{"id":84865,"date":"2016-01-08T12:21:03","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T20:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=84865"},"modified":"2016-01-08T12:21:03","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T20:21:03","slug":"this-is-the-best-newspaper-in-america-and-it-keeps-getting-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=84865","title":{"rendered":"This is the best newspaper in America and it keeps getting better"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Relying on text messages between Jackie and one of her closest friends at the time, Eramo\u2019s lawyers argue that Jackie not only fabricated the account of her alleged sexual assault but also created the false persona of her perpetrator, whom she repeatedly identified to her friend as Haven Monahan. Charlottesville police said that no one by that name ever attended U-Va., and extensive efforts to find the person were not successful.<\/p>\n

Also, photographs that were texted to one of Jackie\u2019s friends showing the alleged attacker were actually pictures depicting one of Jackie\u2019s high school classmates in Northern Virginia. That man, now a student at a university in another state, confirmed to The Post that the photographs were of him and said he barely knew Jackie and hadn\u2019t been to Charlottesville for many years.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll available evidence suggests that \u2018Haven Monahan\u2019 was a figment of Jackie\u2019s imagination,\u201d Eramo\u2019s lawyers wrote in court documents.<\/p>\n

Ryan Duffin, who was a U-Va. freshman in 2012 when he came to Jackie\u2019s aid that September night, said in an interview Thursday that he no longer finds much credence in Jackie\u2019s account. She wrote in texts to him that \u201cHaven\u201d had stopped by to apologize to her after the attack and that the attacker had dropped out of school days later; Duffin contemporaneously questioned the account, according to the texts, after students could find no evidence there was ever such a person at U-Va.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt makes the most logical sense to say that it was fabricated,\u201d said Duffin, who provided hundreds of text messages for the case under subpoena. Duffin said that he read through the messages he sent to Jackie and received from \u201cHaven Monahan\u201d before handing the documents over.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was strangely emotional, but I think for all of the wrong reasons,\u201d Duffin said. \u201cFor realizing that we probably got duped, and it\u2019s not a good feeling to have.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post reports: Relying on text messages between Jackie and one of her closest friends at the time, Eramo\u2019s lawyers argue that Jackie not only fabricated the account of her alleged sexual assault but also created the false persona … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-rape"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t