The woman who accused Cornell University fraternity members of gang raping her at a 2019 Hawaiian-themed party was texting her roommate during the alleged assault.
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The accuser, only identified in court documents as Jane Doe, claimed she was coerced into taking drugs and sexually assaulted by seven members of the now-defunct Chi Phi fraternity on October 19, 2024.
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She alleged in a civil lawsuit last month that the sexual assault lasted for seven hours straight, starting around 11pm and continuing until around 5.45am the next day.
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But text messages obtained by TMZ show Jane Doe responded to her roommate at the Delta Delta Delta sorority at 3.05am - about a half hour to an hour after she said multiple men snorted ketamine off her body and she was too inebriated to process what was happening.
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The unidentified roommate asked her at the time: 'You coming home tn [tonight]?'
Doe then replied, 'idk,' shorthand for 'I don't know.'
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One of the men that Doe is accusing of raping her that night now argues that the text message proves that she was able to read, process and respond to messages - and was therefore not as drunk and high as she claims, according to TMZ.
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When Doe then still was not home at around 11.15am on October 20, her roommate shared a photo of their room to social media with the caption: 'It was a good night when only one out of three of us made it back.'
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A woman identified in court documents only as Jane Doe claimed she was gang raped at the Chi Phi fraternity house (pictured) at Cornell University on October 19, 2024
But in a written statement to Cornell police, the alleged victim said she had arrived at the fraternity house at 'about a five out of 10 level of intoxication' after taking several shots of alcohol with her sorority sisters and getting a mixed drink at a bar in downtown Ithaca, New York.
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The bar has since denied any wrongdoing.
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She then engaged in a threesome with defendants Matthew Ingalls and Jonathan Newell, but said the interaction spiraled out of control as more fraternity members entered the room.
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By 1.42am, Newell allegedly posted in a fraternity Snapchat group that there was 'free p***y' upstairs.
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In the aftermath, Doe said she recalled two other men entering the room, grabbing and kissing her, with one of the men then also engaging in another threesome with Doe and another man.
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She described in her written statement to police obtained by NBC News how she felt 'super isolated' and like she 'didn't matter as a person to these men.'
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I had become extremely uncomfortable with how this night was turning out and so my thought was, "If I do ketamine again, maybe I will pass out,"' Doe confided in her written statement.
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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.'
Meanwhile, at around 2.30am, more members of the fraternity's group chat started to ask about what was happening in the room – to which Ingalls reportedly replied: 'Boys, come whip it out.'
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The night began with Jane Doe having a threesome with Matthew Ingalls (left) and Jonathan Newell (right)
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She claimed the night took a turn when Newell allegedly posted in a fraternity Snapchat group that there was 'free p***y' upstairs
Back inside the bedroom, Doe said men started snorting drugs off of her body while she was 'feeling extremely tired' and covering her face with her hands.
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Later, she said, one man who lived in the bedroom with another man entered and said 'something like "OK we're shutting down whatever the f**k this is"' after which 'the group of men all began to scatter.
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Still, she said, two of the men ushered Doe upstairs to what she said she thought was the fraternity president's office, where the three took ketamine.
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Doe said she then felt 'extremely high' as the two men 'were asking me to have sex so many times that I finally gave in.'
'To me, that felt like coercion,' she told police.
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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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The sexual encounter was said to have lasted until roughly 5.45am, when Doe went to sleep in one of the rooms at the fraternity house.
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When Doe then returned to her sorority house, her sisters asked what had happened to her at the party - to which Doe said she simply replied 'ketamine.'
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The accuser submitted a six-page written statement to campus police.
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Students are pictured walking past Cornell Police headquarters
But later that day, Doe said in her statement, she learned that what had happened to her the night before had become common knowledge after members of Chi Phi bragged about having an 'eightsome' with her.
'It was now obvious that everyone knew it was me that this had happened to,' Doe recounted in her written statement.
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In the aftermath, she said she went to Cornell Health to be tested for sexually transmitted diseases.
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At that appointment, she told her doctor she contracted a UTI in a 'traumatic fashion.
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'At the end of the day none of the sexual stuff was illegal, and honestly i really liked being w u and matt,' she wrote in one message to Newell.
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'I don't think we should feel any shame for the part.
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our body our choice asf,' she wrote.
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In a separate message to Ingalls, she suggested that people were speaking out about the incident because they were jealous.
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'But also like everyone needs to grow up cause sexuality and sex and s**t is changing and stuff like this is going to become more common,' she wrote, before telling Ingalls: 'I luv u king.'
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Protests swept the country after Jane Doe's allegations went public.
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Demonstrators are pictured at a Stop Sexual Violence protest at the Washington Monument last Thursday
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Cornell University officials have been criticized for their response to the woman's allegations
Her attorney, Thomas Giuffra, however, told the Daily Mail that the messages do not suggest that the sexual intercourse was consensual.
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He instead argued that Jane Doe was showing 'classic symptoms of delayed recognition' about the gravity of the incident, meaning it took some time for her to realize that she had been the victim of an alleged crime.
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'This is a well-known phenomenon which is widely reported in medical and psychological literature,' the attorney said.
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'Most rape survivors do not immediately identify what happened to them as rape.'
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Cornell officials wound up launching a monthslong probe into Jane Doe's allegations.
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At least 12 formal hearings were held from January to May 2025 and saw faculty and staff review the evidence.
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…and 7 more, not listed.
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