A timeline of the Cornell gang rape allegations

A lawsuit filed last month by a former Cornell University student alleging a gang rape at a fraternity house in 2024 has prompted the reopening of an investigation and reignited a firestorm around the scourge of sexual assaults at universities in the US and how schools, police and prosecutors respond.

In the weeks since the 101-page complaint was filed by a woman identified only as Jane Doe, Cornell University, its police department and the county district attorney have come under intense scrutiny that has cracked the tranquil façade of the Ivy League institution and the small upstate New York community that surrounds the campus.

The emergence of new evidence has raised questions about how the initial investigation was handled and what evidence was shared with Cornell police and the county district attorney – who says he only received Snapchat messages from that night and a six-page investigative report before deciding not to bring charges in the case.

New York Attorney General Letitia James has taken over the investigation as a special prosecutor. She was appointed after Gov. Kathy Hochul said she “lost faith” in the district attorney’s ability to oversee the inquiry.

Here’s a timeline of key events described in the lawsuit and investigation:

Doe arrived at Cornell – more than 1,000 miles from her home – as an 18-year-old freshman with the “similar hopes, expectations and trepidations of other high school graduates embarking on something so seemingly monumental,” says the civil complaint filed by Doe on September 16.

That fall, she pledged the Alpha Beta chapter of Delta Delta Delta, drawn, the suit says, to its “promises of sisterhood and lifelong friendships,” and the ready-made community it offered a student far from home. She would live in the sorority house on campus where, the complaint notes, the university billed Greek membership as a “vital” part of student life.

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Before 8:30 p.m.: Before heading to a Tri-Delta event at a bar in Ithaca, a now 20-year-old Doe drank vodka at her sorority house “until she was intoxicated,” the complaint said.

Around 8:30 p.m.: She took an Uber to the bar, accompanied by the sorority’s house mother.

Around 9 p.m.: The bar’s bouncer marked an “X” on each of her hands to signify she was under 21 but she was still served at least one drink inside, the suit says.

Around 10 p.m.: Doe and other sorority members walked to a nearby bar, where she was given an “under 21” wristband.

Around 11 p.m.: Doe left the second bar alone and walked to the Chi Phi fraternity house to see a friend, one of the men later named as a defendant in the lawsuit.

“When Plaintiff arrived at XI CHAPTER’s fraternity house, Plaintiff was visibly intoxicated as she had consumed about 10 standard drinks within the past 3 hours,” the complaint says.

Inside, the suit alleges, the friend gave Doe a beer and the two danced before he proposed a threesome and took her to another room in the house. There, the friend and another fraternity member allegedly pressured Doe into snorting a substance they described as ketamine and gave her more alcohol, the lawsuit says. Both fraternity members then sexually assaulted Doe while she says she was “incapable of consent,” according to the complaint, which noted one of the men slapped Doe on the buttocks, resulting in bruising.

In a six-page statement signed by Doe to Cornell police, Doe said she was “pretty ok” with aspects of the initial encounter that night, but she did not consent to other sexual activities later at the fraternity house.

“I felt like I was unable to make any decisions because of how intoxicated I was,” she said in the statement. Doe said she felt like her overall intoxication level at one point was about an “8 out of 10” — which she said was the most intoxicated she had been in her life.

Sometime after the initial encounter, a third fraternity member entered the room and began to sexually assault Doe, the complaint says, without her consent.

Around 1:42 a.m.: One of the men allegedly posted in the fraternity’s “Chi Phi Actives” Snapchat group there was “free p*ssy” upstairs – a message the suit says was meant to encourage other members to join in. A photo of a portion of the chat is included in the filing.

In additional Snapchat messages obtained by CNN, Doe is shown in an image in a room at the fraternity house.

Multiple additional fraternity members then entered the room, where the complaint alleges they pressured Doe into taking more ketamine and subjected her to an hours-long assault.

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“While Plaintiff was lying on her back on the bed, Defendants … then began pouring lines of Ketamine all over her body and snorting them,” alleges Doe in the complaint.

Soon after, the complaint says two of the alleged perpetrators moved Doe to another room where they instructed Doe to snort more Ketamine and ‘initiated another assault.”

Roughly 5:45 a.m.: The assault ended and Doe “lost consciousness,” the lawsuit says.

Later that morning: Doe awoke at the fraternity house and returned to her sorority house, the lawsuit says. Once home, she noticed bruising and took preemptive medication for a urinary tract infection, it says.

Doe’s roommates later told the university’s Title IX investigators that when she arrived home, Doe told them she had consumed ketamine and had sex with multiple men, according to files obtained by The New York Times .

One roommate told investigators Jane Doe did not use the word “rape” or “assault” yet, the Times reported.

One roommate said it appeared Doe was “in shock” and was “not really understanding the gravity of what she was saying,” the Times reported.

As the day went on, Doe became aware the alleged assault “was becoming public knowledge” on campus, the lawsuit says.

“It was clear to me by several friends that the members of Chi Phi were bragging about having an ‘eightsome’ with me,” she told university police in her statement to them.

“It was now obvious that everyone knew it was me that this had happened to.”

Over the ensuing weeks, Doe, her roommates and her sorority big sister describe her realizing the severity of the night’s events and coming to understand them as an alleged assault, according to the Times report, citing the Title IX documents.

CNN has not seen the Title IX filings, which are generally confidential and restricted to the parties involved; however, it has obtained a heavily redacted, 99-page summary detailing key findings from the university panel’s disciplinary case against one of the men.

After the alleged rape, Doe saw comments on an online forum about Chi Phi brothers drugging and gang raping a sophomore, of which she later told investigators, “That’s the first time I had ever heard the narrative change that I wasn’t a whore and that I was assaulted,” the Times reported.

Once she came to terms with what happened, she went to a health professional a few days after the incident, Doe’s attorney told CNN.

“Ms. Doe’s internal processing went from denial to shame and ultimately acceptance that she had been raped by people that she thought were her friends,” her attorney, Thomas P. Giuffra, told CNN.

“Her reactions were a textbook reaction to trauma,” he said.

October 22: A few days after the incident, Doe went to Cornell Health to get treated for a urinary tract infection and to get tested for sexually transmitted diseases, her attorney said.

“Ms. Doe disclosed to the treating health care professional that she contracted the UTI in a ‘traumatic way,’” Giuffra said about the visit.

“Ms. Doe’s disclosure warranted further inquiry, including a rape kit, consultation of medical professionals trained to deal with rape cases and a physical exam to document her injuries,” her attorney said. “Inexplicably, all the medical professional did was to advise Ms. Doe to ‘speak with somebody.’”

Before going to campus police, Doe reportedly collected evidence, including photos of the bruises on her body allegedly caused by one of the men hitting her. She also had not washed the dress to save as potential evidence, the Times also reported.

Doe also went to an emergency room in Ithaca, where Cornell is located, and requested a rape kit on November 7, the Times reported, citing the documents.

November 8, 2024: Doe reported the incident to Cornell University police. The same day, Chi Phi’s Xi chapter was placed on temporary suspension for alleged violations of the student code of conduct, the lawsuit says.

According to CNN affiliate WCBS and the Times, which obtained the transcript as part of the Title IX filings, Doe explicitly told police she was assaulted and described emotional pressure to participate and said she was physically hit.

“I can say with 100% confidence I was raped,” Doe said in the transcript of her interview with Cornell police obtained by WCBS.

CNN has not seen the transcript and has asked Cornell for a copy but has not heard back.

Doe also told police she “had become extremely uncomfortable with how this night was turning out” and thought, “if I passed out and the men had sex with me, then they could be charged with Rape,” the transcript reads.

Doe said she remembered consuming a “heavy amount” of ketamine, smoking marijuana and having “various things” poured on her body. She said she initially agreed to having drugs consumed off her body while feeling “extremely tired” but “couldn’t tell what they were pouring on me,” WCBS reports, citing the transcript.

November 15, 2024: Doe signs a six-page voluntary statement compiled by the Cornell University Police Department based on her interview.

It does not include Doe’s direct accusation of rape that appears in the transcript of the interview, but does include her saying she was “pretty incapacitated,” and “horrified” as more men entered the room. She also described being physically hit.

“I felt like due to my intoxication, they should have known how intoxicated I was based on how I was slurring my words,” the statement reads.

The statement was the only document initially provided to District Attorney Van Houten by the police department, he said after the lawsuit was filed. He made the decision to not file any charges based on the statement, he said in a news release last month, because it “did not allege that she was drugged against her will or gang raped.”

“Multiple prosecutors and criminal investigators reviewed Jane Doe’s statement and correctly determined the alleged facts as set forth in the statement do not constitute a crime,” the news release said.

Cornell had previously said it had turned over all investigative information to the district attorney but later amended its public release of information to say it shared the victim’s sworn statement and the Snapchat screenshot with the district attorney.

It has not responded to CNN’s questions about why the full transcript of Jane Doe’s police interview, which included Doe’s explicit rape accusation, was not included in the statement prepared by police for the DA.

November 26, 2024: More than a month after the alleged assault, Cornell released a statement acknowledging “serious and deeply disturbing allegations of drug abuse and sexual violence at the Chi Phi fraternity house.”

The school said it was “reviewing all reported information” and the week prior had given temporary suspensions to a number of students.

January 14, 2025: The university opened its formal investigation under Title IX – the federal law requiring schools to respond to reports of sexual assault – in response to Doe’s report.

May 2–29, 2025: The Title IX office held numerous hearings – at least a dozen. It conducted more than 50 interviews, including with six of the seven men, according to the document obtained by CNN on the panel’s findings. Cornell has said the process led to a range of sanctions, including suspensions and expulsions, and the Chi Phi chapter was closed and remains barred from campus.

During that investigation, four of the fraternity members acknowledged having sexual contact with Doe, but said the interactions were consensual, according to the transcripts of confidential investigative files obtained by The New York Times .

The others denied participating in sexual encounters, the Times said. They all denied wrongdoing and the majority said Doe did not seem intoxicated.

The men’s accounts differed, contradicted each other, and were contrary to what Doe told police, the Times report said.

One said he was “a victim of sexual misconduct” because Doe had given him oral sex when he was “too incapacitated” to consent, the Times reported.

The lawyers for three of the men named in Doe’s lawsuit have since issued statements denying wrongdoing.

CNN has been unable to reach the other four men named in the lawsuit for comment. It’s unclear if they have representation.

November 4, 2025: More than a year after the alleged assault, Cornell released the results of its 2025 campus sexual-assault survey, citing an increased prevalence of sexual misconduct on campus.

September 16: Doe filed her complaint in New York County.

September 18: The Cornell Daily Sun broke the news , and the case quickly drew national attention.

Doe’s attorney said only two of the men named in the lawsuit were expelled, with the others receiving lesser punishment, including suspensions, workshops or written assignments.

September 21: Cornell issued its first statement responding to the lawsuit, saying it couldn’t comment on disciplinary actions due to privacy laws.

September 28: District Attorney Van Houten announces his office is reopening the case and will seek a grand jury review to determine if criminal charges are warranted.

“The decision made in November of 2024 that the evidence did not support the filing of criminal charges was legally correct,” Van Houten said in a statement provided to CNN. “At the same time, I recognize the reality that it can take years of therapy and healing for victims of sexual assaults to fully process and understand what happened to them.”

The same day, Cornell issued a second statement , welcoming the prosecutor’s announcement and pushing back on claims of lenient discipline. Its Title IX panel “issued a range of sanctions, which included expulsions and suspensions,” the statement said, and “none of the individuals charged were offered the opportunity to write essays as a sole consequence.” Any suggestion that the university “did not impose consequential punishments,” it added, “is false.”

September 29: The office of New York Attorney General Letitia James says it will review Cornell’s response to the allegations. Gov. Kathy Hochul called the allegations “horrifying” and urged an independent outside review.

October 1: Hochul announces she is appointing James as a special prosecutor because she’s “lost faith” in Van Houten’s ability to conduct the investigation.

James will have the power to investigate the incident and, if warranted, prosecute any offenses and present evidence to a grand jury.

“The young woman at the center of this case deserves to know that every fact will be examined and justice pursued.”

Cornell told CNN it supports the governor’s decision.

October 2: During a news conference, Hochul said, “I want the truth. I think every parent in this state, every New Yorker, wants the truth in this case.” The governor added she has “every confidence” in James “to get it right.”

CNN’s Jason Carroll, Linh Tran and Chris Boyette contributed to this report.

上个月，一名康奈尔大学前学生提起诉讼，声称 2024 年在兄弟会宿舍遭到轮奸，这促使当局重新启动调查，并再次引发了关于美国大学性侵犯祸患以及学校、警察和检察官如何应对的激烈讨论。

自从一名化名简·多伊的女子提交了一份长达 101 页的投诉书以来，康奈尔大学、其警察局和县地方检察官都受到了密切关注，这打破了这所常春藤盟校及其周边纽约州北部小社区的平静表象。

新证据的出现引发了人们对最初调查的处理方式以及与康奈尔大学警方和县地方检察官分享了哪些证据的质疑——地方检察官表示，在决定不对此案提起诉讼之前，他只收到了当晚的 Snapchat 消息和一份六页的调查报告。

纽约州总检察长莱蒂西亚·詹姆斯已接手此案调查，担任特别检察官。此前，州长凯西·霍楚表示她对地方检察官监督调查的能力“失去了信心”，因此任命了詹姆斯。

以下是诉讼和调查中描述的关键事件时间线：

9 月 16 日，Doe 提交了一份民事诉状，其中写道，18 岁的她作为一名新生来到康奈尔大学——距离她的家乡超过 1000 英里——怀着“与其他高中毕业生一样的希望、期望和忐忑不安的心情，即将开始一项看似意义重大的事情”。

那年秋天，她加入了德尔塔德尔塔德尔塔姐妹会的阿尔法贝塔分会。诉讼称，吸引她的是该姐妹会“对姐妹情谊和终身友谊的承诺”，以及它为远离家乡的学生提供的现成社群。她将住在校园内的姐妹会宿舍里。诉状指出，学校将加入兄弟会/姐妹会宣传为学生生活中“至关重要”的一部分。

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晚上 8:30 之前：在前往伊萨卡一家酒吧参加 Tri-Delta 活动之前，现年 20 岁的 Doe 在她所在的姐妹会宿舍喝伏特加，“直到她喝醉了”，投诉书称。

晚上 8:30 左右：她乘坐 Uber 前往酒吧，由姐妹会的宿舍管理员陪同。

诉讼称，晚上 9 点左右，酒吧的保安在她两只手上各画了一个“X”，表示她未满 21 岁，但酒吧仍然至少给她提供了一杯酒。

晚上 10 点左右：Doe 和其他姐妹会成员走到附近的一家酒吧，在那里她被授予了一个“21 岁以下”的手环。

晚上 11 点左右：Doe 独自离开第二家酒吧，步行前往 Chi Phi 兄弟会会所去看望一位朋友，这位朋友后来被列为诉讼中的被告之一。

起诉书称：“原告到达 XI CHAPTER 兄弟会会所时，明显处于醉酒状态，因为她在过去 3 小时内喝了大约 10 杯标准饮品。”

诉讼称，在屋内，这位朋友给了Doe一瓶啤酒，两人跳舞后，他提议三人行，并将她带到屋内的另一个房间。诉讼称，在那里，这位朋友和另一名兄弟会成员强迫Doe吸食了一种他们称之为氯胺酮的物质，并给她喝了更多酒。诉讼还称，这两名兄弟会成员随后对Doe进行了性侵犯，而Doe表示自己当时“无法同意”。诉讼指出，其中一名男子拍打了Doe的臀部，导致其臀部淤青。

在 Doe 向康奈尔警方签署的一份六页声明中，Doe 表示，她对当晚的初次相遇的某些方面“还算可以”，但她没有同意后来在兄弟会会所发生的其他性行为。

“我当时醉得很厉害，感觉自己完全无法做任何决定，”她在声明中说道。简·多伊表示，她感觉自己一度醉得“十分之八”，她说这是她一生中最醉的一次。

起诉书称，在初次接触后不久，第三名兄弟会成员进入房间，未经Doe同意便开始对她进行性侵犯。

凌晨1点42分左右：据称，其中一名男子在兄弟会的Snapchat群组“Chi Phi Actives”中发帖称楼上有“免费性服务”——诉讼称，此举意在鼓励其他成员参与。诉讼文件中附有部分聊天记录的截图。

CNN 获得的更多 Snapchat 消息显示，Doe 的照片出现在兄弟会宿舍的一个房间里。

随后，多名兄弟会成员进入房间，起诉书称，他们强迫 Doe 服用更多氯胺酮，并对她进行了长达数小时的性侵犯。

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“原告仰面躺在床上时，被告……开始将氯胺酮泼洒在她身上并吸食，”原告在诉状中称。

起诉书称，不久之后，两名涉嫌施暴者将 Doe 转移到另一个房间，在那里他们指示 Doe 吸食更多的氯胺酮，并“再次对她实施了袭击”。

诉讼称，大约凌晨 5 点 45 分：袭击结束，Doe “失去了意识”。

当天上午晚些时候，诉讼书称，原告Doe在兄弟会宿舍醒来后返回了她的姐妹会宿舍。回家后，她发现身上有瘀伤，于是服用了预防尿路感染的药物。

据《纽约时报》获得的文件显示，Doe 的室友后来告诉大学的第九条修正案调查人员，当 Doe 回到家时，她告诉她们自己服用了氯胺酮并与多名男子发生了性关系。

据《泰晤士报》报道，一位室友告诉调查人员，简·多伊当时还没有使用“强奸”或“袭击”这样的词语。

据《泰晤士报》报道，一位室友说，Doe 当时似乎“受到了惊吓”，并且“并没有真正理解她所说的话的严重性”。

诉讼称，随着时间的推移，Doe 意识到这起所谓的袭击事件“正在校园内逐渐公开”。

“我的几个朋友都告诉我，Chi Phi 的成员们吹嘘他们和我一起玩过‘八人行’，”她在向大学警方提交的声明中说道。

“现在大家都知道这件事发生在我身上了。”

据《泰晤士报》报道，根据第九条修正案文件，在接下来的几周里，Doe、她的室友和她的姐妹会大姐姐描述了她逐渐意识到当晚事件的严重性，并开始理解这是一起所谓的性侵犯。

CNN 尚未看到《教育法修正案第九条》的相关文件，这些文件通常是保密的，仅限于相关各方；但是，CNN 获得了一份经过大量删减的 99 页摘要，详细介绍了大学委员会对其中一名男子的纪律处分案件的主要调查结果。

据《泰晤士报》报道，在被指控强奸后，Doe 在一个在线论坛上看到了关于 Chi Phi 兄弟会成员给一名大二女生下药并轮奸的评论。她后来告诉调查人员：“这是我第一次听到这样的说法：我不是妓女，而是遭到了性侵犯。”

据 CNN 报道，Doe 的律师表示，在她接受了所发生的事情之后，几天后她就去看了一位医疗专业人士。

“Doe女士的内心挣扎经历了从否认到羞愧，最终接受了自己被她认为是朋友的人强奸的事实，”她的律师Thomas P. Giuffra告诉CNN。

他说：“她的反应是教科书式的创伤反应。”

10 月 22 日：据其律师称，事件发生几天后，Doe 前往康奈尔健康中心接受尿路感染治疗，并接受性传播疾病检测。

Giuffra 在谈到这次就诊时说：“Doe 女士向治疗她的医护人员透露，她患上尿路感染的方式是‘创伤性的’。”

“根据简·多伊女士的陈述，有必要进行进一步调查，包括进行性侵取证、咨询受过处理强奸案件培训的医疗专业人员以及进行体检以记录她的伤情，”她的律师说。“令人费解的是，所有医疗专业人员所做的只是建议简·多伊女士‘找人谈谈’。”

据报道，在前往校园警局之前，简·多伊收集了一些证据，包括她身上据称被其中一名男子殴打造成的瘀伤照片。据《泰晤士报》报道，她也没有清洗那件裙子，以便将其作为潜在的证据保存下来。

据《泰晤士报》援引文件报道，11月7日，Doe还前往康奈尔大学所在的伊萨卡市的一家急诊室，要求进行强奸取证。

2024年11月8日：原告Doe向康奈尔大学警方报案。诉讼称，同日，Chi Phi兄弟会的Xi分会因涉嫌违反学生行为准则而被暂时停权。

据 CNN 附属电视台 WCBS 和《泰晤士报》报道，该报在根据第九条修正案提交的文件中获得了一份笔录，其中 Doe 明确告诉警方她遭到了袭击，并描述了她被迫参与的情感压力，还说她遭到了身体殴打。

“我可以百分之百肯定地说，我被强奸了，”Doe 在 WCBS 获得的康奈尔警方对她的采访记录中说道。

CNN尚未看到该文字记录，并已向康奈尔大学索取副本，但尚未收到回复。

据笔录显示，Doe还告诉警方，她“对当晚的情况感到非常不舒服”，并心想“如果我昏过去，那些男人和我发生了性关系，那么他们可能会被指控强奸”。

据WCBS报道，根据笔录，Doe称她记得自己服用了“大量”氯胺酮，吸食了大麻，并且有人往她身上泼了“各种各样的东西”。她说，起初她同意在感到“极度疲惫”的情况下让别人在她身上吸毒，但“根本不知道他们往我身上泼的是什么”。

2024 年 11 月 15 日：Doe 签署了一份由康奈尔大学警察局根据对她的采访编写的六页自愿声明。

这段文字并未包含简·多伊在访谈记录中直接指控强奸的内容，但包含了她表示自己当时“几乎丧失行动能力”，并且随着更多男子进入房间而感到“恐惧”的内容。她还描述了自己遭到殴打的情况。

声明中写道：“我觉得由于我醉酒了，他们应该能从我说话含糊不清的情况看出我醉了多少。”

范·豪顿检察官在诉讼提起后表示，警方最初向他提供的唯一文件就是这份声明。他在上个月的新闻稿中说，他决定不根据这份声明提起任何指控，因为声明“没有指控她被强迫下药或遭到轮奸”。

新闻稿称：“多名检察官和刑事调查人员审查了简·多伊的陈述，并正确认定陈述中所述的所谓事实不构成犯罪。”

康奈尔大学此前曾表示已将所有调查信息移交给地方检察官，但后来修改了其公开信息，称已将受害者的宣誓证词和 Snapchat 截图分享给了地方检察官。

对于 CNN 提出的“为什么简·多伊接受警方讯问的完整笔录（其中包括多伊明确的强奸指控）没有包含在警方为地方检察官准备的声明中”这一问题，警方尚未作出回应。

2024 年 11 月 26 日：在涉嫌袭击事件发生一个多月后，康奈尔大学发表声明，承认“Chi Phi 兄弟会宿舍存在严重且令人深感不安的吸毒和性暴力指控”。

学校表示正在“审查所有已报告的信息”，并且在前一周已对一些学生进行了暂时停学处分。

2025 年 1 月 14 日：该大学根据《教育法修正案第九条》（一项要求学校对性侵犯报告作出回应的联邦法律）对 Doe 的报告展开了正式调查。

2025年5月2日至29日：第九条办公室举行了多次听证会——至少十几次。根据CNN获得的调查小组调查结果文件，该办公室进行了50多次面谈，其中包括对七名涉事男子中的六名的面谈。康奈尔大学表示，这一程序导致了一系列制裁，包括停学和开除，Chi Phi兄弟会分会已被关闭，并且至今仍被禁止进入校园。

据《纽约时报》获得的机密调查文件的笔录显示，在那次调查期间，四名兄弟会成员承认与 Doe 发生过性接触，但表示这些互动是双方自愿的。

《泰晤士报》称，其他人都否认参与性行为。他们都否认自己有任何不当行为，而且大多数人表示，简·多伊当时看起来并没有醉酒。

《泰晤士报》报道称，这两名男子的说法各不相同，互相矛盾，而且与约翰·多伊告诉警方的说法相悖。

据《泰晤士报》报道，其中一人称自己是“性行为不端的受害者”，因为当Doe在他“无力”同意的情况下给他进行了口交。

Doe诉讼案中提到的三名男子的律师随后发表声明，否认有任何不当行为。

CNN目前无法联系到诉讼中提到的其他四名男子置评。尚不清楚他们是否已聘请律师。

2025 年 11 月 4 日：在涉嫌性侵事件发生一年多后，康奈尔大学公布了 2025 年校园性侵犯调查结果，指出校园性行为不端的发生率有所上升。

9月16日：原告Doe在纽约县提起诉讼。

9 月 18 日：《康奈尔每日太阳报》报道了这一消息，该案件迅速引起了全国的关注。

Doe 的律师表示，诉讼中提到的男子中只有两人被开除，其他人受到的处罚较轻，包括停学、参加研讨会或提交书面作业。

9 月 21 日：康奈尔大学就此诉讼发表了第一份声明，称由于隐私法，无法对纪律处分发表评论。

9 月 28 日：地方检察官范豪顿宣布，他的办公室将重新调查此案，并寻求大陪审团审查，以确定是否应提出刑事指控。

范·豪顿在提供给CNN的一份声明中表示：“2024年11月做出的关于证据不足以提起刑事诉讼的决定在法律上是正确的。与此同时，我也意识到，性侵受害者可能需要数年的治疗和疗愈才能完全理解和接受发生在自己身上的事情。”

同一天，康奈尔大学发表了第二份声明，对检察官的声明表示欢迎，并驳斥了有关校方处分过轻的说法。声明称，其第九条修正案委员会“做出了一系列处罚决定，包括开除和停学”，并且“没有让任何被指控的学生仅仅因为受到处罚就获得撰写论文的机会”。声明还补充说，任何关于该大学“没有实施实质性惩罚”的说法“都是错误的”。

9月29日：纽约州总检察长莱蒂西亚·詹姆斯办公室表示，将审查康奈尔大学对这些指控的回应。州长凯西·霍楚尔称这些指控“令人震惊”，并敦促进行独立的外部审查。

10 月 1 日：霍楚宣布任命詹姆斯为特别检察官，因为她对范豪顿进行调查的能力“失去了信心”。

詹姆斯将有权调查这起事件，并在必要时对任何违法行为提起诉讼，并将证据提交给大陪审团。

“这起案件中的年轻女子理应知道，每一个事实都会被调查，正义终将得到伸张。”

康奈尔大学告诉 CNN，他们支持州长的决定。

10月2日：在新闻发布会上，霍楚尔表示：“我想要真相。我认为本州的每一位家长，每一位纽约人，都想知道这起案件的真相。”州长还补充说，她“完全相信”詹姆斯“能够把事情处理好”。

CNN的Jason Carroll、Linh Tran和Chris Boyette对本报道亦有贡献。