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U-Va. Students Challenge Rolling Stone Account of Alleged Sexual Assault

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An exterior view of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house at the University of Virginia, in Charlottsville, Va., the site of an alleged sexual assault of a student revealed in a Rolling Stone article published Wednesday. (AP/Ryan M. Kelly, The Daily Progress)

An exterior view of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house at the University of Virginia, in Charlottsville, Va., the site of an alleged sexual assault of a student revealed in a recent Rolling Stone article. (AP/Ryan M. Kelly, The Daily Progress)

(The Washington Post) – It was 1 a.m. on a Saturday when the call came. A friend, a University of Virginia freshman who earlier said she had a date that evening with a handsome junior from her chemistry class, was in hysterics. Something bad had happened.

Arriving at her side, three students —“Randall,” “Andy” and “Cindy,” as they were identified in an explosive Rolling Stone account — told The Washington Post that they found their friend in tears. Jackie appeared traumatized, saying her date ended horrifically, with the older student parking his car at his fraternity, asking her to come inside and then forcing her to perform oral sex on five men.

In their first interviews about the events of that September 2012 night, the three friends separately told The Post that their recollections of the encounter diverge from how Rolling Stone portrayed the incident in a story about Jackie’s alleged gang rape at a U-Va. fraternity. The interviews also provide a richer account of Jackie’s interactions immediately after the alleged attack and suggest that the friends are skeptical of her account.

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