Boycrazy: UVA Rape Hoaxer Jackie Also Tried To Get Would-Be Boyfriend's Attention By Claiming to Have a Terminal Illness

Interesting reporting from the Post.

Remember, "Haven Monahan" is the name of the fake "would-be suitor" (as the Washington Post's T. Shapiro Rees calls him) that Jackie made up to make her actual romantic interest, a boy with the real name Duffin, interested in her.

The Washington Post presumes to settle the old podcast argument as to whether this was "catfishing." They call it an "elaborate" "catfishing" ruse. I disagree on both counts, but that's not important.

Court documents indicate that a crush Jackie had on Duffin freshman year was the spark for all that has happened since, that the attention-seeking events on Sept. 28, 2012 spiraled into a sensational tale that evolved, made its way into a national magazine’s pages, and then took on a life of its own.

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Once he began exchanging text messages with "Haven Monahan," Duffin said he was struck by how the supposed U-Va. junior was infatuated with their mutual friend.

"He immediately started talking about Jackie," Duffin told The Post in 2014.

But then Duffin noticed that Haven Monahan began talking about a freshman who Jackie had a crush on.

"Get this she said she likes some other 1st year guy who dosnt like her and turned her down but she wont date me cause she likes him," Haven Monahan wrote in a text to Duffin. "She cant turn my down fro some nerd 1st yr. she said this kid is smart and funny and worth it."

Duffin's conversations with Haven Monahan continued, and according to transcripts submitted in Eramo’s case, the text messages extensively detailed Jackie’s unrequited feelings for Duffin.

At one point, Haven Monahan confronted Duffin about his lack of interest in dating Jackie, urging Duffin to have more sympathy for her, claiming that she had a terminal illness. Surprised by the revelation, Duffin texted Jackie, who confirmed the diagnosis.

"Ryan, it means I'm dying," she texted.

Duffin replied: "I had no idea. Do you want to talk?"

Duffin says -- as everyone says -- that none of his craziness would have made it into national headlines if Rolling Stone had done its most basic journalistic duty and asked the parties involved about this -- Duffin already knew "Haven Monahan" was a fake, and Duffin further knew that Jackie gave Rolling Stone a different name than "Haven Monahan," one of her alleged rapists. (Remember, this dreamboy who liked Jackie, and who Jackie only dated because Duffin wouldn't, ended up leading a gang-rape against her, teaching Duffin the important lesson that he should have dated Jackie when she asked him to date her.)

But Rolling Stone never did.

Sonny Bunch even thinks she's so low as to swipe quotations from Anne Frank:

Anne Frank's actual quote is, "Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart."

And we're still protecting this "victim of sexual violence's" identity, huh?

posted by Ace at 02:35 PM

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