Lurid new details in alleged Cornell gang rape exposed by DA as he battles threatening phone calls
An upstate district attorney on Monday exposed lurid new details about a Cornell University student’s alleged fraternity gang rape — blaming his extraordinary move on people flooding his office with phone calls.The seamy disturbing details were gleaned from a six-page statement that the “Jane Doe” accuser submitted to campus police in November 2024, about a week after she claimed seven Chi Phi fraternity brothers drugged and raped her during an hours-long gang assault at their Ithaca house.Embattled Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten — in releasing parts of her statement — insisted it provided no claims of criminal misconduct, leaving his office no choice but to pass on bringing any charges against the accused frat bros at the time.He said over the weekend — under intense public pressure — that he is now reopening the investigation only because of a civil suit she filed against the young men and school that provided alleged details his office did not know about.Van Houten’s statement Monday provided an excruciatingly detailed account of what the alleged victim said happened to her.“Male Number 1 brought Jane Doe to a ‘quiet area’ and ‘asked how [Jane Doe] would feel about having a threesome with two male partners,'” his office wrote, quoting the woman’s police report, which described how she met up with “Male 1” at his fraternity after a night at the bars.“Doe ‘agreed due to how attracted [she] was to [Male Number 1] on top of [her] drunken curiousness,'” it continued.“When she learned that Male Number 2 would be the third participant, Jane Doe ‘remembered being excited because [she] thought that [Male Number 1 and Male Number 2] wanting to have a threesome meant that they were gay.'”From there, the night descended into a scene of shocking bacchanal, with the group snorting ketamine off each other’s naked bodies and guzzling booze as they had sex — with some of the men struggling to stay conscious a...