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    "parsed_content": "Cornell Rape InvestigationWhat We\u00a0KnowUniversity Under PressureTimelineNew York\u2019s Rape LawsFraternity RespondsGreek Life CultureAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSupported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTCornell Police Report Omitted Student\u2019s Claim She Was RapedDocuments obtained by The New York Times show that the campus police at Cornell University sent a condensed statement to a prosecutor, who then declined to bring charges.Listen \u00b7 6:33 min Share full articleThe Cornell Police Department summarized hours of interviews with a woman who said she was raped into a six-page document that excluded key details. A local prosecutor did not pursue criminal charges based on that document.Credit...Heather Ainsworth for The New York TimesBy Hurubie MekoOct. 1, 2026Updated 9:40 a.m. ETSee 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 At a campus police department on Nov. 14, 2024, a Cornell University sophomore detailed how she found herself naked in a fraternity house nearly a month before, with a \u201cring of men\u201d around her. She was drunk and had been given ketamine, she said. Her phone was across the room.\u201cThere was really no escape,\u201d she said.The woman spoke for hours with an officer, telling him how what began as a consensual sexual encounter with a man she liked spiraled into a prolonged drug-fueled attack by several men inside the Chi Phi fraternity house.\u201cI don\u2019t remember the very end of the event where I was raped,\u201d she told them. \u201cI can say with 100 percent confidence I was raped.\u201dThe officer then condensed the interview into a six-page \u201cvoluntary statement\u201d written from her perspective, according to documents obtained by The New York Times. The student, after leaving about 20 handwritten corrections on a draft, signed a final version the next day.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTWhile the shorter statement explained that she felt some of that night\u2019s events were a crime, it omitted some of the more forceful and definitive language she used. And it was missing her unequivocal statement that she had been raped. The omission, which for a time seemed to end the case, instead now appears to have only delayed a case that has roiled the campus and renewed the national debate how colleges handle claims of sexual assault.That condensed statement was shared with the district attorney, Matthew Van Houten, who decided there was not enough evidence to bring criminal charges against the seven men. It looked like the case was over.Mr. Van Houten\u2019s decision in 2024 largely transpired quietly, through a process that is often shielded from public scrutiny. Cornell, though, conducted its own investigation. That investigation, which The Times has reviewed, concluded months after the woman dropped out of Cornell because of the incident.Then last month the woman, as Jane Doe, filed a lawsuit against Cornell, the seven men, the fraternity and her sorority. The lawsuit ricocheted online, plunging the university into a crisis and landing Mr. Van Houten\u2019s office in a maelstrom of criticism. Many in the public, including politicians and celebrities, began questioning what law enforcement officials knew about the woman\u2019s allegations two years ago and why a criminal case was never pursued.The men have not been charged criminally, and during the university investigation the men almost universally denied the accusations against them and said any sex that took place was consensual. Several of the men suggested that Jane Doe had not only initiated the sexual encounters, but in some cases, had done so without asking.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTMr. Van Houten has defended his office\u2019s decision, and said he wants to meet with the woman this week as he considers bringing new evidence to a grand jury.In a nine-page public statement on Monday, Mr. Van Houten said that the statement the woman provided at the time did not \u201callege she was drugged against her will or gang raped.\u201d\u201cOn the contrary, Jane Doe\u2019s statement described her participation in drug and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious, and consensual,\u201d he wrote.But in the documents reviewed by The Times, the Cornell police did not inform Mr. Van Houten\u2019s office that Jane Doe had said she had been raped. It\u2019s unclear what other conversations the police and district attorney\u2019s office had about the case.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTIn her interview with the police officer, Jane Doe described how Oct. 19, 2024, began with her filing an unrelated police report that her car keys and wallet had been stolen. After discovering one of her credit cards had been used, she said, she canceled all of them.When members of her sorority heard about the theft, they decided she would no longer be the designated sober sister tasked with keeping an eye on sorority sisters at a bar that evening, she recalled.She started drinking earlier in the night before heading to the bar, where the sorority was hosting an event, and she was served drinks even though she was underage, she said. She then briefly stopped at another bar before eventually trekking 20 minutes on foot to a fraternity house to meet a guy she was interested in. At around 10:30 p.m. to 11 p.m., she felt she was inebriated, she told the officer.She spotted the man she was looking for, she said, and they talked, drank and danced. Soon after, she went to a room and had a consensual sexual encounter with the man, and another man she knew from the fraternity, both of whom she thought were her friends, she said.But as the night progressed, there were more than the two men in the room and she began to feel used, she recalled. She could hear the men talking about taking turns with her, she said.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT\u201cI will never know who all touched me,\u201d she told the officer. \u201cI will not know.\u201dImageJane Doe spoke for hours with a police officer detailing how a consensual encounter with a man quickly spiraled into a prolonged drug-fueled attack inside the Chi Phi fraternity house.Credit...Heather Ainsworth for The New York TimesAt one point a group of men walked into the room where she was naked, she said.\u201cI was horrified, and I squealed and ran\u201d and hid under the covers of a bed, she said. She described how she had to swat one man\u2019s hands away throughout the night as he tried to grope her. The men snorted ketamine off her body, she said. It was the most intoxicated she had ever been in her life, she told the officer.At around 5:45 a.m., she said she wanted to go to bed and told two of the men, \u201cI gotta turn in.\u201d They stopped, she said.She said she woke up at 10 a.m., then was driven home shortly after.In the days after Jane Doe provided her statement to the police, officers tried to contact the men she accused, with varying degrees of success, according to the administrative documents.On Nov. 25, the officer who took Jane Doe\u2019s statement filed a document and said he contacted an investigator in the district attorney\u2019s office to talk.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe officer reported that he was told, based on a review of Jane Doe\u2019s statement, that the prosecutor\u2019s office had decided that \u201ccriminal charges would not be pursued in this case.\u201d\u201cNothing further at this time,\u201d he wrote.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT",
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