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Since you asked:  http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/compassion-matters/201309/why-we-lie-and-how-stop

I'm not saying that she's a liar.  She may not have all of the facts straight if she was traumatized and is not remembering all of it accurately.  Or she could be lying on purpose.  Or she could be telling the complete truth.  Point is that we don't know for sure.  The fact that women have been assaulted at UVA doesn't make her story more "true" because we are talking about an extreme case.

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Why is your first inclination to ask whether she is telling the truth? Also, do you think that this inclination might be one reason why people are often unwilling to report their rapes to the police?

And if she is not telling the truth, then what? Then everything is just fine at UVa?[/quote]

It's not my first inclination.  I'm just uncomfortable with the witch hunt for the guys at that frat before we are sure of all of the facts.  Everyone was up in arms about the a Duke lacrosse team and the stripper, and then it was discovered that things weren't as depicted by the stripper.  By then those guys were already put through hell.

If she's not telling the truth, then at least she's opened the door to a further investigation about what policies UVA had in place for sexual assault victims, because those polices really suck and need to be changed.[/quote]

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