Text messages and documents from the investigation are providing new details about the night a then-20-year-old
says she was raped by multiple men at a fraternity house in October 2024.This
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timeline of her account is based on messages obtained by CBS News,
with campus police and documents from in the months that followed.
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Jane Doe has filed a civil lawsuit against seven former fraternity brothers as well as the university and others she alleges failed to protect her.
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Prosecutors did not charge anyone but have now
.Here
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is what we know about her account
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The night of Oct. 19, 2024
Jane Doe, the unnamed woman at the center of the allegations, said she drank vodka until she was intoxicated at a sorority house on the night of Oct. 19, 2024,
she filed last month.
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At 8:30 p.m., she said she and the sorority chapter's "house mother" took an Uber to a bar in downtown Ithaca, New York, near the Cornell campus.
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She says she was served more alcohol there despite being underage.
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By 10 p.m., Jane Doe and other sorority members went to another bar in the area.
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It was at 11 p.m. that she went alone to meet up with a friend at the Chi Phi fraternity house, where she claims she was later drugged and raped by multiple men.
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Hours at the Chi Phi fraternity house
Jane Doe told police she initially had a consensual sexual encounter at the frat house with two men she knew, which she said she was "OK with."
"Yeah, as much as I can be because, again, I was super drunk when I got there. ...
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But I was pretty OK with all of this," she said in an interview taken on Nov. 14 with a Cornell police investigator, victim's advocate, university Title IX investigator and Jane Doe's adviser.
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But she says the situation quickly spiraled.
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By 1:42 a.m., now on Oct. 20, one of the defendants in the lawsuit sent a message in the fraternity chapter's
saying there was a woman upstairs for "free" sex, according to a screengrab included in the lawsuit.
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"Shop still open?" one fraternity brother wrote later.
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Jane Doe alleges in the lawsuit that some of the men pushed her to take ketamine until she was "completely incapacitated," and multiple men forced sex on her.
"
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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.
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My thought was that if I passed out and these men have sex with me, then they could have been charged with rape at this point," she would later say in a sworn six-page statement to Cornell police.
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In documents from Cornell's Title IX investigation, she described hiding under the covers in a bed as more men came into the room.
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"I was like literally cornered," she said.
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"I'm a naked woman and they are getting in bed with me.
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And I was like, what the [expletive] is happening?"
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She lost consciousness around 5:45 a.m., according to the lawsuit.
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Jane Doe said she awoke later and returned to her room at the sorority house.
She talked about it with roommates that morning, according to
into the matter, which were obtained by CBS News.
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One roommate recalls Doe saying, "Oh my goodness, isn't that crazy?"
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The roommate said Doe was laughing but seemed to be in shock.
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The roommate said Doe did not call it rape or assault that morning.
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"She was kind of recounting it as this sort of crazy thing she had done.
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And then, as the days went on, I think she kind of came to realize that it was something bad and that she didn't really enjoy her time there," the roommate said, according to the Title IX investigation transcript.
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A second roommate said Jane Doe told her, "I wasn't comfortable."
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The day after that, Jane Doe spoke about it with her sorority "big sister," saying: "You may hear some rumors about me, and unfortunately they are true."
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According to the Title IX documents, the woman said that Jane Doe had not processed what had happened to her yet.
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On Oct. 22, Jane Doe went to Cornell Health, the medical clinic on the school's campus, to address a urinary tract infection and was tested for sexually transmitted diseases, her lawyer, Thomas P. Giuffra, said.
"Ms. Doe disclosed to the treating health care professional that she contracted the UTI in a 'traumatic way,'" Giuffra said in the statement.
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Despite her reference to trauma, "all the medical professional … did was to advise Ms. Doe to 'speak with somebody,'" Giuffra claims.
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"She was not immediately referred for a rape kit," he said.
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"By the time she went for the rape kit on 11/7 all of the DNA evidence was gone."
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Oct. 22-23: Text messages on "how things went down"
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CBS News New York investigative reporter Mahsa Saeidi obtained screenshots from a source of
and one of the defendants accused of rape in the lawsuit.
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The messages were sent just a few days after the alleged assault.
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The man started by apologizing for "how things went down."
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…and 43 more, not listed.
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