“Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” on Wednesday aired its take on a University of Virginia student's story that she was gang raped by frat members.
The explosive University of Virginia frat house rape story disastrously unraveled on the small screen, as it did in real life.
“Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” on Wednesday took on the real-life bombshell tale of a college student named “Jackie,” who told Rolling Stone she was gang raped by seven Phi Kappa Psi members in the frat house in September 2012.
Her horrific story fell apart after it was detailed in the pop culture magazine’s November 2014 issue — just like it did on the NBC crime drama.
A fictional young woman named Heather served as the real-life "Jackie" who told Rolling Stone she was gang raped, but whose tale later fell apart.
A fictional young woman named Heather Manning spills her heart to Detective Olivia Benson, sobbing as she describes how four frat boys at New York’s Ivy League “Hudson University” pounced on her like a “pack” before raping and sodomizing her.
She was sought out after a TV show called “America’s Worst Crimes” ran her heartbreaking interview under the name “Jane.”
“Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” on Wednesday aired its take on a University of Virginia student's story that she was gang raped by frat members.
Detectives soon discover pieces of Heather’s story don’t match up, and one of the students she names as an attacker had video to prove he was out of town during the alleged rape.
Heather later confesses she was drunk at the frat house, and may have had consensual sex with one person before she passed out.
People gathered with signs during a protest at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville on Saturday, Nov. 22, 2014. The University of Virginia on Saturday suspended activities at all campus fraternal organizations amid an investigation into a published report in which a student described being sexually assaulted by seven men at a fraternity in 2012.
She was egged on by her professor to come forward with the gang rape story, she says.
“I don’t blame Heather,” Benson says. “They thought this would be the case that would change rape culture. And it did. It set the clock back 30 years.”
“America’s Worst Crimes” producer also later admits to discrepancies in his report — similar to how Rolling Stone ended up apologizing for its own misreporting.
“Jackie’s” allegations led to a months-long police investigation, which found no evidence of a sex assault at the UVA frat house.
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