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“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin backed an upstate New York district attorney’s 2024 decision to not bring charges against several Cornell University fraternity brothers accused of gang raping a fellow student in an explosive new lawsuit.Hostin claimed on the show Tuesday that there was “no way” Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten could have brought charges based on a statement the fraternity brothers’ accuser gave campus police after the alleged 2024 assault.“She allowed other boys and consented to other boys snorting ketamine off of her body,” said Hostin, a former federal prosecutor.“Under New York law, voluntary intoxication or drug use that merely impairs judgment does not legally constitute an inability to consent to sexual activity.”“If you voluntarily ingest drugs, voluntarily take alcohol, you can agree to have threesomes.
Which, in her statement, she agreed to have two separate threesomes,” she said.“There is no way, according to her statement in 2024, that any prosecutor would’ve brought forth a case.”Hostin was referring to portions of the accuser’s original 2024 report to campus police — which Van Houten released Monday to justify his original decision not to bring charges — where she described in lurid detail a night of drunken and drug-fueled sex with numerous brothers from Cornell’s Chi Phi fraternity.Despite explaining she was severely inebriated, the accuser never claimed any of the alcohol or ketamine she took that night had been forced on her or that the repeated bouts of sex with a revolving door of fraternity brothers were non-consensual, the DA reported.On the contrary, the accuser said several times that in her intoxicated state she consented to the sexual encounters with various brothers — in addition to saying yes to the drinks and drugs, according to the DA’s retelling.And Hostin — whose daughter currently attends Cornell — pointed out that under New York law, all of that mean...