Police to release report of alleged U.Va. rape

Marisol Bello | USA TODAY

Charlottesville, Va., police will release the results of an investigation into an alleged sexual assault at the University of Virginia that was reported in Rolling Stone magazine in fall 2014.

In a statement on its website, the police department said it will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. Monday and would not release any information until then.

The Rolling Stone piece, A Rape on Campus, detailed a female student's gruesome tale of a three-hour gang rape by seven men at Phi Kappa Psi fraternity's chapter house in 2012. The story, published in November, immediately drew worldwide attention to the problem of sexual assault on the nation's college campuses.

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The story roiled U.Va., campus fraternities and ultimately Rolling Stone in a complicated controversy.

A few days after the article's publication, school president Teresa Sullivan suspended all activities by fraternal organizations on campus. Then a Washington Post article found discrepancies in the story. The magazine later admitted that it never tried to interview the man accused by the woman in the story because she asked them not to contact him.

The questions and doubts have led to a Charlottesville police investigation into the alleged assault.

In January, the university reinstated the fraternity because it said in a statement that police had told school officials "that their investigation has not revealed any substantive basis to confirm that the allegations raised in the Rolling Stone article occurred at Phi Kappa Psi."

Rolling Stone requested a separate investigation, which it expects to be completed in coming weeks. In December, publisher Jann Wenner asked Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism to conduct an independent review of the story.

The magazine said it will publish Columbia's findings as soon as that investigation is complete.

The article has led to soul-searching about rapes on campus and efforts to stop the crimes. The university reinstated Phi Kappa Psi after the Greek organization agreed to new rules about parties: No kegs, security workers are required and at least three fraternity members must be sober. The school is also considering new courses to teach students safety and a center to research violence.