The Cornell University student at the center of an alleged fraternity gang rape scandal at the Ivy League school described how the events of that night “felt like coercion” in a report to a campus police officer at the time.
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The now-former student, referred to only as Jane Doe, did not use the term “gang rape” in her sworn statement signed on Nov. 15, 2024, according to a copy of the police report obtained by ABC News.
But she did detail multiple instances where she said “no” to certain sexual acts suggested by her alleged attackers, according to the report.
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At one point, she said “no to the foursome” proposed by one of the fraternity brothers, but had consensual sex with two of them, she said in her statement to cops.
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Doe also recalled “a group of multiple men” walking into the room during the acts, according to her statement.
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“I was instantly horrified, and I remember squealing out loud and running across the room and hiding under the covers on another bed,” read the statement.
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“I was horrified because I was really embarrassed that these individuals had seen me completely naked,” she allegedly said.
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The word “rape” appears once in the statement, when Doe recounts her reasoning for taking more ketamine, according to ABC.
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“I had become extremely uncomfortable with how this night was turning out so my thought was, if I do Ketamine again maybe I will pass out,” the statement reads.
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“My thought was that if I passed out and these men had sex with me, then they could be charged with Rape,” she allegedly told cops, adding that the men persisted.
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During the final threesome, Doe recounted, “I remember being totally disgusted at the situation, and I felt very tired and intoxicated.
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“I would say that my level of overall intoxication was about a 8 out of 10 level of intoxicated.
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I would say that it was the most intoxicated I’ve ever been in my life.
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I felt like I was unable to make any decision because of how intoxicated I was,” the statement reads.
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“To me, that felt like coercion,” she allegedly told cops.
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“Also I felt like due to my intoxication, they should have known how intoxicated I was based on how I was slurring my words.”
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Doe recalled being “extremely tired” when she replied “Sure,” to a request from some of the fraternity brothers to snort ketamine off her body, according to the statement.
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“[The] group of men all started pouring various things all over my body.
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I couldn’t tell what they were pouring on me, as I had my face covered with my hands,” she allegedly told cops.
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Doe said she woke up at around 10 a.m. later that morning and was driven home by the same fraternity member who had initially invited her to the house and later allegedly raped her.
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The news spread around campus and became “public knowledge” by the afternoon, she said.
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Several frat members “were bragging about having an ‘eightsome’ with me,” she said.
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The six-page statement was given to Cornell Campus Police roughly a month after the alleged incident on Oct. 19, 2024, when the victim alleges she was subject to an hours-long sexual attack by seven members of the Chi Phi fraternity.
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It was also central to Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten’s decision not to bring charges at the time.
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Van Houten has since decided to reopen the case, after Doe filed a civil lawsuit earlier this month naming all seven alleged participants in the assault and including new details that the DA said weren’t in her initial 2024 account.
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Those include twisted messages from a Snapchat group chat, in which fraternity members appear to discuss having a passed-out girl in the frat house available to have sex with.
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Van Houten described the allegations against the fraternity brothers as “morally disturbing,” but said Doe’s initial account suggested that it was consensual, during an interview with ABC News this week.
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He added that Doe didn’t withdraw consent, and when she raised concerns, the fraternity members “stopped and did not pursue what they were doing,” as per her 2024 statement.
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The lawsuit alleges that Doe was drugged, assaulted, and gang raped by seven former and current members of Chi Phi at their fraternity house on the prestigious Ivy League school’s campus in Ithaca, New York.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday called for an outside investigation into Cornell’s campus culture and its response to the initial allegation.
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