A bar that was accused of serving drinks to a Cornell student before she was allegedly gang raped at a fraternity has fired back at claims it plied her with alcohol.
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Moonies Bar and Nightclub in downtown Ithaca, New York, was alleged to have flouted underage drinking laws by the woman in a bombshell lawsuit she brought against her alleged rapists.
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The accuser, identified by the pseudonym Jane Doe, was 20 at the time, and said in her lawsuit that Moonies bouncers marked her hand to signify that she was underage.
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She claimed that bartenders went on to serve her copious alcohol 'to the point of visible intoxication', and she said she had the equivalent of 10 drinks in under three hours.
Jane Doe said she then 'stumbled alone' to the Chi Phi fraternity house, where she was allegedly gang raped by seven members over a hours-long ordeal.
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In a statement to the Daily Mail, Moonies denied the allegations and insisted it never 'unlawfully sold, furnished or assisted in procuring alcoholic beverages to any person under the legal drinking age.
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'Our bartenders strongly followed the rules and only served guests who had wristbands on their hands.
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No alcohol was served to guests who had mark on their hands,' the bar said.
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The bar owner added that Jane Doe briefly worked at another of his bars, and said she 'openly discussed the details' of her allegations at the time, but 'never mentioned being intoxicated or served alcohol by Moonies' bartender.
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It comes as the allegations brought by Jane Doe ignited a media firestorm at the Ivy League university, even as none of the seven men she accused of sexual assault have been charged with a crime over the incident from October 2024.
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they also deny all wrongdoing.
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Moonies Bar and Nightclub in downtown Ithaca, New York (inside seen in a stock image), which was accused of serving drinks to a Cornell student before she was allegedly gang raped at a fraternity, has fired back at claims it plied her with alcohol
The accuser, identified by the pseudonym Jane Doe, claimed she was served at the bar 'to the point of intoxication' before she went to the Chi Phi fraternity house (above) in October 2024
The level of intoxication Jane Doe reached on the night of her alleged rape has become central to her bombshell allegations.
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In audio released by ABC News, one of the accused Chi Phi fraternity brothers, Matthew Ingalls, was heard telling Jane Doe that he did not believe she was intoxicated when they had sex.
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In a phone call recorded by Jane Doe, Ingalls was heard telling her: '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.
'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 in the fraternity house, because there was 'so much damage on my body and my brain.'
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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 before she went to his fraternity house.
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Protests erupted on Cornell's campus this week amid backlash over the handling of the case
One of the men allegedly posted to the fraternity's active-members Snapchat group saying that there was 'free p***y' upstairs, referring to Doe, according to her lawsuit
Alongside Ingalls, the other Chi Phi fraternity brothers named by Jane Doe in her civil lawsuit are Jonathan Newell, Winston Lee, Gillio Lopes, Diego Sarabia, Scott Norris and Scott Kretzschmar.
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None have been arrested or charged with a crime in connection with the lawsuit, and the local district attorney dismissed the case and said there was 'insufficient evidence to support criminal charges' following an investigation at the time.
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Jane Doe initially gave a sworn statement to investigators saying that she consented to sex with two of the men, but felt increasingly incapacitated as the night went on and more men allegedly joined.
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In her civil lawsuit filed last month, Jane Doe alleged that she was pressured to snort ketamine and was sexually assaulted over a seven hour period.
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The newly released audio from ABC News shows Jane Doe asking Ingalls for details about the night, including asking how they ended up in a threesome in his fraternity house.
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Ingalls responded: '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.'
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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 who agreed, 'and then we go upstairs.'
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Jane Doe's civil lawsuit included harrowing allegations - that the 20-year-old sorority girl was drugged with ketamine and sexually assaulted by seven men over a seven-hour ordeal in a fraternity bedroom
Cornell University and local authorities have been heavily scrutinized for their handling of the case
Jane Doe alleges that several more Chi Phi fraternity brothers then joined them in the room periodically and joined in, and she alleged in a civil lawsuit that they advertised 'free p***y' in a Snapchat group chat.
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In the audio, Jane Doe told Ingalls she did not remember who all of the men were during the encounter, and said she recalled four men in a bed at one point with more stood around them.
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Ingalls responded: 'I have racked my brain for this mystery.
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You know, it's possible that both of us, like, remember this and it's not true.'
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Jane Doe argued back to this, saying: 'No, because I remember looking up and being like, 'That is too many people.'
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The audio showed that while Ingalls appeared to try and calm Jane Doe's feelings about the incident, he did not mention that he texted his fraternity group chat during the alleged assault, according to Jane Doe's lawsuit.
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He allegedly posted a photo of Jane Doe to the fraternity group chat, and said, 'Boys come whip it out', the lawsuit alleges.
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Ingalls and another student were expelled following an investigation into the alleged assault and two others were suspended.
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Two others were found to not be involved, and one had graduated so could not be punished by the university.
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However, after the initial review was carried out, Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten declined to bring charges and dropped the case.
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Van Houten said there was 'insufficient evidence to support criminal charges', and said investigators determined that the sexual activity inside the fraternity house was consensual.
Van Houten also said Jane Doe's claims in her civil lawsuit are 'dramatically different' than her statements to police two years ago.
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The decision not to charge the fraternity brothers has since come under scrutiny, leading Van Houten to defend the move in a statement last month, saying the furor over the case has led the public to believe 'incomplete' facts.
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Van Houten insisted that Jane Doe's sworn statement in November 2024 'did not allege that she was drugged against her will or gang raped', and said she described her actions as 'voluntary, conscious, and consensual.'
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