Cornell fraternity Snapchat messages could be key in Jane Doe rape case
CNN obtained Snapchat images that could bolster Jane Doe’s lawsuit and the reopened criminal investigation, with prosecutors now weighing new evidence.
- District Attorney Matthew Van Houten reopened the investigation into gang rape allegations at Cornell University this week based on new information in a civil lawsuit filed by a sophomore identified as Jane Doe.
- On October 19, 2024, Jane Doe alleges she was pressured into taking ketamine and gang-raped at a Chi Phi fraternity house party in Ithaca, New York; she reported the incident to campus police on November 8, 2024.
- More than 1,000 pages of internal Title IX investigation documents obtained by The New York Times detail Doe's shifting perception over three weeks, yet her November 3, 2024 text stated '90% of what happened that night was not consensual.'
- Van Houten has maintained Doe's initial police account did not include allegations she was drugged against her will or forced into sex, while attorneys for two accused men have denied participation in sexual assault.
- Cornell suspended the Chi Phi fraternity indefinitely and disciplined or expelled some students, though declined specifics citing privacy rules; Doe's September civil lawsuit names seven men, the fraternity, and the university, raising questions about absent initial criminal charges.
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The investigation has been reopened about the accusations of group rape addressed to some members of a confraternity of Cornell University. The event dates back, according to the testimony of the woman, to October 2024, when seven students of the prestigious American university forced her to drink alcohol and to take drugs "marijuana and especially ketamine " for [...] L'articolo Sexual violence by seven boys at Cornell University, only two expe…
At the US-Elite-University Cornell a young woman is said to have been raped by several men. An evaluation of the files shows the victim's view of the incident and how it changed.
Cornell 7 Defendant Gillio Lopes Confronted Over Jane Doe Case as He Says 'There's a Reason for That' and Refuses to Explain
A Cornell student confronted Gillio Lopes, who is named in a civil sexual assault lawsuit, as New York Attorney General Letitia James takes over a reopened criminal investigation.
Text messages shed light on Jane Doe’s alleged sexual assault
The text messages exchanged between Jane Doe and some of the men accused in her lawsuit shed light on how her understanding of her night at the Chi Phi fraternity house in 2024 appeared to evolve. NBC News’ Maggie Vespa reports.
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