The “Cornell 7” gang rape case is descending into the same lynch-mob hysteria as the notorious Duke lacrosse or “mattress girl” hoaxes of old — only with social media making everything worse.
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It seems we have learned nothing from past injustices.
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A young woman who goes by “Jane Doe” has filed a civil lawsuit two years after she alleged she was gang-raped by seven men in a sordid, drug-fueled sexual encounter at the Chi Phi fraternity house at the elite Cornell University, where she was a student at the time.
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Predictably, the fraternity brothers have been judged guilty in the court of man-hating public opinion.
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Yet, according to Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten, citing Doe’s sworn statement to campus investigators in November 2024, she “described her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious and consensual.”
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When she told the young men to stop, they did.
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While describing the allegations as “heinous and despicable” and “morally disturbing,” he said they were not criminal.
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He has been bombarded with threats and abuse since news of the lawsuit broke two weeks ago, and has now reopened the investigation, saying that her current lawsuit and her initial sworn statement, signed under threat of perjury three weeks after the 2024 encounter, tell very different stories.
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The alleged “rapists” have been named and shamed by the Cornell campus newspaper, the Daily Sun, and doxed online.
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One of the men has already lost his job, and as The Post reports, future students are abandoning Cornell over its handling of the case.
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Lefty pols jump in
Democrat politicos have effectively condemned the men, with Gov. Hochul this week praising Doe’s “extraordinary courage” and demanding that Cornell “pursue justice.”
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez traveled to Ithaca Sunday and condemned “the culture of rape [that] is protected in elite institutions [like] Cornell University.”
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She said the men had been “protected” by Cornell and called the woman a “survivor.”
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Then she described herself as a “survivor,” saying she was “touched inappropriately” at her first college party.
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Ithaca Democrat Mayor Robert Cantelmo damned the accused men as “perpetrators” and suspended “Greek life” at Cornell that he said “failed to hold the perpetrators to account.”
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Every week, Post columnist Miranda Devine sits down for exclusive and candid conversations with the most influential disruptors in Washington on ‘Pod Force One.’
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But what else do people expect Cornell to have done?
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The school conducted a months-long investigation, including a hearing where the men and Doe all testified.
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When Doe was interviewed by campus police, she was provided three support staff, according to CBS News, including a Title IX investigator, a victim’s advocate and a personal adviser.
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Cornell says that two men were expelled, two were suspended, one had already graduated, and two were found not to have participated in the sex.
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As well, the fraternity was shut down.
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In her police interview, Doe said: “I can say with 100% confidence I was raped,” according to CBS News.
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But in the sworn statement summarizing the interview that she reviewed and signed and amended with more than 20 handwritten corrections, she says she did not withdraw her consent, ABC News reports.
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Further, when she expressed concerns, the fraternity brothers “stopped and did not pursue what they were doing.”
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In her current lawsuit, she claims she was incapable of consent, was pressured into taking ketamine and became “completely incapacitated.”
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Three of the young men have denied the allegations through lawyers.
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Text messages between Doe and Male 1 were released in which she told him after the event that she enjoyed being with him, and suggested they smoke together again, “but like leave out the extra 5 billion men and ketamine.”
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She also said “none of the sexual stuff was illegal.”
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In her sworn statement, she admitted to willingly engaging in two threesomes during an hours-long encounter on Oct. 19, 2024, in which she consumed alcohol and ketamine of her own free will, describing her intoxication level when she arrived at the fraternity as a “5 out of 10.”
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The first threesome ended prematurely when Male 1 passed out and Male 2 “began to dry-heave as if he was going to vomit.”
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Male 3 arrived, and he and Male 2 engaged in a threesome with her while Male 1 slept.
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Male 1 then woke up and asked for a foursome, to which she said “hell no,” and the men backed off.
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She told police she had agreed to the foursome “due to how attracted [she] was to [Male Number 1] on top of [her] drunken curiousness.”
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Four more men arrived in the room after Male 2 despicably announced on the fraternity Snapchat that there was “free p–sy” available.
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Male 4 asked if they “all could do drugs off of [her] perfect body.”
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Jane Doe responded, “Sure.”
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She recounted another threesome “until at some point, around 5:45 a.m., [Jane Doe] said [she] was tired and needed to turn in.
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At that point, both guys stopped the threesome.”
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None of us knows the whole truth, but the young woman deserves sympathy.
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When she woke up the next day and realized she was the butt of campus gossip, she felt ashamed.
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…and 11 more, not listed.
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