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Jamie Sarkonak: She was a rape accuser's greatest ally. Now, she regrets it

Chelsea Rooney defended the woman who accused Steven Galloway of sexual assault a decade ago. Now, she's sorry for only listening to one side

In 2015, when the University of British Columbia began to reckon with sexual assault allegations by a mature student against Steven Galloway, the school’s most high-profile creative writing professor, it had the help of an inquisitor.

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Chelsea Rooney circulated the unproven allegations that Galloway had raped a student (which were later found to be unsubstantiated by a retired judge tasked with investigating the affair for UBC) and did her best to gather more, contributing to the obliteration of his reputation and career. Now, a decade later, she’s walking it all back with a profuse apology, printed in the Saturday Post.

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In her apology, which has also been posted online, Rooney admitted that her understanding of and approach to the “believe women” movement was “misguided.”

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