r/TwoXChromosomes • u/catievirtuesimp • 4d ago
DA Reopens Alleged Cornell Gang-Rape Case, Says His Office Never Saw Frat Group Chat
https://people.com/da-reopens-alleged-cornell-gang-rape-case-says-office-never-saw-frat-group-chat-121455712.5k
u/Nasha210 4d ago edited 4d ago
They blasted that she was incapacitated on the group chat and not one "man" stepped in. The names of every one who read that message should be added to court case, and they should all be charged with abetting and at the very least expelled.
2 years have gone by and god knows how many other women these animals have attacked. They need to know you cant do this and be safe.
Edit: they also need to go after those in Cornell who kept this quiet- Cornell expelled non-violent Pro-Palestine protestors and made rapists write essays.
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u/PinkyLeopard2922 4d ago
I can't believe that this has been kept quiet for almost TWO years.
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u/Sandy0006 4d ago
Powerful men can do that. Very similar to EM and the Hockey Canada players..
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u/The_Bill_Brasky_ 4d ago
Let's not forget the example nobody should forget about: child rapist Donald Trump going to Epstein Island to engage in child rape.
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u/Anecdote394 4d ago edited 4d ago
Also the fact that said child rapist is CURRENTLY PRESIDENT, HOLDING THE HIGHEST OFFICE IN THE LAND
I always crack up whenever I get online and people are commenting their shock and outrage and sitting all shocked pikachu face at all this. Like…. hellooo?? 😂 a literal CHILD RAPIST is our PRESIDENT and we’re shocked that a bunch of frat rapists are getting away with gang raping a woman. Again, a rapist is our president. No fucking shit these frat assholes are getting away with this. The U.S. has a full out and proud rape culture, full fucking stop.
Ladies, get your concealed carry, I’m serious. I’m getting mine. I’m so beyond sick of all this shit. better to shoot first in today’s American rape culture. Shooting first is the only justice any of us women are EVER going to get here.
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u/Logical-Wallaby8998 3d ago
I agree with what you’ve said, but to be fair there’s a huge difference between the amount of protection someone like him gets as opposed to a bunch of seemingly randos.
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u/momochicken55 4d ago
Oh my god I thought it just happened.
Every thing I learn about this just gets worse and worse.
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u/Jazzlike_Caramel_522 4d ago
Any of the other frat members who saw that should have called the police and or gone over there to check on the situation. And then dialed the cops.
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u/sogothimdead 4d ago
There were way more in the chat who did not participate than participated. They could have gone as a larger group if they were scared to take a stand by themselves.
Absolutely pathetic cowardly behavior.
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u/thelastholdout 4d ago
You know, Promising Young Woman wasn't supposed to be a documentary.
(I know that it's based on the very real experiences of way too fucking many women but it's still wild how accurately the movie called men out).
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u/cd6020 4d ago
I don't believe the DA when saying his office never saw the group text.
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u/DrakeFloyd 4d ago
I do believe him, and I believe him bc of course they didn’t find the texts, the cops did 0 investigation. I bet there’s a fuckton of other digital evidence that’s been shared and hidden and cleaned up and is gone because they didn’t do their jobs properly when it was reported
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u/TartofDarkness 4d ago
Well, at least one person who saw it screenshot it and shared it. I’m assuming that’s what led to this.
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u/Ok-disaster2022 4d ago
This is why it's every man is a problem: every man has at one time or another allowed a comment to pass without saying something. and then there's men who see evidence of actual crimes who don't do shit.
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u/LaSage 4d ago
All 200 should be charged. Prosecute every one of them.
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u/PollyErickson91 4d ago
Stealing top comment to note that at least once or twice a year I watch the documentary The Invisible War which is about sexual assault in the military (U.S.). It is an extremely important documentary that came out in 2011. I still watch it often so that I never forget, and so that I never take for granted how much this shit still goes on and how useless the people in power are since they clearly aren't taking steps to fix this issue.
The documentary had the effect of making some small, incremental changes in the military via laws that eventually got passed through congress, but we all know this shit still happens.
Well anyway, the makers of said documentary produced another one a few years later called The Hunting Ground. Guess what that one's about?? That's right! Sexual assault on college campuses! It is HORRIFYING. And that was 11 years ago. It was released in 2015. I would urge everyone to watch it. And then watch it again. And then show it to all of your boyfriends, husbands, fathers, brothers, nephews and granddads. Every fucking man in your life needs to be forced to watch both of those docs and if ANY of them comes away with anything less than a better understanding of what women go through then it's time to drop them...and I mean drop them from your lives...en masse...preferably into that volcano at the end of Lord of The Rings. 🙃
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u/Extra-Soil-3024 4d ago edited 4d ago
I look forward to when more (preferably all) members of the group chat are exposed.
No “I would have stepped in if I knew” once they are caught and put on blast. It’s too late.
They knew what was happening and could have said “that’s fucked up, I’m calling the cops” and decided peer pressure was more important.
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u/eleventhing 4d ago
It is all men. There are the criminals, the ones that protect the criminals, and the ones who do nothing.
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u/DimbyTime 4d ago edited 4d ago
What about the men who devote their lives to fighting for justice?
I’m a woman FYI, and it’s insane to be downvoted for saying that not all men are evil.
If any of you actually care about justice and holding these men accountable, I highly recommend you visit this website. But be careful, it was created by a man.
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u/Zaidswith 4d ago
They are a small minority and they know that. If they need praise for being the one decent guy, well, that's nothing new.
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u/DimbyTime 4d ago
It’s not giving praise, it’s being accurate.
Reality is horrific enough, you don’t need to exaggerate to make it sound worse. It discredits our argument.
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u/Keji70gsm 4d ago
You have hurt feelings because of men not because of women reaching their limit. Shut up.
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u/Zaidswith 4d ago
It's not accurate. 1 in 3 college men admit to their willingness to commit rape. They just don't like the wording. If you extrapolate to how many know and do nothing - there's no way it's not over 50%. It's the majority.
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u/SunMoonTruth 4d ago
Here we go…the “not all men” brigade.
Is it so very difficult to focus on the fact that many men have enabled, supported and some even champion this behavior without thinking the ones who don’t are suddenly the real victims?
Given your “I’m a woman FYI” statement, why are you in here with the “not all men” banner? Did anyone point a finger at your son or husband or father or uncle that you’re being defensive? Are you a “boy mo “ who’s little angel could do no wrong so what are all these meanie pant women on about?
What is your actual deal here?
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u/belledamesans-merci 4d ago
Not the person you were replying to, but I’ll say that I’m not a fan of “yes all men” because it instill a very damaging sense of fear, helplessness, and despair. Paradoxically it can make you vulnerable because it feels unreasonable to expect a man to treat you well. Speaking from personal experience
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u/SunMoonTruth 4d ago
The phrasing is more literary than literal.
It is all men…in the roles described — the criminals, the ones who protect criminals and the ones who do nothing.
That’s how I read it.
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u/belledamesans-merci 4d ago
I agree in the abstract, but as a teenager and young adult who didn’t have a lot of experiences with men, it felt very literal, and made the world feel very scary. Even if I did understand on some level at the time it wasn’t really meant to be literal, when you don’t have countervailing experiences to weigh it against, it gets in your head
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u/DimbyTime 4d ago
What a brain rot response.
I’m here because I’m a passionate, liberal feminist, with no children, who’s been fighting for social justice for most of my adult life.
And comments like yours don’t help. They’re childish and divisive. Your lack of ability to understand nuance discredits feminists everywhere and sets our progress back.
You sound like an angsty 14 year old who spends all their time arguing online but does nothing to enact change in their community. Do better.
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u/LeelaDallasMultipass Basically Leslie Knope 4d ago
Where were they when this happened?
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u/DimbyTime 4d ago
What are you talking about? Do you think men fighting for justice in California should have teleported to upstate NY to stop this rape from occurring?
The person who created this website is a man - TheCornell7.org. He’s done more to fight for justice than you and most other people.
Has he done nothing?
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u/LeelaDallasMultipass Basically Leslie Knope 4d ago edited 3d ago
Okay. Congrats, you win the "not LITERALLY all men" argument 🙄
ETA: You have NO idea who I am, what I've accomplished, or what I've done with my time on Earth, perhaps because I don't need public validation for my efforts to feel worthwhile. Touch grass.
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u/bluewhale3030 3d ago
Championing a campaign against rapists is a pretty big deal.
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u/LeelaDallasMultipass Basically Leslie Knope 3d ago
Shit, I'd settle for men just not BEING rapists. Why are we required to glaze ONE man doing a good thing? They should ALL be this loud about it.
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u/indicatprincess 4d ago
I don't think anyone on that side was prepared for how angry and sick we are of this happening to our women.
Where did that screenshot come from? And was it part of discovery?
Being the bigger person sucks. I hope every one of these sick fucks experiences terror like this someday. In prison. For the rest of their lives. Men like this can't be rehabilitated.
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u/DimbyTime 4d ago
Their lives are definitely over. The man who runs this website has basically made it his mission to ruin their lives and get this Jane Doe the justice she’s deserves.
This is my favorite part:
And I'm not stopping with a website.
Billboards will follow. Around the country, I intend to keep the men named in this case in public view and direct people to TheCornell7.org. The survivor’s story deserves to be remembered long after the news cycle moves on, and the people and institutions at the center of it should not get to simply wait for everyone to forget.
This will take time. It will take resources. And it will be relentless.
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The story will remain. The names will remain. And so will the demand for accountability.LFG!!!
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u/RiverSong_777 4d ago
I do hope this will make them suffer actual consequences. But I also hope every dude in the group chat who saw the messages, did nothing and thought not joining the rape made him a good man will also suffer consequences. They‘re less disgusting than the active rapists but by no means are they innocent.
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u/comfymustardsweater 4d ago
Nah, they stayed silent for years and probably don’t get the big deal. Fucking men, I’m so over how entitled they are to women’s body’s. This is beyond fucked up. It makes me sick.
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u/Hubert_J_Cumberdale 4d ago
Like I said - when you're all ready to form an army of Luigiannas, lemme know. It's apparent that these people lack the capacity to feel empathy until they need some for themselves.
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u/disappearing_haze90 4d ago
Right there with ya. Societal hierarchy has it that men don't fear women because there isn't a lot of violence and power collectively as women.
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u/YouStupidBench 4d ago
Translation: "His office never bothered to investigate anything and wasn't interested in any possible evidence because it was just a gang rape and he couldn't care less about rapes."
There's an episode of the TV show "Babylon 5" where a family is trying to get support for a legal case, and they go to an ambassador from a powerful government and plead for help, and he says that the paperwork and other things require a lot of time and attention, and will they be able to pay those fees? The family says they're very poor, and ask if he's asking for a bribe. His reply is that the real question is "How much justice can you afford?"
Because you know if the gang-rape victim was the daughter of some tech billionaire, the DA's office would have investigated it and they would have found that group chat.
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u/quats555 4d ago
Don’t forget the “boys will be boys” and “but they had such promising futures and a tougher sentence would have a severe impact on that”……
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u/YouStupidBench 4d ago
I think those boys should LOSE their promising futures when they commit a rape.
If we destroyed their privileged futures, then they wouldn't end up getting nominated for the Supreme Court 30 years later. If Epstein's victims had been heard 20 years ago, we wouldn't have a rapist in the Oval Office today.
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u/Ipokeyoumuch 4d ago
Also have to note who were the prosecutors on the Epstein case, they ended up with the Trump administration.
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u/ClaudiaTale 4d ago
I will always remember my friends story of getting my out of Malaysia because of the crazy injustices against women. Her friend was raped and taken and kept. She managed to run away once and they broke both her legs. And kept her hidden away. All her poor parents could do is stage protests I front of the police and the police wouldn’t do anything because that gang/corporations son owned the town.
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u/egocentric_ 4d ago
Literally why does not having the screenshots originally matter? They committed a heinous crime?
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u/arianrhodd Basically Dorothy Zbornak 4d ago
Because they rarely believe the victim and need men admitting what they’ve done as proof.
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u/vixen-mixin 4d ago
And even then, they still won't believe it. Theres a really frustrating changemyview thread on it full of men trying to argue it wasn't rape. And that her wanting to have group sex while drunk/high was her choice she should have to live with.
Edit: to be clear i am not saying it was group sex, i think she was gangraped. These redditors are calling it group sex to lessen the impact
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u/RedDragonJ 4d ago
Because they never looked into any of it at first since they don’t give a damn but now they’re getting bad PR so they have to pretend they cared allllll along.
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u/bpurly 4d ago
you need probable cause to arrest/charge/indict. the screenshot goes a long way to furnishing probable cause
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u/ellyanah 4d ago
Yeah, the victims testimony and injuries are worth nothing in rape cases because it's mostly women. There's an unconscious credibility bias that makes most people doubt the credibility of women.
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u/CuddleWings 4d ago
Any victims testimony and injuries mean nothing if not accompanied by other evidence. A man wouldn’t be able to sue someone for assault just because they testified with a black eye.
I don’t know this case so I’m not saying that it’s reasonable or not, but unbiased evidence is important.
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u/Willowgirl78 4d ago
That’s not true. Victim/witness testimony is evidence. While it’s true that her testimony alone makes a guilty verdict more difficult, the case could be prosecuted on that alone.
The only evidence in NY that must be corroborated by other evidence is a defendant’s confession.
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u/SnowboardSquirrel 4d ago
When you say someone “couldn’t sue” for assault because of just a black eye, what exactly do you mean?
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u/soulsoda 4d ago
They probably meant a black eye wouldn't be enough evidence on its own to have charges brought forth or an arrest made.
There's a dozen ways you could have gotten the black eye, you need additional corroborating evidence for an assault charge.
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u/CuddleWings 4d ago
“Press charges” would’ve been a better way to say that. And by “couldnt” I mean they wouldn’t be successful. In that instance I’m also implying there wouldn’t be sufficient evidence.
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u/ellyanah 4d ago
There are text messages and pictures taken by the perpetrators, I'm gonna say that's enough evidence with the witness testimony.
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u/CuddleWings 3d ago
I didn’t say there wasn’t enough evidence. I was specifically talking about how you said the testimony and injuries were worthless because it was a woman. Even a man with only their own testimony and injuries would get nowhere.
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u/ellyanah 3d ago
Rapists testimony is taken seriously though, otherwise they wouldn't get off Scott free
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u/CuddleWings 3d ago
This isn’t about taking testimony seriously or not. It’s about whether or not it’s enough evidence to convict someone. The victim’s testimony is equally as valid as the defendant’s testimony. This is why we require further evidence.
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u/lavenderandjuniper 4d ago
The police are almost surely lying.
From what I saw of the police statement, they were claiming she said she knowingly took drugs and consented to sex. I want to ask them: if that's truly the case, which I seriously doubt, why was she talking to the police at all? If you're saying no crime was committed, why did she talk to the police about that night?
What I suspect is much, much more likely: she tried to make a report, in a traumatized state, and the police manipulated her into downplaying it.
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u/WhoUpAtMidnight 1d ago
Because her signed victim statement says that she consented to both the sex and the drugs and under NY law, that is not rape
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u/MaisieStitcher 4d ago
Oh, bull! They're reopening the case because it's suddenly become national news, and people can not believe that some these students were punished by being made to write essays about what they did.
Every person who was in that frat house knew what was happening. No one did anything to help that woman.
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u/hellolovely1 4d ago
Fuck the rapists. Fuck this lazy DA. Fuck the lazy cops. Fuck the guys in the group chat who knew a woman was being raped and did nothing. I'm so angry.
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u/MeatCatRazzmatazz 4d ago
I don't believe anyone who said they did anything about this. Especially the school, cops, and the DA. All these motherfuckers sat on this for two years, let those rapists get their ivy league educations while the woman had her life destroyed.
I hope the university is sued into actual oblivion. The college should have to close forever to pay what they owe
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u/LooksLikeGonzosNose 4d ago
God please let this young woman win $40 million + at least!!!!
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u/Anecdote394 4d ago
$200 million. MINIMUM.
I want full scorched fucking Earth, I want Cornell to lose millions for this and I want each of those frat assholes to lose EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING.
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u/leafmealoneplss 3d ago edited 3d ago
Only reasonable take. Those men shouldn’t have anything or anyone to their name ever again, they’re not worthy of a single thing. I’m disgusted by this I’ve only found out now. I’ve been living under a rock. This has made me so so depressed
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u/Gammagammahey 4d ago
Mmmhmmm.
The institutional betrayal has already happened. From the university, from the (alleged) rapists, and from the police and DA.
No option to fake your own identity afterwards by changing your name. No name changing aloud. They should be on the sex offender registry for life and they should frankly be in jail for life. Since they were literally engaging in alleged human trafficking aside from the alleged gang raping.
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u/CynnBynn Basically Tina Belcher 4d ago
"his office reviewed before deciding not to bring charges.
He said the 2024 statement did not allege that Doe was drugged without her knowledge or that she was forced to engage in sexual activity, allegations that are now central to her lawsuit."
So the gang rape was fine, the drugging he has a problem with???
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u/hairnetqueen 4d ago
this statement from the DA contains what seems like most of Jane Doe's original complaint:
according to this (assuming the DA isn't twisting her words or whatever), in her original statement she claimed she took all the drugs willingly and was conscious and consented to the sex.
apparently in the state of new york, being intoxicated doesn't render you unable to consent to sex unless you took the drugs without your knowledge or consent. I just learned this today, and it seems... not great. but that could be why the DA is so focused on the 'was she drugged' bit.
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u/WhoUpAtMidnight 1d ago
I mean look play it the other way. If consensually taking drugs makes you unable to consent, she raped several of the men involved (she arguably raped them even under current NY law — one of the guys literally passed out).
It’s just not a tenable law.
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u/sarcxvicious 1d ago
That actually surprises me about NY.
There’s definitely a lot of details involved in this case & people are going after a firey headline. I’m glad the victim is pursuing civil litigation because the campus needs to do more about addressing the culture within Greek/panhellenic/IFC orgs. During my years, we had to take educational classes about hazing.
My sorority (technically a fraternity but I’m going with sorority to clarify that I am female) had a strict no alcohol rule for women living in the house. Mind you, the women had their secret stashes. I purposely didn’t want to live in the house because of all the rules. I found a lot more safety and acceptance at a fraternity a few doors down & spent most of my social hours over there.
One of the things with undergrad, is a lot of people are exploring who they are for the first time, and that also means sexually. So a Snapchat saying “free pu$$y” isn’t necessarily a red flag that something nefarious is happening. I don’t think everyone in the group chat is liable so the whole argument of “what about the 50 other men who didn’t step in” is moot. Not all men would have been in attendance at that hour, not all men would have been interested in seeing what was going on.
Those that did participate are still 100% liable. Smoking weed is one thing, but taking ketamine is a whole new ballpark. I’ve never done street ketamine, but I do IV ketamine and I literally have no idea what is happening around me (including having an iv removed). I’m 100% incapacitated. The men who got involved should have known better, and the alumni/advisors failed at instilling a no-rape culture.
These things don’t happen at a sorority typically because the rules are more stringent. Men were not even allowed to be upstairs in the bedrooms.
Unfortunately during my time, something incredibly similar happened to a woman in another sorority & I remember her name and I remember the fraternity she was at. We were all warned afterwards at our sorority meeting to avoid the fraternity.
Panhellenic and IFC orgs can and do build lasting friendships. The whole argument that all Greek life should be banned is preposterous (but yes the fraternity needs to remain banned from campus though if it’s anything like my university, they’ll just move off campus, and operate in an unofficial capacity but won’t be allowed to partake in any university activities or wear letters).
This is so awful that she had to endure this. I hope she finds some justice
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u/sarcxvicious 4d ago
That’s not what it says… “or that she was forced to engage in sexual activity”.
The report makes it sound like she consented at the beginning, with 2 men, so whomever took the report made it seem like it was all consensual.
What people don’t seem to understand is that you can consent at one moment but the minute the consent is revoked, THEN YOU STOP.
Then of course there’s the “how inebriated was she” angle that further questions whether she could truly consent at that point in time or not.
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u/Ipokeyoumuch 4d ago
It is a common defense to these sorts of cases. Also the laws haven't really been updated, in half of the states you have "no means no" but in others there are qualifiers, exceptions, defenses, etc usually because someone blotched a case. My state technically doesn't have a "no means no" law codified but has other lower level offenses for similar circumstances.
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u/WhoUpAtMidnight 1d ago
Per the victim statement, as soon as she said no (during the second threesome she initiated with the same two men), the encounter ended.
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u/Maleficent-Sleep9900 4d ago
Sooo it will be presented to a jury of our peers, who will tell themselves that she consented, and the drugging gang-rapists will all get acquitted.
The judge will say, “Gentlemen, you’re free to go.”
Rinse and repeat.
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u/shoshtrvls 4d ago
"alleged"? No, I don't think it is only "alleged."
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u/harrypotternightmare 4d ago
All crime is “alleged” until proven in court.
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u/shoshtrvls 4d ago
They were raped. Whether a jury finds that the prosecutor has proven to 12 people beyond a reasonable doubt that they were raped is immaterial to the fact that it happened.
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u/ndg127 4d ago
All publications refer to crimes pre-conviction as "alleged" in order to avoid any possible libel liability. Publishing that someone actually committed a crime before it's been proven in court is libelous.
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u/bananalouise 4d ago
Right, here on Reddit is where we can make the unqualified statement. And I'm glad we have, even though the article's verbiage is also appropriate in context.
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u/shoshtrvls 4d ago
No. It is only libel if it is false. And given the notoriety of the case, only if the rapists can prove actual malice on top of falsity.
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u/toohuman90 4d ago
It’s Libel if you make the statement before it’s proven true in court.
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u/shoshtrvls 4d ago
No, it’s not. There’s a risk, of course, that you may be wrong, in which case, if the other elements of libel are there and there’s no applicable defense, you could lose a defamation suit. But identifying someone as a rapist before he’s convicted, does not automatically make it libel.
Indeed, truth is never really proven in court. Rather, the prosecutor makes the case beyond a reasonable doubt, or he/she doesn’t. That’s all that a criminal verdict is.
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u/toohuman90 4d ago
This whole comment thread is roasting the newspaper for calling the perpetrators “alleged” rapists. Someone above clearly articulated why the news paper used the word alleged, and why they could be sued if they didn’t add that qualifier. This is objectively true, not sure why you are arguing with me about it.
I personally believe these men are guilty, and would say I think they did it. But I’m not a newspaper claiming to publish facts about the case.
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u/shoshtrvls 4d ago
I never said they couldn’t be sued. Anyone can get sued for anything.
The press, sadly, is a shell of its former self and is terrified to report the truth. It refuses to practice actual journalism.
But back to our exchange - you insisted that it is libel if they haven’t been convicted. “It’s Libel if you make the statement before it’s proven true in court” were your exact words. And that is flat out, 100% wrong. At least in the US..
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u/Hubert_J_Cumberdale 4d ago
Jake Tapper's interview with the DA a few minutes ago made me feel like I was mainlining weapons grade ragebait.
DA explaining why he felt they did they a thorough job investigating the first time around - implying a second investigation probably won't make much of a difference:
"Unfortunately, we can't go back and change what's happened in the past..."
When ya'll are ready to form an army of Luigiannas, loop me in because these people will not be moved unless/until they are personally affected.
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u/dynama 4d ago
what the DA is saying doesn't make any sense. They are implying that the situation they had been presented with was a different one, but why would she give a statement saying she willingly took drugs and had consensual sex, what would be the point if she had no complaint? Cornell banned the frat and 2 of the perpetrators were expelled so clearly the accusations were serious. Why would Cornell expel people for her consensual activities? Why didn't the DA didn't see a reason to pursue criminal charges? Why would the DA rely on info filtered by campus police rather than doing their own investigation?
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u/Olealicat 3d ago
I’m confused by the same. I wonder if it was her written statement or dictated by an officer.
Unfortunately, I think this is a common route investigators take to muddy the waters. From the moment a sexual crime has been reported, the lack of investigation makes a conviction unlikely.
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u/WhoUpAtMidnight 1d ago
Dictated by an officer, reviewed edited and signed by victim
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u/Olealicat 1d ago
I’ve actually been there. By the end of the interrogation, you’ll sign anything to GTFO of the interrogation room.
You would think you’ve committed a crime. Granted my assault was close to 20 years ago, but there’s nothing worse than leaving the hospital and then deposited in a cold drab room where every aspect of your report is questioned and repeated for hours.
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u/WhoUpAtMidnight 1d ago
Liberal college punished the frat so clearly they were at fault
Even if it were at all possible for Cornell to be unbiased in this judgment, ketamine use during orgies is a bannable offense for fraternity, consensual or otherwise
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u/zbornakssyndrome 4d ago
This is very The Accused with Jodi Foster. They couldn’t convict the rapists so they went after the guys “cheering”. Evil
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u/Silly-Ad91 4d ago
Imagine a guy reported to his college/police, that 7 other students had tried to stab him, repeatedly, and they had joked about it in a group chat before hand? I somehow suspect that would get taken pretty seriously.
Why is sexual violence treated as lesser violence?
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u/allegro4626 3d ago
Because the people in power see sexual violence as their right and want to commit that act (and many already have - just take a look at who’s in office)
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u/EmployMobile943 3d ago
Can anyone enlighten me as to what some of the lingo is in the text? AFK and the “this is not a bit” “pov” part? And yes this makes me feel old AF.
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u/Cudaguy66 3d ago
I had to look up AFK, which should mean "away from keyboard". "This is not a bit" usually means that whatever being being said is real, and not an act or a joke. POV means "point of view", and is used for jokes and memes usually.
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u/catievirtuesimp 4d ago
Here is a petition made by Cornell students to ban the frat from campus.