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Next, former Cornell student alleges frat members gang raped her in lawsuit.

A former Cornell student filed a lawsuit alleging she was drugged and sexually assaulted by seven Chi Phi fraternity members in October 2024.

The woman, who was 20 at the time and is suing under the name Jane Doe, claims she was assaulted by three members before one sent a Snapchat message to a group chat around 1.42 a.m. saying there was free P-U-S-S-Y upstairs.

The woman claims more men joined and the assaults continued until 5.45 a.m.

Not a single person has been criminally charged.

So what actually happened? On October 19th, 2024, a woman identified as Jane Doe visited the Chi Phi fraternity house to see Matthew Ingalls, someone she had previously been romantically interested in.

According to her lawsuit, Ingalls suggested a threesome with another fraternity member, Jonathan Newell.

She initially consented to some sexual activity, but she alleges the situation changed drastically as she consumed more alcohol and ketamine.

How did all these people get in there?" Lee doesn't mention he was enthusiastic on this Snapchat thread where more than 50 fraternity brothers were invited to the room.

There was nothing saying that, like, um, anything was happening in that room or anything.

Jane Doe then calls Matthew Ingalls, the frat brother she went to see that night at the Chi Phi house where it all unfolded.

You want me to give my recollection of the entire night?

But again, we're gonna recap.

This is back in O- in 2024, a Cornell student told police she was assaulted, but this is after weeks, weeks of happening by multiple men at the Chi Phi fraternity house.

The local DA didn't file a charge.

Last month, she sued the seven f- former fraternity members in Cornell.

The thing you need to know about Jane Doe and Cornell, because there's a lot they're not telling you.

In November of 2024, a 20-year-old junior at Cornell University under the pseudonym Jane Doe filed a police report saying that she was assaulted a few weeks earlier in October.

According to a six-page police report that she signed off on that was sent to the district attorney's office, she had gone to a frat called Chi Phi to see male number one who she'd been texting all week.

She said she was 5 out of 10 intoxicated when she got to the frat house and she opened a can of beer.

My kind, smart, big-hearted daughter was ready to spread her wings, ready to meet all the people and do all the things.

Twelve days later, news broke that a former Cornell student was suing the university and others, alleging that seven fraternity members had drugged and raped her at the Chi Phi fraternity house in October of 2024 when she was 20 years old.

She said the university had failed to protect her or to adequately punish the participants, one of whom had sent an unprintable message to the fraternity's Snapchat group, alerting its dozens of members in vulgar shorthand that a woman's body was available for the taking.

Hearing about it, I was incandescent with rage, as were a great many others.

And I keep thinking about my daughter and her female classmates.

Would some student on their campus be capable of sending a text that offered up a woman like a used futon on Facebook Marketplace? And if so, would the university allow him or some of those who participated to continue their studies? I wanted to think that the world has changed, that all those years of marching and making demands by students at colleges all over the country had resulted in more effective systems, that colleges had better ways of handling sexual assault, that we'd educated boys and girls about rape culture, that young men see their female classmates as people, that all our work meant something.

Looking at the screenshots the Chi Phi brothers sent that night, I think maybe all that's changed since 1987 is the technology.

All I can do is hope that in another few decades, when one of my daughters is dropping off her daughters on campus somewhere, things will finally be better.

Silence protects no one.

To her, we support you." During an appearance in Ithaca, New York, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called the 20 to 24 episode at Cornell's Chi Phi fraternity house part of a culture of rape on college campuses.

In the lawsuit, the young woman says she was assaulted at the Chi Phi house on Cornell's campus, names seven men who were involved, and says the university and law enforcement agencies did not do enough to punish or pursue prosecution of the men.

The men involved have denied the allegations, while the university, the fraternity, and prosecutors have said they have responded appropriately given the information they had at the time.

Lawyers point out the difficulty of prosecuting such cases in court, particularly when many complainants, including Ms. Doe, change their accounts over time.

To her, we support you.

During an appearance in Ithaca, New York, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called the 20-24 episode of Cornell's Chi Phi fraternity house part of a culture of rape on college campuses.

In the lawsuit, the young woman says she was assaulted at the Chi Phi house on Cornell's campus, names seven men who were involved, and says the university and law enforcement agencies did not do enough to punish or pursue prosecution of the men.

The men involved have denied the allegations, while the university, the fraternity, and prosecutors have said they have responded appropriately given the information they had at the time.

Lawyers point out the difficulty of prosecuting such cases in court, particularly when many complainants, including Ms. Doe, change their accounts over time.

Yates will conduct a review at the university's invitation.

The university has been under scrutiny for a few days now over the allegations from a Jane Doe that multiple members of the Chi Phi fraternity had sexually assaulted her during a party in which she consumed alcohol and ketamine.

Willingly, by the way.

She did that willingly.

She's now, Jane Doe is now suing these former students who have now been known, become known as the Cornell Seven, as well as the university, the Chi Phi fraternity.

Local authorities have not filed charges.

Kathy Hochul this month announced State Attorney General Letitia James will be the one to review the matter.

Well, turning now to the latest in the Cornell civil case, a second defendant name in Jane Doe's lawsuit alleging forcible drugging and gang rape at the Cornell University Fraternity House, asking a judge to remove New York Attorney General Letitia James from the case.

Winston Lee joined fellow Chi Phi fraternity brother Gilio Lopez in the effort.

Lee argued the attorney general has already publicly prejudged the guilt of subjects in her investigation.

It comes after a Manhattan judge overseeing the civil case ordered the same court documents to be sealed, some court documents to be sealed.