The Rolling Stone freefall continues
Via Daily Caller – When Ryan, a University of Virginia student — described in the widely-discredited Rolling Stone article on campus rape as “Randall” — told Jackie he was not interested in pursuing a romantic relationship with her in September 2012, he says “it did not go over very well.”
“There was a lot of crying involved,” Ryan told The Daily Caller in an interview on Friday of the conversation with Jackie after she expressed interest in dating him during the fall semester of their freshman year.
Ryan has become a central figure in Jackie’s claim — published in Rolling Stone last month — that she was brutally gang-rape by seven members of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity on Sept. 28, 2012.
The story, reported by Sabrina Rubin Erdely, sent shock-waves through the UVA campus and sparked a national dialogue about campus sexual assault, though it has now fallen apart nearly completely.
Ryan, along with “Andy” — whose real name is Alex Stock — and “Cindy” — whose real name is Kathryn Hendley — came to Jackie’s aid on the night the attack allegedly occurred.
But all three have come forward now discrediting both Jackie’s story and Erdely’s reporting. (read more)