Author of botched Rolling Stone rape article expected to apologize

[Warren DeMontague]

35. Okay, so explain who "Haven Monahan" is.

Because I can tell you. He's a made-up guy who never existed, who she exchanged fabricated "texts" with that she showed to her friends (including the one she was romantically interested in, who did not reciprocate the interest).. The pictures of "Haven Monahan" were pictures of some random guy she had gone to high school with, taken off social media, that she showed to her friends as "hey here is this guy who is interested in me"

The night the assault allegedly occurred, she said she went on a date, a date with a guy no one else saw, a date with (she said at the time) "Haven Monahan".

That is who she claimed assaulted her. The guy she invented out of whole cloth. BEFORE the attack allegedly occurred, so so much for "misremembering the details of an attack".

I'm sorry, but the story isn't true. There's hardly any logically consistent narrative by which it could be true. The only explanation that makes sense is, she invented the incident, like she invented the imaginary date, to get the attn of the guy who didn't like her back. Odds are, the story snowballed beyond her control, to the point where Rolling Stone got involved. I don't think it was deliberate deception all the way down.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/16/us/uva-rape/index.html?sr=fb121614uvarapestory10pVODtopLink

Duffin said Jackie was much more interested in him than he in her. He said he was happy when Jackie told friends that an upperclassman in her chemistry class asked her on a date.

Duffin and Stock decided to learn more about the upperclassman and check to "see if he's OK," Duffin said. Jackie gave them the phone number for the man, whom she identified as Haven Monahan.

Stock and Duffin said they sent him text messages and pretended to be another student from chemistry class. Monahan purportedly texted back, saying of Jackie, "I really like her," and describing her as "super smart .. hot" and liking the same music as he. At one point, he even sent a photo of himself.

Duffin never suspected Monahan may not be a real person.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/12/everything-we-know-uva-rape-case.html

Jackie's friends shared more details about how they contacted "Drew," the man she claims she was on a date with the night she was raped.

According to the Daily Caller, the name she gave them for the attractive upperclassman who had a crush on her was "Haven Monahan." No one by that name was enrolled on campus, or even lived in the area.

She encouraged them to text him, and eventually they had three different phone numbers for Haven. Research by the Washington Times determined that all three numbers are registered to internet services that allow people to text without a phone number or redirect calls to different numbers.

Ryan Duffin said he received no response when he texted the first number Jackie gave him. Someone identifying himself as Haven contacted him from a different phone, claiming he was using a friend's phone because his wasn't working. Later Haven started texting the friends from a third number, which he said was his BlackBerry. Previously, the Washington Post determined that a photo sent from that number was of one of Jackie's high school classmates, who was not in contact with her at the time and is not named Haven.

http://reason.com/blog/2014/12/19/more-bad-news-for-rolling-stone-jackie-u

We now know the "real" given name of Jackie's date on the evening of her alleged rape, September 28, 2012: Haven Monahan. Jackie claimed that Monahan was an older student who had taken an interest in her. Prior to September 28th, Duffin, Stock, and Hendley had pressed Jackie for details about this mysterious love interest. She gave them several different cell phone numbers for Monahan, and they corresponded with him. He eventually sent a picture of himself. Many of his messages contained not-so-subtle hints that Jackie had (unrequited) feelings for Duffin.

We now know that no one named Haven Monahan attended UVA. The phone numbers aren't even real—they redirect back to an internet service that allows people to send texts without having actual phone numbers. And the picture is of a former high school acquaintance of Jackie's who never attended UVA and spent no time in Charlottesville that year.

This strongly implies, of course, that Jackie sent the messages herself. The Daily Caller's Chuck Ross has gathered compelling evidence—including an interview with Duffin himself—that Jackie may have been trying to make Duffin sympathetic to her or develop feelings for her.