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    "parsed_content": "Cornell Rape InvestigationWhat We\u00a0KnowTimelineSpecial ProsecutorTakeaways From Inquiry\u2018Jane Doe\u2019Men Accused in LawsuitAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSupported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTCornell Documents Raise Questions About Handling of Rape AllegationsMore than 1,000 pages of documents obtained by The New York Times show how a woman identified as Jane Doe gradually concluded that what had happened to her at a fraternity party was a crime.Listen \u00b7 5:50 min Share full articleNew revelations about the handling of Jane Doe\u2019s allegations have stirred outrage at Cornell.Credit...Heather Ainsworth for The New York TimesBy Andy NewmanEmma Goldberg and Troy ClossonOct. 1, 2026See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra m\u00e1s de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de b\u00fasqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google As fresh details emerged on Thursday about Cornell University\u2019s internal investigation into allegations of a 2024 campus sexual assault, some students, alumni and victims\u2019 advocates called into question the handling of the case by university and law enforcement authorities.\u201cI\u2019m reading through all of these things, and all of the steps she\u2019s taken to report this, and my thought is, Has the system failed yet another survivor?\u201d said Alet Haywood, director of the Domestic Violence Law Unit at the New York Legal Assistance Group, which represents sexual violence victims in court.The new details are contained in more than 1,000 pages of documents compiled for Cornell\u2019s Title IX administrative hearing process that were obtained by The New York Times. They describe the accuser, who is identified in court filings as Jane Doe, gradually concluding over the course of several weeks that what had happened between her and seven young men at a drug- and alcohol-fueled party at the Chi Phi fraternity house was not only not OK, but a crime.The documents include the 120-page transcript of Jane Doe\u2019s hourslong interview, conducted nearly a month after the party, with a Cornell police investigator and an investigator from the university\u2019s Title IX office, which ensures the school\u2019s compliance with federal sex discrimination rules.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTDuring the interview, she states, \u201cI can say with 100 percent confidence I was raped\u201d and, at another point, \u201cThere was really no escape.\u201d Cornell summarized the interview in a six-page report to prosecutors that omitted the rape allegation.On Cornell\u2019s campus in Ithaca, N.Y., on Thursday, Oliver Physioc-Fox, 19, a freshman, said the allegations had been a constant topic of conversation among friends and classmates. Nearly everyone he had spoken to, he said, was surprised that Cornell had not seemed to do more to discipline the accused, who the university said received a range of punishments, including suspensions and expulsions.\u201cOne hundred percent of people I\u2019ve talked to have been pretty disappointed and want a lot more from the administration,\u201d he said. \u201cI had a sense of security that wasn\u2019t warranted.\u201dNone of the accused men has been charged with a crime, and all have denied wrongdoing. Four said that they had consensual sexual contact at the party with the woman, and the others denied participating.The Tompkins County district attorney\u2019s office, which declined to pursue a criminal case in 2024, said this week that it was reopening its investigation into the episode after the men were named in a lawsuit filed by Jane Doe last month against the university, the Chi Phi fraternity, seven of its members and her sorority.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTCornell announced on Wednesday that it would hire outside lawyers to investigate her claims.Ms. Haywood said that the fact that it had taken Jane Doe weeks to conclude that she had been raped, and that she initially exchanged friendly texts with some of the men she later accused of assaulting her, were normal responses to the shock of sexual assault.\u201cWe know that it\u2019s not uncommon for someone to experience something traumatic, something abusive, some form of assault, and still be in a position where they are engaging with the person who has harmed them, or they don\u2019t immediately come to the conclusion that what they have experienced is a traumatic event or is something that would constitute a crime,\u201d she said.Sami Sage, a Cornell alumna who graduated in 2011 and helped start a women-run media company called Betches, said of Jane Doe\u2019s delayed reaction to the assault: \u201cIn my mind, I can see exactly how the situation went down. All of this is explained by standard trauma responses.\u201dOn Thursday, fallout from the accusations continued and spread beyond the campus. Representative Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, canceled a planned Oct. 15 event in New York City with the university\u2019s Institute of Politics and Global Affairs because of concerns about Cornell\u2019s response to the assault allegations, a person close to Ms. Pelosi said on Thursday. The cancellation was first reported by The Cornell Daily Sun, a student newspaper.Atakan Deviren, a senior who was suspended from the university for protesting at a career fair at which defense contractors were represented in 2024 \u2014 around the same time that Jane Doe\u2019s allegations first surfaced \u2014 said that the media attention flooding the school this week was shining a welcome spotlight.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT\u201cI think these are issues that the student body have known for the last couple of years,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s just something that the rest of the world is beginning to see as well.\u201dMr. Deviren recalled having told a university administrator back in 2024 that \u201cit is insane that student protesters are given far more draconian sentences\u201d than some of the men accused in the lawsuit.Ava Farkash, a senior, said the news of Jane Doe\u2019s lawsuit unnerved some students who were on campus in 2024 and remembered receiving the crime alert about the alleged assault.\u201cReading the statement from Jane Doe, I was shocked the D.A. didn\u2019t proceed with having a case,\u201d Ms. Farkash said.Ms. Farkash also said that students were growing increasingly concerned by the lack of information from university administrators, especially as members of the national news media blanket the campus.\u201cCornell keeps saying, \u2018We can\u2019t disclose information,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cYou have an entire student body incredibly frustrated.\u201dCole Louison contributed reporting.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT",
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