Why has a Cornell rape investigation been reopened?

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De acordo com documentos judiciais apresentados na ação em 16 de setembro, que incluem capturas de tela de um chat em grupo supostamente entre membros da fraternidade universitária no centro das alegações, a mulher, referida como Jane Doe, alegou que foi drogada e violada na casa da fraternidade em 2024.

The case has sparked anger on social media directed at Cornell and the District Attorney’s Office in Tompkins County, New York, over their handling of the allegations.

On Monday, District Attorney Matthew Van Houten said in a statement that while at the time of the assault his office had found that evidence from the complainant’s initial statement did not meet the legal threshold to bring charges, he would now let a grand jury decide.

According to the 101-page lawsuit, the complainant visited a friend at the Chi Phi fraternity house at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, on October 19, 2024, while she was already intoxicated after drinking at a local, off-campus bar.

Ela afirmou que dois membros da casa a propuseram para dormir com ambos e depois a pressionaram a tomar cetamina e fumar maconha.

Doe, 20 at the time, alleged she was then raped by seven men at the Chi Phi fraternity house over the course of seven hours before blacking out about 5:45am.

She said in the lawsuit that because she was under the influence, there was no way she was able to provide consent.

Doe acrescentou que, embora tenha denunciado o incidente ao departamento de polícia da universidade em 8 de novembro de 2024, os promotores não apresentaram acusações criminais.

In a statement to US broadcaster CBS News on Monday, Doe’s lawyer, Thomas Giuffra, said she went to the police because she believed she was the “victim of a crime”.

He added that Cornell expelled two fraternity members after an internal review of the allegations, but five others received lesser repercussions, including suspensions, workshops and essay assignments.

A ação judicial nomeia Matthew Ingalls, Johnathan Newell, Winston Lee, Gillio Lopes, Diego Sarabia, Scott Norris e Scott Kretzschmar como os homens em questão.

Doe is seeking monetary damages, including compensatory and punitive damages. The lawsuit did not specify how much Doe was asking for.

The lawsuit includes images of a group chat on Snapchat among members of the fraternity in which one person alerted others crudely that they could sleep with the victim for “free”.

Uma imagem do chat em grupo mostra uma mensagem de uma pessoa que escreveu: “Eu f****** amo Chi Phi.”.

Kretzschmar, então membro da fraternidade, supostamente enviou duas respostas no grupo do Snapchat, mas negou envolvimento.

Have any of the defendants responded.

Yes. Kretzschmar’s attorney, Jeremy Saland, told CBS News that the messages were inappropriate but were not evidence of sexual assault.

He added that his client had briefly entered the room where Doe was but did not touch her “in any way, shape or form” and left quickly afterwards.

Em relação à acusação de uso de cetamina, Saland disse que Kretzschmar fez um teste de folículo capilar que mostrou que ele não tinha a droga em seu organismo, acrescentando que ninguém entrou em contato com ele sobre uma nova investigação.

Meanwhile, Andrew Miltenberg, an attorney representing Lopes, also told CBS New York that his client “unequivocally denies the allegations against him”.

In a statement published on Monday, Cornell said it supports the district attorney’s decision to have Doe’s story heard by a grand jury.

It explained that the university initially conducted its own investigation into the allegations over several months and sent the matter to a hearing in which a panel of trained faculty and staff heard evidence from Doe and the defendants.

What has the district attorney said.

According to Van Houten’s statement on Monday, in Doe’s initial statement in November 2024, she did not allege that she was drugged against her will or gang-raped.

Van Houten said a female senior prosecutor from his office who has significant experience in prosecuting sex crimes and has been involved in conducting jury trials in college sexual assault cases will prepare the case for the grand jury.

Quão comum é o assédio sexual em campi universitários nos EUA.

According to the Association of American Universities Campus Climate Survey in 2019, the overall rate of nonconsensual sexual contact by physical force or an inability to consent among women attending universities in the United States was 13 percent.

Entre as mulheres de graduação, a taxa era de 26,4%, ou cerca de uma em cada quatro estudantes. Para os homens de graduação, era de 6,9%.

Among postgraduate female students, 10. 8 percent reported sexual contact by physical force or an inability to consent.

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