More questions are surfacing about the faulty University of Virginia rape story published last month by Rolling Stone.
When a girl named Jackie alleged to Rolling Stone that she was raped at a college frat party, the magazine trusted its source and complied with her request not to interview her accused rapist. The story opened up a nationwide discussion about rapes on campus before it was discovered that the story was actually false.
Rolling Stone issued an apology last week for its "misplaced trust" in their source.
Since then, Jackie's three friends in the story - identified as Andy, Randall and Cindy - came forward to point out flaws in Jackie's story that was published.
"It didn't happen that way at all," Andy told Washington Post.
The friends relayed the same story Jackie told them on the night of the incident to the WP. The account differed immensely from the one reported by Rolling Stone:
The friends remember receiving a panicked call from Jackie at 1 a.m. on the night of the party saying she appeared "traumatized." She told her friends "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," the U. Va students said.
The friends told her to contact authorities, but she refused. Two of them stayed with Jackie all night to comfort her.
The friends also pointed out that the name of Jackie's alleged date from that night did not match the names of any students who go to the university - which was confirmed by Washington Post.
Pictures that Jackie showed her friends of her alleged date were actually of a high school classmate.
Jackie has a lawyer and is refusing to speak to the media on the issue.
The investigation into this story is continuing.
