, Columnist
Treat Rape Like Every Other Crime
Journalists, police and prosecutors are pressured to show deference to people who say they have been raped. From good intentions, terrible results.
Greasing the skids on the path to prison.
Photographer: RICHARD BOUHET/AFP/Getty ImagesA new report from the Washington Post, based on recently released court documents, reveals just how credulous the writer of the now-discredited Rolling Stone rape article had to be. Short answer: quite.
Looking into the notes of the writer, Sabrina Rubin Erdely, the Post reporter finds that she pressed forward with the UVA story even though: