ASHE SCHOW: Despite lack of evidence, Rolling Stone’s Jackie still labeled a rape victim.

There’s no evidence to suggest that University of Virginia student “Jackie” — the source of a now-retracted Rolling Stone article about a brutal gang rape — was actually raped, yet she’s still being labeled a victim.

In her apology, RS author Sabrina Rubin Erdely used the phrase “Jackie and her account of her traumatic rape,” as if it was an established fact. This despite the 12,000-word Columbia Journalism School report on how Erdely’s article about Jackie’s alleged rape was completely false.

Throughout all of this, the suggestion from activists has always been that Jackie was indeed raped, just not in the way she told Rolling Stone. In fact, it’s not any more reasonable to assumes omething happened to her than it is to rule out the idea completely. There’s no evidence that she wasn’t raped, but given that everything she has said about her ordeal has turned out to be false so far, it’s hard to put much faith in the idea that she is a victim.

Nope. The only clear victims were the falsely accused.