Cornell police drafted requests to get phone records pertaining to the alleged gang rape case which may not have been shared with prosecutors, a new report claimed.
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Letters written by Cornell University Police were addressed to Verizon and T-Mobile about a week after a female student, identified only as Jane Doe, reported that she had allegedly been sexually assaulted at the Chi Phi fraternity house in 2024, documents obtained by CNN stated.
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The letters, addressed on November 15, 2024, stated that the agency was 'investigating a sexual assault incident, wherein it is believed that the account/phone number listed below may contain evidence pertinent to the ongoing investigation,' the outlet reported.
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Police also said they would send a signed warrant within 30 days and asked the companies to 'preserve all available data,' including text messages, emails, phone calls, pictures, and video messages associated with the accounts, according to the report.
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But it remains unclear if those drafted letters were ever sent to Verizon and T-Mobile, and if the Ivy League campus police ever followed up with subpoenas.
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It is also unclear whether Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten knew about the police agency's records request.
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Van Houten initially investigated the sexual assault allegation and declined to file charges against the accused.
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The office has since reopened the case.
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Jane Doe's attorney told CNN that his client recorded several calls with the accused men involved in the case that has garnered national attention since she filed a lawsuit last month against them, the university, and others.
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Cornell University Police drafted letters to Verizon and T-Mobile about a week after a female student, identified only as Jane Doe, reported that she had allegedly been sexually assaulted at the Chi Phi fraternity house (pictured) in 2024, documents obtained by CNN stated
Protests have broken out across the campus in the wake of the lawsuit that was filed by Jane Doe last month
Some correspondence between Jane Doe and the men has since been revealed, including a phone call that she shared with Matthew Ingalls.
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Ingalls had invited the alleged victim to the frat house on October 19, 2024, before he allegedly drugged and raped her.
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He was later expelled from the university.
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While university police investigated Jane Doe's claim that she was sexually assaulted, Ingalls said he was too intoxicated to consent to any sexual intercourse, according to records obtained by ABC News.
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He then even suggested that Jane Doe may have assaulted him.
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But in a phone call obtained by Cornell University police, Ingalls was heard insisting to the victim: 'You did tell me you were sober, by the way.'
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The audio showed differing recollections of the alleged attack, as Jane Doe told Ingalls that he 'already knew I was 10 shots deep' when he and six others allegedly sexually assaulted her.
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'If I wanted to take this somewhere, what y'all did would be classified as gang rape,' she told him in one message.
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Jane Doe also told Ingalls she had spent time in the emergency room and in therapy following the alleged assault because there was 'so much damage on my body and my brain.'
Activists shattered windows and vandalized buildings with red-painted messages condemning patriarchy and the Ivy League school's handling of sexual assaults, photos showed
Ingalls pleaded his innocence in the call with Jane Doe, telling her that she convinced him she was not intoxicated and 'hadn't been anywhere' that night, which she disputed.
Yet Jane Doe could be heard in the audio asking Ingalls for details about the night, including how they ended up in a threesome in his fraternity house.
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'So, you come in, say hi, and we start dancing for maybe like three to five minutes...
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And then I pop the question, you say yes,' he replied.
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He said they 'didn't know who else to bring' into the threesome, so he found another man on the dancefloor [sic] who agreed, 'and then we go upstairs.'
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That other man involved in the alleged threesome was Jonathan Newell, who has also been accused of sending out a Snapchat message to a group chat with more than 50 frat members that night that read 'Free p****', referring to Jane Doe, according to the lawsuit reviewed by the Daily Mail.
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Newell was also expelled.
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Five others allegedly engaged in sexual acts with Jane Doe while she was incapacitated and without her consent, the female student told investigators, per the filing.
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Winston Lee, another frat brother named in the lawsuit, was suspended for two years and faced several semesters of disciplinary probation when he returned to campus, according to disciplinary summaries seen by The New York Times.
Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten initially investigated the sexual assault allegation and declined to file charges against the accused
Gillio Lopes was suspended for three semesters, followed by two years of probation.
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Both of them were also ordered to write essays and study sexual harassment, the summaries stated.
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Jane Doe has also accused Diego Sarabia of forcibly kissing her that night, according to the lawsuit.
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He was banned from campus for three years, and a persona non grata order was issued against him after he graduated at the time of the panel's ruling, the outlet stated.
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The other two men, Scott Noris and Scott Kretzschmar, were told they can not be in contact with Jane Doe, also had to write essays, and had to study sexual harassment and social media use and bystander intervention as a result of the school's investigation two years ago.
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The fraternity chapter has since been banned from campus following the school's investigation.
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Since the allegations came to light in September, protests have broken out across the campus.
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Activists shattered windows and vandalized buildings with red-painted messages condemning patriarchy and the Ivy League school's handling of sexual assaults on Monday, photos showed.
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When approached for comment, a Cornell University spokesperson told the Daily Mail: 'We do not have anything further to say due to the active investigation.'
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The Daily Mail also reached out to the Cornell University Police Department, the Tompkins County District Attorney's Office, Verizon and T-Mobile for comment.
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