Calls for accountability grow amid a renewed investigation: Catch up on the Cornell alleged gang rape case

Since the former Cornell University student identified as Jane Doe filed a lawsuit last month alleging she had been drugged and gang raped at a fraternity house in 2024, the national storm of attention and media coverage has unveiled previously undisclosed evidence about what she says happened that night and in the following weeks.

The university’s president released a video statement Saturday amid calls for accountability. Doe’s alleged experiences raise “heartbreaking and troubling issues about sexual assault, dehumanization, and aspects of party culture, alcohol, and drug use,” he said, promising further review and answers for the community.

“What we have learned about the handling of this case is horrifying. No young person who comes forward seeking help should ever be ignored or dismissed,” said state Gov. Kathy Hochul in a letter obtained by CNN that was read aloud Sunday at a student-led rally in Ithaca, where Cornell is located. “And no one should be left wondering whether the people entrusted with protecting them will be there when they need them most.”

Demonstrators in Ithaca rally behind Jane Doe

As Cornell comes under fire over its approach to the investigation, the New York Times obtained documents , including records from the university’s formal Title IX investigation, which were corroborated by Doe’s attorney and raise serious questions about the initial criminal investigation in which no charges were brought against the alleged perpetrators.

Records obtained by the Times show the Tompkins County District Attorney’s Office declined to review some of the materials collected by campus police investigators after deciding not to bring charges. CNN has requested a copy of the records.

Details of the process have fueled public outrage, with renewed discussion about sexual assault on college campuses and how educational institutions respond in such cases – as New York’s governor has ordered a new investigation by the state attorney general.

Much of the scrutiny has centered on how Cornell and the Tompkins County DA handled the initial investigation, after Doe went to campus police to report the alleged rape in 2024, weeks after the incident.

At the time, campus police held an hours long interview with Doe, which was “condensed” from an approximately 120-page transcript into a six-page statement, which she signed, according to the Times, citing documents it obtained.

The Tompkins County DA’s Office in November 2024 declined to review any additional evidence beyond the six-page statement signed by Doe, including more interviews gathered by the campus police department, records obtained by the Times show.

Prosecutors did not express interest in the additional evidence because they had decided, based on Doe’s statement, that “Criminal charges would not be pursued in this case,” a Cornell police investigator wrote in a note documenting the call, according to the Times.

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A timeline of the Cornell gang rape allegations

When Doe first went to campus police, authorities wrote she reported “she was recently raped by 8-10 men at the Chi Phi fraternity house,” according to documents reviewed by ABC News. The phrase does not appear in the six-page statement sent to prosecutors.

The statement prosecutors reviewed did not include a separate, extensive transcript of her interview with campus police in which she said, “I can say with 100% confidence I was raped,” according to CNN affiliate WCBS , which obtained the document.

After leaving her own handwritten corrections, Doe signed off on the six-page statement, which was then sent to the DA’s office, according to the Times.

“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 DA’s office wrote in a news release.

Cornell also held its own formal Title IX investigation, which included more than 50 interviews, including with all of the men accused of wrongdoing, except one who declined to be interviewed, according to a heavily redacted 99-page document summarizing the panel’s findings.

CNN has not seen the Title IX filings, which are generally confidential and restricted to the parties involved.

This enormous amount of information was never seen by the DA’s office, it claims. All it received, Tompkins County DA Matthew Van Houten has repeatedly told CNN, was the six-page statement and Snapchat messages exchanged by fraternity members during the alleged assault – but a decision was made not to bring charges .

A Cornell spokesperson told CNN last week it had “shared all investigatory information” with the DA’s office, which matches Cornell’s initial public statement. The school later changed its statement, now saying police investigated the allegations in 2024 and “shared the victim’s sworn statement and the Snapchat screenshot” with the DA’s office.

“I don’t credit much about what D. A. Van Houten did during the course of this investigation,” Doe’s attorney, Thomas P. Giuffra, told CNN Sunday. “I think D. A. Van Houten had an agenda. I think that agenda was to protect Cornell University.”

When reached for comment, Van Houten said, “He is absolutely wrong.”

The district attorney’s investigation has drawn criticism for relying on the report from campus police to determine whether to pursue charges.

“I can’t imagine having an initial interview with a survivor like this without having somebody there with that specialized training who understands how memory works, how somebody processes trauma, how that affects the narrative that they tell. That fact that, at least according to her attorney, that didn’t happen is really appalling,” Berit Berger, a former federal prosecutor, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper last week.

“You have to do a thorough investigation here to see: Did she consent to every act with every individual that’s alleged to have assaulted her?” Berger said. “The fact that they didn’t go through this really comprehensive investigation to figure out, was consent given at each stage is really a tragedy for the survivor.”

Doe went to Cornell Health a few days after the alleged rape to be treated for a urinary tract infection (UTI) and to get tested for sexually transmitted diseases, where she told the healthcare provider she had contracted the UTI in a “traumatic way,” according to her attorney.

In response, Giuffra said, the medical professional advised Doe to “speak with somebody,” failing to offer her a rape kit or physical exam to document her injuries.

“Critically, two days after the assault, a rape kit would likely have revealed DNA which would have been significant information for a criminal investigation,” Giuffra wrote in a statement.

“By the time she went for the rape kit on 11/7 all of the DNA evidence was gone.”

In the roughly three weeks between when the former student was allegedly gang-raped to her describing the night to campus police, Doe appeared to wrestle with shame as her own understanding evolved on whether an assault took place, according to records obtained by the Times and corroborated by Giuffra.

Giuffra also believes his client did not consent to any of the sexual encounters at the center of her allegations and was initially “in denial” about what transpired before starting to feel ashamed and finally realizing she had been raped, he told CNN.

“I felt like bait. I felt like lions around me. It was just a totally debilitating place to be in,” Doe told university investigators months after her alleged assault at the Chi Phi fraternity, according to a Cornell disciplinary hearing panel’s partially redacted decision obtained by CNN.

On the day she returned home, she reportedly told her two roommates she had consumed ketamine and had sex with multiple men but according to one of the roommates, did not yet use the words “rape” or “assault.” She appeared to be in shock and not “really understanding the gravity of what she was saying,” one roommate told investigators.

The next day, Doe also spoke to her sorority big sister – an older member who acts as a mentor – who said Doe had “not yet processed what had happened.”

In the following days, Doe communicated with at least two of the men she later accused of sexual assault, one of whom apologized “for how things went down.” Doe replied to the man reassuringly, the Times reported, saying “non (sic) of the sexual stuff was illegal.”

Attorney: ‘We have some’ of Jane Doe’s recorded calls with men involved in Cornell rape case

Rumors began spreading on campus, leaving her feeling humiliated and fearful. On an online forum, she saw comments about Chi Phi brothers drugging and gang raping a sophomore, which was the “first time I had ever heard the narrative change that I wasn’t a whore and that I was assaulted,” Doe said to investigators, according to documents obtained by the Times.

By November 3, Doe texted one of the men, explicitly saying 90% of what happened was not consensual. Several days later, she went to an emergency room and requested a rape kit, the Times reported, citing the documents. Then, she went to Cornell police.

“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,” Giuffra told CNN Thursday. “Her reactions were a textbook reaction to trauma.”

Trauma impedes the brain’s ability to record events that occur, which can lead to memory gaps, Sandi Johnson, senior legislative policy counsel with anti-sexual assault organization RAINN, told CNN.

While CNN has been unable to view the entire document summarizing the panel’s findings, it describes the heavy presence of ketamine at the fraternity house on the night of the alleged assault, as well as Doe’s reported state of mind at certain points.

In interviews with university investigators, Doe recounted the effects of ketamine as “vague consciousness,” according to the panel’s decision.

“You look like an operating human being … You don’t look dead or asleep necessarily. So, lights are on, but nobody’s home. Your brain is not functioning at its proper level,” she said.

Three weeks after the alleged incident, Doe asked the fraternity member who invited her to the house that night, “Do you remember how any of these guys walked in?” her phone recordings reviewed by ABC News indicate.

Doe started recording her phone calls after the alleged assault so she could have a “reference to the limited information she was receiving,” as she sought to process what happened, Giuffra said.

The fraternity member made no mention of his group chat invitation, ABC News reported, citing the recording, instead explaining to Doe: “The door was just unlocked. … The party was sort of like crowded. … There was nowhere else to go.”

“If I wanted to take this somewhere, what y’all did would be classified as gang rape,” Doe told him, ABC News reported, noting Doe’s recorded phone calls to at least three of the fraternity brothers were later turned over to university investigators.

The Cornell disciplinary panel’s decision reviewed by CNN also cites a recorded phone call Doe had with one of the men named in the lawsuit in early November 2024, where they discussed ketamine and other substances they took as the initial sexual activity began that night in October.

One of the men Doe has accused of sexual assault reportedly sent her this text message: “I just wanted to apologize for how things went down the other night,” according to records obtained by the Times and corroborated by Doe’s attorney. The sender said he and another male allegedly involved felt terrible and too under the influence of drugs and alcohol to “shut it down and kick people out before it got way out of hand.”

The men named in the lawsuit have denied any wrongdoing.

The Times said four of the Chi Phi fraternity members acknowledged having sexual contact with Doe but said their interactions had been consensual. The others said they did not have sexual contact with Doe.

CNN has interviewed one attorney, has a statement from another and ABC News reported on a statement from a third. All have denied the allegations. CNN is working to see if the other four accused have legal representation.

According to the Times, citing the documents, the majority of the men said they did not think the woman appeared intoxicated and all six men interviewed denied wrongdoing. One said he was “a victim of sexual misconduct” because the woman had given him oral sex when he was “too incapacitated” to consent, the Times reported, citing the documents.

The men’s accounts differed, contradicted each other, and were contrary to the statements given by the woman to Cornell police in 2024, according to the documents reviewed by the Times.

The panel decision document obtained by CNN echoes some of the reporting on the men’s accounts, including that at least one said he could not tell the victim was under the influence.

One of the men said he and another went to the room after seeing the “free p*ssy” message sent in a Snapchat group chat titled “Chi Phi Actives,” to see if everything was OK, telling investigators, “I was kind of befuddled” after reading the text, according to the panel’s findings. He said he conversed with Doe and asked one of the men and Doe if they were “all right,” to which both responded affirmatively.

One of the men accused, whose name was redacted, told the panel, “I was sorry that maybe if it wasn’t consensual and she was victimized, I was sorry for not stopping it. And that I’m sorry I couldn’t tell if she was under the influence (…) just sorry that I felt like if something actually bad happened, I didn’t stop it,” according to the decision document.

While the university does not have “all the answers” to questions surrounding the initial investigation, Cornell’s president Michael Kotlikoff – who was the university’s interim president at the time of the incident - said in his statement it is committed to investigating and finding them.

Cornell’s board of trustees will announce an independent review into the handling of the 2024 case by an outside law firm, he said, adding, “we owe it to Jane Doe and to survivors of assault to get this right.”

The criminal investigation has been turned over to the New York Attorney General by the state’s governor, a move Kotlikoff said the university supported. Cornell also previously told CNN it supported the decision.

Kotlikoff also backed legislative efforts to change New York’s sexual assault law, which can make it nearly impossible for survivors to seek justice if they voluntarily consumed alcohol or drugs before an assault.

In Doe’s September civil complaint, she stated prior to arriving at the fraternity house she was “visibly intoxicated, as she had consumed about 10 standard drinks within the past 3 hours.”

While the state criminal investigation and outside review are underway, the university will work to strengthen programs surrounding sexual assault prevention and education, mental health and substance use, Kotlikoff added.

The school’s own survey in 2025 showed 35% of undergraduate female students at Cornell reported experiences of nonconsensual sexual contact since entering the university.

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Mood at Cornell University darkens amid mounting pressure on investigators of alleged sex assault

Cornell students have expressed anger, distrust and disappointment at a perceived lack of transparency from the school following the alleged assault.

Addressing these frustrations, he said, “we will make a greater effort to explain what we can, to provide context about the actions Cornell has taken, and to be more transparent” within the confines of legal and policy limits.

Kotlikoff also signaled support for reviewing the role of Greek organizations in campus life. “We will reengage students, alumni, and other members of our community to examine how we preserve what is valuable about Greek life while strengthening individual accountability, transparency, and a culture in which every member understands their responsibility to protect the safety and well-being of others,” he said.

About one-third of Cornell’s undergraduate student body belongs to one of the more than 50 fraternities and sororities at the school.

CNN’s Chris Boyette, Jason Carroll, Danya Gainor, Taylor Galgano, Lauren Mascarenhas, Hanna Park, Gloria Pazmino, Brittany Shammas, Alex Stambaugh, Linh Tran, Jake Tapper, Avni Trivedi, Cindy Von Quednow, Jeff Winter and Holly Yan contributed to this report.

自上个月一位化名为简·多伊的前康奈尔大学学生提起诉讼，声称她在 2024 年于一所兄弟会会所被下药并遭到轮奸以来，全国范围内的关注和媒体报道掀起了一场风暴，揭露了此前未公开的证据，这些证据与她所说的当晚以及接下来几周发生的事情有关。

在各方呼吁追究责任之际，该大学校长周六发布了一段视频声明。他表示，约翰·多伊的遭遇引发了“令人心碎和不安的性侵犯、非人化以及派对文化、酒精和毒品滥用等问题”，并承诺将对此事进行进一步调查，并向社区作出解释。

“我们从这起案件的处理中了解到的情况令人震惊。任何前来寻求帮助的年轻人都不应该被忽视或轻视，”康涅狄格州州长凯西·霍楚在一封信中写道。这封信于周日在康奈尔大学所在地伊萨卡举行的一场由学生组织的集会上被公开宣读。CNN获得了这封信。“任何人都不应该怀疑，那些受托保护他们的人，在他们最需要的时候是否会在场。”

伊萨卡的示威者集会声援简·多伊

康奈尔大学因其调查方式而受到抨击，《纽约时报》获得了文件，其中包括该大学正式的第九条修正案调查记录，这些文件得到了原告律师的证实，并对最初的刑事调查提出了严重质疑，因为在最初的刑事调查中，没有对涉嫌犯罪者提出任何指控。

《泰晤士报》获得的记录显示，汤普金斯县地方检察官办公室在决定不提起诉讼后，拒绝审查校园警方调查人员收集的部分材料。CNN已要求获取这些记录的副本。

该过程的细节激起了公众的愤怒，再次引发了关于大学校园性侵犯以及教育机构如何应对此类案件的讨论——纽约州州长已下令由州检察长进行新的调查。

审查的焦点主要集中在康奈尔大学和汤普金斯县地方检察官如何处理最初的调查上。2024年，也就是事件发生几周后，Doe向校园警察报告了这起所谓的强奸案。

据《泰晤士报》援引其获得的文件报道，当时校园警察对约翰·多伊进行了长达数小时的讯问，并将约 120 页的笔录“浓缩”成一份 6 页的声明，多伊在声明上签了名。

《泰晤士报》获得的记录显示，2024 年 11 月，汤普金斯县地方检察官办公室拒绝审查除 Doe 签署的六页声明之外的任何其他证据，包括校园警察部门收集的更多采访记录。

据《泰晤士报》报道，康奈尔大学的一名警探在一份记录通话内容的笔记中写道，检察官们对补充证据不感兴趣，因为他们根据多伊的陈述决定“不会在此案中提起刑事诉讼”。

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康奈尔轮奸案指控时间线

据美国广播公司新闻网查阅的文件显示，当简·多伊首次向校园警方报案时，警方记录显示她报告称“她最近在奇菲兄弟会会所遭到8至10名男子的强奸”。但这一表述并未出现在她提交给检察官的六页声明中。

据 CNN 附属电视台 WCBS 报道，检察官审查的声明中没有包含她与校园警察单独进行的详细谈话记录，在谈话记录中她说：“我可以百分之百肯定地说，我被强奸了。” WCBS 获得了这份文件。

据《泰晤士报》报道，Doe 在留下自己亲笔修改后，签署了这份六页的声明，随后该声明被送往地方检察官办公室。

“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，”地方检察官办公室在一份新闻稿中写道。

康奈尔大学也进行了自己的正式第九条调查，其中包括 50 多次访谈，包括对所有被指控有不当行为的男性进行访谈，但有一人拒绝接受访谈。一份经过大量删减的 99 页文件总结了该小组的调查结果。

CNN尚未看到第九条修正案的相关文件，这些文件通常属于机密文件，仅限相关各方查阅。

据称，地方检察官办公室从未见过如此大量的资料。汤普金斯县地方检察官马修·范·豪顿多次告诉CNN，他们收到的只有一份六页的声明以及兄弟会成员在涉嫌袭击事件发生期间互发的Snapchat信息——但最终决定不提起诉讼。

康奈尔大学发言人上周告诉CNN，该校已“将所有调查信息”分享给了地方检察官办公室，这与康奈尔大学最初的公开声明一致。但该校后来更改了声明，称警方在2024年对这些指控展开了调查，并将“受害者的宣誓证词和Snapchat截图”分享给了地方检察官办公室。

“我对地方检察官范·豪顿在这次调查过程中所做的一切并不怎么认可，”原告约翰·多伊的律师托马斯·P·吉弗拉周日告诉CNN。“我认为范·豪顿检察官另有图谋。我认为他的目的是保护康奈尔大学。”

当被问及此事时，范·豪顿表示：“他完全错了。”

地区检察官的调查因依赖校园警察的报告来决定是否提起诉讼而受到批评。

“我无法想象，如果没有受过专门训练、了解记忆运作方式、了解一个人如何处理创伤以及这如何影响他们讲述故事的人在场，该如何对这样的幸存者进行初步面谈。至少根据她的律师所说，这种情况并没有发生，这真的令人震惊，”前联邦检察官贝里特·伯杰上周告诉CNN的安德森·库珀。

“你必须进行彻底调查，看看：她是否同意与每个被指控性侵她的人发生性关系？”伯杰说。“他们没有进行如此全面的调查，弄清楚每个阶段她是否都同意，这对幸存者来说真是一场悲剧。”

据她的律师称，在被指控强奸几天后，Doe前往康奈尔健康中心接受尿路感染（UTI）治疗，并接受性传播疾病检测。在那里，她告诉医护人员，她是以一种“痛苦的方式”感染了尿路感染。

吉弗拉说，对此，这位医务人员建议多伊“找人谈谈”，却没有给她提供强奸取证包或身体检查来记录她的伤情。

“至关重要的是，袭击发生两天后，强奸取证包很可能会发现 DNA，这对刑事调查来说将是重要的信息，”吉弗拉在一份声明中写道。

“等到她11月7日去取强奸取证包的时候，所有的DNA证据都已经消失了。”

据《泰晤士报》获得的记录以及吉弗拉的证实，在据称遭到轮奸的前学生向校园警察描述当晚情况的大约三周时间里，多伊似乎一直在与羞耻感作斗争，因为她自己对是否发生过袭击的理解也在不断变化。

吉弗拉还认为，他的委托人并未同意她指控的核心的任何性行为，并且最初对所发生的事情“否认”，之后才开始感到羞耻，最终意识到自己遭到了强奸。他告诉 CNN。

据 CNN 获得的康奈尔大学纪律听证小组部分删节的决定显示，Doe 在她声称在 Chi Phi 兄弟会遭到袭击几个月后告诉大学调查人员：“我感觉自己像个诱饵。我感觉周围都是狮子。那真是一个令人完全丧失行动能力的地方。”

据报道，她回家当天告诉两位室友，她吸食了氯胺酮并与多名男子发生了性关系，但其中一位室友表示，她当时还没有使用“强奸”或“性侵”这样的字眼。一位室友告诉调查人员，她当时似乎处于震惊状态，并没有“真正意识到自己所说的话的严重性”。

第二天，Doe 还和她的姐妹会大姐姐（一位担任导师的年长成员）谈了谈，大姐姐说 Doe “还没有消化所发生的事情”。

在接下来的几天里，简·多伊至少与两名她后来指控性侵的男子取得了联系，其中一人就“事情的经过”向她道歉。《泰晤士报》报道称，多伊回复该男子时表示安慰，称“所有性行为都不违法”。

律师：“我们掌握了一些”简·多伊与康奈尔强奸案涉案男子的通话录音。

谣言开始在校园里传播，令她感到羞辱和恐惧。在一个网络论坛上，她看到有评论说，Chi Phi兄弟会的成员给一名大二女生下药并轮奸了她。据《泰晤士报》获得的文件显示，Doe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”。

11月3日，简·多伊给其中一名男子发短信，明确表示90%的性行为并非双方自愿。几天后，据《泰晤士报》援引文件报道，她前往急诊室并要求进行性侵取证。之后，她又向康奈尔大学警方报案。

“简·多伊女士的内心挣扎经历了从否认到羞耻，最终接受了自己被她以为是朋友的人强奸的事实，”吉弗拉周四告诉CNN。“她的反应是教科书式的创伤后反应。”

反性侵犯组织 RAINN 的高级立法政策顾问桑迪·约翰逊告诉 CNN，创伤会阻碍大脑记录所发生事件的能力，这会导致记忆空白。

虽然 CNN 无法查看总结小组调查结果的完整文件，但该文件描述了在涉嫌袭击当晚兄弟会宿舍内大量存在氯胺酮的情况，以及据称 Doe 在某些时刻的精神状态。

根据小组的决定，在与大学调查人员的访谈中，Doe 将氯胺酮的效果描述为“意识模糊”。

“你看上去像个正常运转的人……你看起来并不像死了或者睡着了。所以，灯亮着，但你心不在焉。你的大脑运转不正常，”她说。

据美国广播公司新闻网 (ABC News) 审查的 Doe 的手机录音显示，在据称事件发生三周后，Doe 问当晚邀请她去兄弟会会所的那位成员：“你还记得这些人是怎么进来的吗？”

吉弗拉说，在遭到袭击后，多伊开始录制她的电话，以便“参考她所收到的有限信息”，从而理清所发生的事情。

据美国广播公司新闻报道，录音显示，这名兄弟会成员并未提及他收到的群聊邀请，而是向约翰·多伊解释说：“门没锁……派对有点拥挤……没有其他地方可去。”

据美国广播公司新闻报道，Doe 告诉他：“如果我想把这件事闹大，你们的行为就会被定性为轮奸。” 报道还指出，Doe 与至少三名兄弟会成员的通话录音后来被移交给大学调查人员。

CNN 审查的康奈尔大学纪律委员会的决定还引用了 Doe 在 2024 年 11 月初与诉讼中提到的一名男子的录音电话，他们在电话中讨论了氯胺酮和其他物质，当时他们在 10 月份的那个晚上开始了最初的性行为。

据《纽约时报》获得的记录显示，并经Doe的律师证实，其中一名被Doe指控性侵的男子曾给她发过这样一条短信：“我只是想为那天晚上发生的事情道歉。” 发短信的人说，他和另一名据称涉案的男子感到非常懊悔，而且当时他们受毒品和酒精的影响，无法“在事态完全失控之前制止并把人赶出去”。

诉讼中提到的几名男子均否认有任何不当行为。

《泰晤士报》称，四名Chi Phi兄弟会成员承认与Doe发生过性接触，但表示这些行为均属双方自愿。其余成员则表示没有与Doe发生过性接触。

CNN采访了一位律师，并获得了另一位律师的声明，ABC新闻也报道了第三位律师的声明。所有律师都否认了这些指控。CNN正在努力了解其他四名被告是否聘请了律师。

据《泰晤士报》援引文件报道，大多数男性表示他们认为该女子当时并未醉酒，所有六名接受采访的男性都否认自己有任何不当行为。其中一人称自己是“性侵犯的受害者”，因为该女子在他“神志不​​清”无法同意的情况下为他口交。《泰晤士报》援引文件报道称。

据《泰晤士报》查阅的文件显示，这些男子的说法各不相同，互相矛盾，并且与该女子在 2024 年向康奈尔大学警方提供的证词相矛盾。

CNN 获得的这份小组决定文件与一些关于这些男子的陈述的报道相呼应，其中包括至少有一名男子表示他无法判断受害者是否受到药物影响。

其中一名男子称，他和另一名男子在名为“Chi Phi Actives”的Snapchat群聊中看到“免费性服务”的信息后，前往房间查看情况。据调查小组的调查结果显示，该男子告诉调查人员，读完信息后他“有点懵”。他说，他与Doe交谈，并询问其中一名男子和Doe是否“一切安好”，两人都回答“没事”。

其中一名被指控的男子（姓名已被隐去）告诉陪审团：“我很抱歉，如果这不是双方自愿的，她受到了伤害，我很抱歉我没有阻止。我也很抱歉我没能判断她是否受到了药物的影响（……）我只是很抱歉，我觉得如果真的发生了什么不好的事情，我没有阻止它。”以上内容摘自裁决书。

虽然康奈尔大学对于初步调查中出现的问题还没有“所有答案”，但事发时担任该校临时校长的迈克尔·科特利科夫在声明中表示，学校致力于调查并找到答案。

他说，康奈尔大学的董事会将宣布委托一家外部律师事务所对 2024 年的案件处理情况进行独立审查，并补充说，“我们有责任对简·多伊和性侵幸存者负责，把这件事处理好。”

纽约州州长已将此刑事调查移交给纽约州总检察长，科特利科夫表示康奈尔大学对此举表示支持。康奈尔大学此前也曾向CNN表示支持这一决定。

科特利科夫还支持修改纽约州性侵犯法的立法努力，该法律使得在遭受性侵犯之前自愿饮酒或吸毒的幸存者几乎不可能寻求正义。

在 Doe 于 9 月份提交的民事诉讼中，她表示在到达兄弟会会所之前，她“明显处于醉酒状态，因为在过去的 3 小时内她喝了大约 10 杯标准饮料”。

科特利科夫补充说，在州刑事调查和外部审查进行期间，该大学将努力加强有关性侵犯预防和教育、心理健康和药物滥用的项目。

康奈尔大学在 2025 年进行的一项调查显示，35% 的康奈尔大学本科女生报告称，自入学以来曾经历过非自愿性接触。

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随着对涉嫌性侵案调查人员的压力越来越大，康奈尔大学的气氛变得阴沉起来。

康奈尔大学的学生们对学校在涉嫌袭击事件发生后缺乏透明度表示愤怒、不信任和失望。

针对这些不满，他表示，“我们将在法律和政策限制的范围内，更加努力地解释我们所能解释的内容，提供康奈尔大学所采取行动的背景信息，并提高透明度”。

科特利科夫也表示支持重新审视兄弟会和姐妹会在校园生活中的角色。他说：“我们将重新与学生、校友和其他社区成员合作，探讨如何在保留兄弟会和姐妹会生活中宝贵价值的同时，加强个人责任、提高透明度，并营造一种让每位成员都明白自己有责任保护他人安全和福祉的文化氛围。”

康奈尔大学约有三分之一的本科生是该校 50 多个兄弟会和姐妹会的成员。

CNN 的 Chris Boyette、Jason Carroll、Danya Gainor、Taylor Galgano、Lauren Mascarenhas、Hanna Park、Gloria Pazmino、Brittany Shammas、Alex Stambaugh、Linh Tran、Jake Tapper、Avni Trivedi、Cindy Von Quednow、Jeff Winter 和 Holly Yan 对本报道做出了贡献。