Charlottesville police have released their findings in the UVA rape case and have announced that they found no evidence to support claims published in a 2014 Rolling Stone article that a University of Virginia student was gang-raped at a fraternity in 2012. But, students at UVA have told MRCTV that their school's reputation was ruined by the story.
The report revealed that a months-long investigation led police to discredit several claims made about the alleged sexual assault.
Police claimed that they interviewed the alleged victim, known only to the public as "Jackie," several times and that she declined to cooperate with police questioning, choosing instead to remain silent about the incident.
“We’re not able to conclude to any substantive degree that an incident occurred at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house or any other fraternity house, for that matter,” said Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy J. Longo in a Monday press conference. “That doesn’t mean something terrible didn’t happen to Jackie … we’re just not able to gather sufficient facts to determine what that is.”
This is the first official statement discrediting "Jackie's" accounting of events since the investigation was opened five months ago.
Police were not even able to find credible evidence that there was an event at the fraternity house in question on the night that "Jackie" claimed to have been raped.
Longo said that the investigation is not "closed," but it has been suspended until a time when someone comes forth with credible information.
Late last year, MRCTV traveled to the UVA campus to ask students about the scandal and the effect the rape claim had on the school's reputation.
"No one wants to go to the Rape School," one student told MRCTV. UVA students expressed outrage that Rolling Stone unfairly smeared UVA as a “rape school.”
MRCTV also ran across one of the students who was mentioned in the article using the pseudonym “Andy” in order to protect his identity.
“Andy” was portrayed as a friend of the victim, “Jackie,” who the magazine claimed was with her following the alleged rape. Even “Andy” told MRCTV that he felt that the Rolling Stone piece inaccurately portrayed both himself and the events surrounding the alleged rape.