assault in self-report surveys." BJS collaborated with RTI (Research Triangle Institute) International, the origin of the '1 in 5 college women' theory, to design and implement what they called the CCSVS (Campus Climate Survey Validation Study). The real purpose of this was to control the narrative on campus climate and sexual victimization, according to our insider. See here for the CCSVS report. If you believe in coincidence, then Sabrina's work coinciding with the OVW's effort to set-off a sex alarm on campuses may be just that.
September 11, 2014. Regular people were supposedly reflecting on the 9/11 attacks and lessons to be learned but Sabrina Erdely was meeting in person with her "source", "Jackie", hoping for the worst of rape events to be extracted from her. While a decent adult would be generally repulsive/dismissive of a talkative collegian who can't seem to complete one sentence without repeatedly expressing "..it's like..., she's like, he's like, I'm like...," Sabrina would rather fit in the conversations supporting Jackie's bogus imaginations with clues seemingly steering her into expressing the most gruesome of her rape fantasies to be blamed on UVA, the men, the system, anyone but Jackie herself. Sabrina Erdely allegedly interviewed Jackie at least seven times, during which, on at least one occasion, she threw UVA's female dean into the gossip and Jackie fired away with how the female administrator too is a problem. It worked out just as Sabrina wanted, and the so-called investigative journalist apparently opted to not verify anything, not even for finishing touches. Click here for the audio recorded conversation between Sabrina Erdely and her source Jackie Coakley over dinner.
The Rape Story
November 19, 2014. Rolling Stone magazine published a 9,000-word piece titled "A Rape On Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA," authored by Sabrina Rubin Erdely. The story portrayed a gang-rape ordeal of a UVA campus freshman in a frat party two years earlier. The alleged victim, Jacqueline Coakley, identified in the article only as "Jackie", is alleged to have been invited to a Phi Kappa Psi fraternity party by "Drew", a third-year student she dated. During the party, Drew led her to a dark room where she was flung on a glass table smashing it to pieces, then seven male frat members took turns raping her on the shattered glass while Drew and another male watched. One of the males whom Jackie claimed to have recognized from her anthropology study group was allegedly encouraged by the others to penetrate her with a beer bottle in order to "be a brother."
After the 3-hour ordeal which was alleged to be her "initiation ritual," Jackie allegedly she ran out of the frat house "face beaten", barefoot and in blood-spattered dress. She allegedly called her friends “Something bad happened. I need you to come and find me!”. Her three friends (including two males) arrived outside the frat house and allegedly found her shivering in tears. But they allegedly dismissed any ideas of going to the hospital or seeking help, with concerns that her escalating the situation would ruin their reputation on campus.
“She’s gonna be the girl who cried ‘rape,’ and we’ll never be allowed into any frat party again,” the article alleges Jackie's female friend said.
The portrayed do-nothing crew did not end with Jackie's friends. Working its way up the ranks, Sabrina Erdely's article also accused the UVA Administration (particularly the female Associate Dean in charge of Sexual Assault) of mishandling the alleged gang-rape and having discouraged Jackie from taking any action by giving her confusing options. This alleged mishandling followed the gang-rape story Jackie told in the Dean's office back in May 2013, as an excuse for poor academic performance. According to Sabrina's article, the dean suggested that Jackie could file a criminal complaint with law enforcement if she wished. But if she preferred to keep the matter within the university, she had two choices: file a complaint with the school's Sexual Misconduct Board, to be decided in a "formal resolution" with a jury and the dean herself as Judge. Otherwise, Jackie could choose an "informal resolution," in which Jackie could simply face her attackers in the dean's presence and tell them how she felt; The dean could then issue a directive to the men. Sabrina Erdely's article alleged that the dean presented each option to Jackie neutrally, giving each equal weight while catering to "victim choice."
"...the sheer menu of choices, paired with the reassurance that any choice is the right one, often has the end result of coddling the victim into doing nothing," Sabrina Erdely's article stated.
Investigation and Preliminary Consequences
Shortly after the Rolling Stone publication, UVA's president reached out to Charlottesville Police Department to launch an investigation.
November 20, 2014. While an investigation was still in its early stages, the accused Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house was attacked, its windows shattered, its walls spray-painted with graffitis like "UVA Center for Rape Studies" and "Stop raping people." Charlottesville police say they responded to the vandalism at 2:45 a.m, less than 24 hours after the Rolling Stone article was published. Much like a terrorist organization, a student group of blind-believers sent an anonymous letter to the UVA administration claiming responsibility for the attack. They also had a list of demands including the immediate revision of University policy to mandate expulsion of students merely accused of rape and sexual assault, the immediate suspension of UVA’s chapter of Phi Kappa Psi and a thorough review of the entire fraternity system, as well as the resignation of the accused female dean.
UVA's president gave in to the demands of the vandals and suspended all frat activities in UVa and the Sexual Assault Dean was replaced. Other universities across the country followed suit to review their own fraternities. With the increasing sensationalization of the campus rape myth, the likes of Jezebel and other feminist platforms had echoed the Jackie story, using UVA as a reference point to promote their "rape culture" narrative. Just like Sabrina Erdely and mainstream politicians wanted, infectious radical feminism got the better of campuses, feminist demonstrations erupted, rules were tightened against heterosexuality and a bigger conversation on "campus rape culture" was ignited.
Meanwhile, a Charlottesville Police investigation found nothing to corroborate Jackie's story nor the allegations in the Rolling Stone article. First of all, on September 28, 2012, the date of the alleged rape, there was no party at Phi Kappa Psi house. There is also no enrollment record of "Drew", the boy Jackie alleged to have led her to the rape room. The character was made up, just like all other elements of the story. And it gets more interesting...
It would later be revealed that Jackie used that fictitious character in an attempt to arouse jealousy in a male college friend who refused to start a romantic relationship with her. She went as far as creating social media accounts as the spirit of Drew, if you will, and used it to send messages to herself and to the male collegian she had a crush on.
December 05, 2014. Following scrutiny by other media establishments and independent reporters who revealed major flaws in the journalistic process of the article, Rolling Stone Magazine published a long note to their readers concluding with: "In the face of new information, there now appear to be discrepancies in Jackie's account, and we have come to the conclusion that our trust in her was misplaced."
December 10, 2014. More truths are revealed through media fact-checking. Though Sabrina Erdely spoke to others like collegian feminist Sandra Menendez from UVA's Women Center who knew Jackie, the actual friends of Jackie featured in her article say the rape story extractor made no attempts to interview them. Jackie's friends were also confident that “Drew” is a fabrication. The only possible clue to the Drew character happens to be another fictitious one: "Haven Monahan," who Jackie told her friends had a crush on her. She had forwarded a flirty message exchange between herself and "Haven Monahan" to the UVA male student she had a romantic interest in, to get him to feel there's competition. "Haven Monahan" even sent a message to Jackie's male friend directly, expressing regrets that he really likes Jackie but she’s "interested in someone else". However, there was no one with that name enrolled in UVA. Using the digital photo from Haven Monahan's online communication, investigative reporters were able to identify the boy by a different name. He is said to have attended Jackie's high-school but never interacted with Jackie. Whats more, he was enrolled in another university and not stepped foot in UVA for at least 6 years.
December 22, 2014. Under the pressure of a tarnishing reputation and declining readership, Rolling Stone magazine in damage control mode said that it had asked the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism to conduct a review of Sabrina Erdely's controversial article. Meanwhile, Sabrina Erdely herself is out of touch. Other journalists have tried to reach her to no avail.
January 12, 2015. Charlottesville Police officially informed UVA Administration that their investigation found no evidence to confirm the events described in the Rolling Stone article. The UVA President publically acknowledged that the story was discredited.
March 23, 2015. Charlottesville Police announced that they are suspending their investigation into the matter.
April 05, 2015. The Columbia Journalism Review published its findings titled: "Rolling Stone’s investigation: ‘A failure that was avoidable’" including notes Sabrina took during the process of preparing the story. After the CJR publication, Sabrina Erdely who adamantly stood by her false article finally issued what appeared to be a half-hearted apology to Rolling Stone readers and what she called "victims". "I hope that my mistakes in reporting this story do not silence the voices of victims that need to be heard," Sabrina Erdely wrote on her twitter post. Her apology excluded those she falsely accused by her article.
After the mea culpa, Sabrina Erdely's fake rape article became all but completely yanked off the internet. In fact, jezebel, feminist media and their blind-believing sheeple continued to use the story to justify their "Rape Culture" narrative.
How an award-winning investigative journalist got to publish such detailed gang-rape allegation with no investigation whatsoever just goes to show what type of people get these awards. Sabrina Rubin Erdely sacrificed a once trusted magazine brand to push a fake "Campus Rape Culture" to mask a larger heterophobic agenda. Being that she never lost her job after this big blow to Rolling Stone is an indication that she is more than just a journalist there. However, someone else would pay the price. The 19-year veteran editor Will Dana who approved the publication offered to resign but this was just the beginning of Rolling Stone's woes.
Incoming Lawsuits
May 12, 2015. The falsely accused UVA dean filed a $7.85 million defamation lawsuit in the Virginia state court, against Rolling Stone and Sabrina Erdely for “highly defamatory and false statements” about her. The lawsuit referred to Sabrina Erdely as a “wanton journalist” on a mission to fulfill “her preconceived narrative about the victimization of women on American college campuses” and Rolling Stone as a “malicious publisher” that is “more concerned about selling magazines to boost the economic bottom line for its faltering magazine, than they were about discovering the truth or actual facts.” The dean sought at least $7.5 million in compensatory damages and $350,000 in punitive damages. The case would later make its way to federal court.
July 29, 2015. New York federal court. Another lawsuit against Rolling Stone and Sabrina Erdely was filed by three UVA alumni Phi Kappa Psi fraternity brothers. As alleged in the complaint, one of the frat brothers who lived in the Frat house at the time of the alleged incident was automatically presumed to have participated in the alleged gang rape. The brothers want $75,000 in damages, for the “mental anguish and severe emotional distress” caused them in the aftermath of the article's publication.
November 09, 2015. The UVA chapter of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity also filed its own $25 million lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine, Straight Arrow Publishers, Wenner Media, and Sabrina Erdely for defamation. The lawsuit would claim that "The reputation that Phi Kappa Psi and its alumni spend decades building was destroyed overnight,” and "The formerly respected fraternity is now known colloquially in the University of Virginia community as 'the rape frat.'” The complaint would accuse the Rolling Stone Magazine of questing for a compelling story of graphics and violent rape at elite universities and finding Jackie's story "too sensational to let facts get in the way." Besides the obvious vandalism and protests against their Frat House, the UVA Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity also claimed that its members received more than 1,300 emails rebuking them as rapists.
More of Jackie Unraveled
The falsely accused dean's attorneys say Jackie's allegation that one of her rapists said "Grab its mfkin legs" as stated in Sabrina Erdely's notes was likely from an episode of SVU (Special Victims Unit) crime drama where the boys said the same to a victim. And who was sending all those messages from Haven Monahan? Investigation revealed that Haven Monahan's e-mail account was created from inside UVA campus in October 2012, just a day before that same account sent a message to Jackie's male crush in UVa, with compliments in the lines of "(He's) great, actually. I mean he's smart. He's attractive. He's funny. He's a scaredy little cat. If you creep up behind him, he'll jump right out of his skin," that's a pickup line from an episode of Dawson's Creek. Through federal subpoena on Yahoo, it was discovered that the same Haven Monahan account was accessed from inside Jackie's Attorney's office on March 18, 2016.
June 28, 2016. U.S. Southern District of New York. Feminist Judge P. Kevil Castel, who seems to think that men defamed by rape hoaxes don't deserve justice, dismissed the lawsuit against Rolling Stone by the three frat brothers. However, a federal appeals court would later revive the case ruling that three former UVA students have a plausible case that they were personally implicated in the alleged gang rape.
October 14, 2016. In a pre-trial video deposition, Sabrina Erdely was asked by the UVA dean's lawyers if she still believed that Jackie was raped. She replied that she has no reason not to believe so. She was asked why she made no attempt to speak to the people whom Jackie mentioned as the villains. In answering, Sabrina broke into croc tears insinuating that she trusted Jackie as a credible source. And why did Sabrina Erdely seem to think that Jackie was a credible source? According to her, it's because Jackie first told her she was raped by 5 men and later changed the number to 7. This to Sabrina is the reason to trust another woman's words. Of course, #BelieveWomen.
October 24, 2016. "I stand by the account I gave Rolling Stone. I believed it to be true at the time," said Jackie in her turn for a video deposition. It is deducible that Jackie was apparently using Sabrina to psychologically validate her own unrealistic sexual desirability as much as Sabrina was using Jackie to further her feminist causes. Regardless of who used who to a greater degree, Sabrina Erdely seemed to own up to the flaws of her story while Jackie interestingly stuck to her allegations in a blatant diehard manner.
November 04, 2016. U.S. District Court, Virginia. After a long court battle during which Sabrina Erdely and Jackie herself each took the stand to testify, along with other witnesses, ten jurors including eight women determined that Rolling Stone Magazine and its owner, Wenner Media, and reporter Sabrina Erdely had defamed the accused UVA dean who was found to have been portrayed in her article as a cold administrator unconcerned about the alleged plight of "sexually assaulted" female collegians.
November 07, 2016. A judge awarded $3 million to the UVA dean - $2 million in damages to be paid by Sabrina Rubin Erdely, and $1 million from Wenner Media's Rolling Stone Magazine.
Settlements
Apr 11, 2017. Having filed a motion to vacate the $3m judgment, Rolling Stone reached a confidential settlement with the former dean accused in Sabrina Erdely's article.
June 13, 2017. Rolling Stone also agreed to settle the defamation lawsuit by Phi Kappa Psi fraternity for $1.65 million, in lieu of a jury trial for the initially sought $25 million in damages.
December 21, 2017. The $75,000 lawsuit against Rolling Stone by the three frat brothers was also settled for an undisclosed amount.
The three settlements concluded Rolling Stone's legal woes as far as Sabrina Erdely's fake rape article went. Rolling Stone had taken the fall, Will Dana the top editor had resigned, Sabrina Erdely had lost her credibility as a journalist. What about Jacqueline "Jackie" Coakley the hoaxer from which this whole drama started? Will she also face any type of consequence? it appears the answer is NO. And not only that, she, but also gets to keep her anonymity as a "victim" amid overwhelming evidence that she's not. No kidding. The media won't even name the origin of the biggest campus rape hoax of all time, because, according to them, "it is not in the public's interest." The Washington Post which did much of the initial fact-checking that exposed flaws in Sabrina Erdely's story said they had guaranteed Jackie victim anonymity in exchange for her co-operation at the time they believed she was really a victim. Alright, how about now? Na! not important anymore it seems. Now you know what team they're playing for.
Lessons Learned
In the aftermath of the rape hoax, mainstream media in their business of distorted reality has struggled to paint another confusing picture of what lessons should be learned from the disaster, focusing more on the 'journalistic failures' than the actual lessons to be learned. Scout around the internet if you will, to find that most of those lessons are written by other feminists and point more to how Rolling Stone should have handled the article. How about not having written it at all? Our version of the lessons learned from this failure is simple:
1. Women lie about everything, including/especially rape. That's because humans lie and that's a commonsense fact that sheeple of the mainstream have apparently been robbed of. When dealing with a rape story, preliminary skepticism and/or investigation is a necessity to find the truth, if the goal is to arrive at truth rather than push an agenda.
2. Women who lie about rape are immune from legal consequences. Amid overwhelming evidence that she lied, Jackie stuck with her rape fantasy and even went as far as testifying in court that the story she told is what she "believed" had happened to her at that time. Inaction in holding Jackie accountable for her consequential lies is an encouragement to other women in need of impunity and even anonymity to pull off their own rape hoax. And there is no shortage of examples that this remains the case.
3. Feminism and Journalism can never strike a healthy balance. One doctrine will have a better part of the person/organization that embodies both. Just see why the biggest media persons/organizations today are more feminist than ethically journalistic. Sabrina Erdely has proven over and over again through her previous articles that she is more loyal to feminism than journalism. In the case of the UVA article, the fact that Sabrina Erdely only interviewed the rape storyteller and other girls from women's group shows she went to the campus with a preconceived notion and was only interested in sources that confirm that notion. Such a journalist cannot work on a rape story without bias, nor should she win an award for her so-called "investigative journalism". So, how/why did she excel in her career? According to the Columbia Journalism Review Report, Will Dana, Rolling Stone’s managing editor who later resigned in the aftermath of the publication's disaster, described Sabrina Erdely as “a very thorough and persnickety reporter who’s able to navigate extremely difficult stories with a lot of different points of view.” That's not true. We at CAFA have reviewed tens of articles written by Sabrina Erdely and we categorically tell you her points of view are just one narrow view rooted in feminism.
4. Like many other rape-related statistics often cited by the U.S. administration, the "1-in-5 women raped in college" is far from accurate. In 2014, UVA's Sexual Misconduct Board received a total of 38 reports of incidents including verbal assaults, unwanted touching, and harassment. The number of female students at UVA at that time was roughly 11,000. That means the incident rate (or at least the reported rate) is about 0.34% for the whole year. So, where are these 20% rape statistics coming from?
The two senior researchers in RTI International who conducted the 1-in-5 survey had put out a public disclaimer published here on Time magazine, stating the limitations of their research and why they think their report should not be used to represent the national average. Out of almost 4,300 colleges in the U.S., they surveyed only two universities online and got 42% response, less than half of the target number of students. Their survey questions were about general feelings of victimization ranging from attempted unwanted physical contact to assault to sexual assault to penetration. The RTI International researchers revealed that their findings data represented all of those discomforts in general, not rape/sexual assaults in particular. However, since that '1-in-5' rape tone had already been set, the Washington Post quickly pushed to validate it with another flawed research of their own, just to keep that narrative. In fact, the Washington Post would later conduct a subsequent survey to claim that the figure is 1-in-4. And the next one will most likely be 1-in-3. Where is mainstream leading us? Hold that thought!
According to Sabrina Erdely herself, it took six weeks of talking to students (presumably from sexual assault groups) across the country before settling for UVA. If rape and sexual assaults on campus were that prevalent, if the 20% college rape statistics had any truth to it, it would not take six weeks for an award-winning journalist to find a compelling story let alone a fake one.
5. The media's job is to divide people. In a climate of mainstream media coaxing their audience to believe that females in their own sexual desires and experiences are automatic victims of the males who play any part in them, it is no surprise that the so-called victims are easily conceived to be that many. Their desired outcome is to separate men from women. Whether this is for the benefit of a lesbianic utopia is another topic.
6. The greatest college rape hoax of all time is not to be understood as an isolated incident. It is as much a tone-setter as every other piece of the anti-het agenda puzzle. Connect the dots on how family courts enable false domestic abuse claims, why false victims of rape and domestic violence are afforded anonymity and impunity, how the welfare system encourages single motherhood, how divorce is made to be an attractive option for the women, how fathers are forced to pay child support for children they are deprived of seeing, why the only unforgivable crime in western society is heterosexuality, etc. There you have the bigger picture.
Looking at the frequency of rape hoaxes for the past 10 years, it is plausible that there will always be a rape hoax to keep the topic of female victimization sensationalized in our society. The goal of this is no longer a secret. While men pay most of the taxes that benefit women's programs aimed at demonizing them, while men are often quick to defend women and take to the streets to support what they think women want, it is important to take a step back and think. Today, it is no longer the women who are deprived of justice. It is men. Watch this space.
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