The allegations made in the latest issue of Rolling Stone
are shocking. An 18-year-old University of Virginia freshman attends a
party at one of the school's oldest fraternities in the fall of 2012.
"Jackie", as she is called in the article, is invited upstairs by her
date, where she says she is gang raped by seven fraternity brothers.
Jackie didn't go to a hospital after the alleged incident, as
her friends decided it would adversely affect her- and their -
reputations at the school. In 2013, the story continues, Jackie reported
her rape to the head of the school's misconduct board, Nicole Eramo.Jackie was presented with the choice of going to the police, beginning a formal complaint or having a mediated session where she could confront her alleged attackers.
"Setting aside for a moment the absurdity of a school offering to handle the investigation and adjudication of a felony sex crime - something Title IX requires, but which no university on Earth is equipped to do - 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," the article's author, Sabrina Rubin Erdely, writes.
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