Allegations that a Cornell University student was gang raped by a group of men at a fraternity house in 2024 have led to widespread, online speculation about what school officials, police and prosecutors did and didn’t do, as well as biting criticism that no criminal charges were brought. The woman brought the allegations back into
A woman who says she was gang-raped at a Cornell University fraternity told the school’s investigators last year that she “felt like bait” as the attackers were “like lions around me,” according to records from the school’s disciplinary investigation. The documents, reviewed Friday by The Associated Press, include excerpts of interviews Cornell’s investigators did with
In an interview with CBS, the BBC’s US partner, Giuffra argued that his client, aged 20 at the time, was unable to provide consent because she was intoxicated when she arrived at the fraternity house. Giuffra said she had been pressured into taking the drug ketamine before she was allegedly raped. His comments came as
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has said the woman at the centre of the Cornell University rape case was “failed” at “every turn”. The woman, known as Jane Doe in legal documents, alleges she was drugged and raped by several men at a fraternity house in 2024. The case was investigated at the time but
The upcoming “Justice for Survivors” protest, planned at the university for 5 October, is being advertised in flyers all over campus. It calls on Cornell to take action against alleged rape culture. Student organisers are calling for Cornell to expel and revoke the degrees of the alleged perpetrators of the rape, rewrite policies around sexual
One of India’s largest private universities has suspended classes after an unverified allegation that a female student was raped on campus set off protests that descended into violence. Police say they have registered a case and are trying to verify whether last week’s alleged rape at Lovely Professional University (LPU) did happen. The university has
