Cornell 7: Jane Doe’s Initial Police Report Released, Everything She Told Police About That Night

very quickly this is dubbed the cornell seven case online by social media netizens there's a lot of points of pain that netizens were outraged by when jane doe's lawsuit goes live the allegation that this entire incident lasted seven hours people were likening it to that's almost like a full work day that's like a full school day then the fact that this allegedly happened at a fraternity house that this allegedly happened at cornell who like every other old prestigious institution has a pretty dark traumatic history of sweeping essay cases under the rug oh i'm so sorry you mentioned that she's also suing her own sorority yes so the allegation is that she is under age she or well she is not of drinking age and the sorority is on campus and they're serving vodka shots they're watching her get drunk and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and the sorority is on campus and they're serving vodka shots they're watching her get drunk and they're watching her get drunk and as she gets drunk her sorority mom takes her in an uber to another bar another establishment where she's going to drink more so it's like they had a reasonable responsibility to prevent her from drinking and getting intoxicated now the punishment for some of the accused is allegedly writing essays that that's alleged in the jane doe lawsuit and that's like a huge pain point for the internet and that's just like naming a few pain points it's obviously not an exhaustive list but one netizen writes hey cornell it's sa not essay i thought you were an ivy league school the essay factor becomes a huge huge point of contention people are demanding cornell to release the essays to see how wonderful they are that they would excuse such type of behavior people are joking that we should have prisoners write essays and the best one gets out to the point that cornell has to release a statement in which they state that their title ix process lasted months it involved at least 12 hearings they had a full hearing in front of a panel of faculty and staff and all of the investigations ultimately led to sanctions including students being expelled suspended and cornell states at its conclusion the hearing panel issued a range of sanctions which included expulsions and suspensions from cornell none of the individuals charged were offered the opportunity to write essays as a sole consequence of their involvement they state any suggestion that the university did not impose consequential punishments for those involved is false it can be used as an excuse to write essays as a sole consequence of their involvement they state any suggestion that the university did not impose consequential punishments for those involved is false it can be used as an excuse to write essays as a sole consequence of their involvement they state any suggestion that the university did not impose consequential punishments for those involved is false it can be used as an excuse to write essays as a sole consequence of their involvement they state any suggestion that the university did not impose consequential punishments for those involved is false a continuation of the false narrative that there were minimal consequences in this case is irresponsible will make survivors feel less safe and supported and will perpetuate the underreporting of sexual assault okay that that last statement is already insane but the wording is very interesting cornell says none of the individuals charged were offered the opportunity to write essays as a sole consequence of their involvement okay so we know out of the seven named in the lawsuit matthew ingalls jonathan newell expelled Winston Lee, Jilio Lopes were issued suspensions and disciplinary probation. Winston Lee for allegedly inhaling ketamine off of Jane Doe's body and forcing oral sex on her. Jilio Lopes for allegedly having sex with Jane Doe without her consent. Now, we were able to find in the John Doe lawsuit against Cornell, which, again, they have snippets of this Title IX investigation, right? That Winston, Jilio, and then the three others that were not expelled or suspended, right? So that's Diego and the two Scots. Their sanctions were no contact order with Jane Doe. Participation in a directed study through COCR focused on the issues of social media use and sexual harassment as well as bystander intervention. Basically a mandated study, okay? And then, respondent will submit to the Title IX office a reflection paper that engages with the specific circumstances for which he was found responsible and contains a detailed proposal for future universities. And then, respondent will submit to the Title IX office a reflection paper that engages with the specific circumstances for which he was found responsible to train undergraduate students around the intersection of social media use and sexual harassment as well as bystander intervention. The reflection paper must also include recommendations to the university's Office of Sorority and Fraternity Life with respect to substance use prevention efforts in Greek life organizations on campus. It's worse. It's worse. So, Cornell is like, no, guys, please stop getting mad at us. We didn't just. We didn't just say write essays, okay? So then, you look it up, and it's like, fine. They didn't say just write essays. They said you have to be part of this mandated study, and you can't contact Jane Doe, which seems fucking bare minimum, okay? But this essay is actually worse than I thought. The punishment is to become a fucking consultant and advisor. That doesn't even make sense. Yeah. Oh, but they do have a rule and a limitation. Use of artificial intelligence tools of any kind in the creation of this reflection paper is prohibited. So, to summarize. One of the accused is to not talk to Jane Doe, participate in a study focused on the issues of social media use and sexual harassment, write a reflection paper. But again, that reflection paper should have a detailed proposal for future educational materials to train undergraduates. You want someone accused of gang essay to write a paper to help educate other students of what? How not to commit gang essay when they've been accused of gang essay? I'm not saying they've been found guilty, but I'm just saying I didn't go to Cornell, but, like, that can't be a smart thing to do. But I will say, Cornell is not lying. The sole punishment was not just to write an essay. There were other things involved. The included panel snippet in the John Doe lawsuit also continues, The hearing panel expects that respondent will take this educational opportunity seriously and apply what he learns to help improve the university Greek life community. The panel imposes this sanction with knowledge of respondent's lack of non-academic disciplinary record and with the intent that it can provide him opportunity. For understanding and maturation as well as actively contribute to the safety of both Jane Doe and the university community as a whole. And again, I'm not saying that the accused are guilty and that they did everything alleged in this lawsuit because, well, this is an ongoing case and, like, what am I, an open door for cease and desist? I wasn't there. I don't know what happened. But it is, in my opinion, that if Jane Doe accuses an individual of something and the school decides that the sanction will provide this accused individual opportunity, for understanding and maturation as well as to actively contribute to the safety of both Jane Doe and the university community as a whole, the language, the wording of that feels like a slap in the face. It's so strange to me that they would use this wording. And again, just to reiterate, a Title IX investigation is not a criminal investigation. But I would still imagine that one would only get a sanction if the panel found that they did do something that required some sort of sanction. That they did break school policy to some degree or break Title IX policy to some degree. If Jane Doe is like, hey, this person did this and this person wasn't even in the room, the panel isn't just going to say, hey, random person, I'm still going to give you a sanction. You still have to write an essay. They had what, according to Cornell, a dozen hearings. Something compelled the panel to hand out the sanction. But this wording is just so weird. So Matthew and Jonathan expelled. Winston and Giglio suspended. There's some sanctions that are happening. The sanctions apply, it seems, to Winston and Giglio. So they're suspended and they have to do this. The two Scots are not suspended or expelled, but they have to, like, I think they have to write an essay. Diego, the one that kissed Jane Doe without her consent, he's already graduated by the point that the Title IX investigation concludes. He's just barred from campus for three years. And now in 2026, after Jane Doe's lawsuit goes public, Cordell makes a series of statements, all of which don't appear to get a ton of support from the community because. Well, yeah, it doesn't take an Ivy League education to understand why. And while netizens are demanding Cornell for answers, they're also turning to the local DA's office because Jane Doe went to Cornell University campus police to report what happened to her in November. Now, they are hired by the university. They work for the university. They don't go and get to try their own criminal cases. There's no, like, criminal court inside of Cornell. So when they have a case, they hand it over to the local DA's office, which is the Tompkins County's DA's office. And it's run by District Attorney Matthew Van Houten. This gets passed off to the DA's office for a potential criminal investigation. That's all CUPD can do. They're like, we investigated. We did some interviews. We got Jane Doe's full statement. Here you go. We can't really do anything else. Now, the Title IX investigation is conducted by the school. But again, a Title IX investigation is not a criminal investigation. A Title IX investigation is not going to lead to any charges or arrest or even a grand jury investigation or indictment. That goes through the DA. Neither Cornell nor CUPD have any authority to bring court. They're going to bring criminal charges. So what's going on with DA Van Houten? Why were there no charges filed in 2024? But let's say that's too much. Why was there no open investigation in 2024? You didn't even investigate? Why did the case not go before a grand jury to let them decide if it was worthy that there should be charges filed against someone, many people, seven people, who knows how many people? Why wasn't it investigated? So the DA's office in 2026 recently starts getting a ton of backlash after Jane Doe's lawsuit goes public. And the DA's office, Van Houten, comes in. Comes out swinging. I've never seen this before. He is so defensive. He is swinging basically at himself and nobody else because he's the only one getting hit by all of his own statements. Like he's literally shooting himself in the own foot multiple times. He said that the decision to not bring charges was not even a close call. He said it wasn't even like I was debating. It was night and day. They put out this memo statement and I've never seen anything like it. It's aggressive. It reads in short, on September 18th, 2026. I learned of the civil complaint filed in New York County Court alleging a series of heinous and despicable acts committed by members of the Chi Phi fraternity at Cornell University against a fellow Cornell student on October 19th. 2024 he says that given the lawsuit's very graphic allegations of criminal conduct he's getting badgered with questions basically of why weren't they criminally prosecuted he says over the past two weeks many people have called my office left voicemails sent emails about this case some people have understandably sought answers others have simply insulted and sometimes threatened my office and my staff while i generally refrain from commenting publicly on criminal investigations the community outrage stemming from the incomplete news and social media coverage requires that i provide an answer to why the investigation resulted in a lack of criminal charges he states very boldly jane doe's sworn statement on november of 2024 did not allege that she was drugged against her will or that she was gang raped he states on the contrary jane doe's statement described her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary conscious and consensual okay so a lot of people had feelings about that so initially when people read it they're like oh my gosh this is the smoking gun jane doe is lying she lied about everything why did she say it was consensual in 2024 and then all of a sudden in 2026 she wants to sue everyone but when you think about it a little deeper so he's saying she said in 2024 it's voluntary conscious and consensual then why would the four guys get expelled or you've got to do something about it i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know yes but also did the journal factory explode why is she telling cupd any of that do students regularly on a basis just go to the campus police and tell them about their wild sexual encounters that they have as college students it doesn't even make any sense you're saying that she said everything was consensual why is there a report why did she even report it that's not normal behavior it doesn't make sense he says my office did not and could not have based our november 2024 decision on the allegations in a civil lawsuit that would not be filed until nearly two years later so he's saying like his decision was based off her original statements he says furthermore i've never been contacted by jane doe's attorneys not to inform me that the original statement was inaccurate or to ask me to reconsider our decision he says that he's the one that reached out to jane doe's attorneys after this new civil lawsuit was filed it's a pretty argumentative statement i feel my interpretation reading it is it pretty much all but calls jane doe a liar it's a pretty bold stance that they're taking considering they didn't even investigate the case it sounds like they already know what they believe happened but they didn't investigate they continue that they received a six-page single-space typewritten statement from the cornell university police department of jane doe's statement now jane doe made more than 20 handwritten notations to the six-page document so they're like okay it's six pages and then she's sitting there writing notes on the side and then she signed it at the bottom saying that this is an accurate statement and it's true and correct so she's saying that she's the one that reached out to jane doe and she's the one that is correct and i understand that making a false statement is punishable as a misdemeanor and i will say even like the framing of that message is just bizarre it's not very friendly to the victim now other people will counter that she's not really a victim based on what the da shares but that's that's also a bold statement but also i guess people are having their opinions but considering the da's office does reopen the case this year this is like a weird everyone's confused and this very aggressive statement by the da's office you're telling me is not going to taint a jury pool based off his statement alone so he came out da came out this year first thing is denies came out this aggressive statement and then very quickly he reopened the investigation and he's like well i'm getting new news i want to see some new evidence and he's like yeah let's reopen the investigation but it's when a da puts out that intense of a statement how are you going to get a grand jury pool that's not going to be biased so he was very defensive at first so defensive it's all about like no we didn't do anything wrong yeah in fact she said she wanted it he basically said she told me she wanted it but he never even spoke to jane doe so it seems like they're just under a lot of heat and they're taking all this frustration out on jane doe now some netizens do not believe that she is a victim but it still doesn't discount the fact that this is not i think a proper way that a da's office should handle any case and any response but they keep venturing on the da's office says i've considered releasing a copy of jane doe's original statement it very well may be that the statement is publicly available through the proper channels and ultimately have to be released i've considered this but decided against it at the stage for two reasons so he's like i really thought about releasing her six-page statement right but he's like i don't want to do that because well he's saying like then i would have to make the right redactions we'd have to heavily redact a lot of things and like the proper time wouldn't work so instead of giving you a redacted version of her statement i would have to make the right redactions and like the proper time wouldn't work so instead of giving you a redacted version of her statement i'm just going to give you like a paraphrasing of her statement which i think probably takes longer than fucking redacting the statement i mean they redact stuff all day long yeah exactly for foias exactly have a whole department all they do is redact and it's only six pages okay it's not the epstein files it's six freaking pages but he's like no i'm just gonna paraphrase it for the sake of efficiency okay i don't know weird now they refer to each they don't refer to the accused names and they don't refer to the accused names it's like male number one male number two male up to seven but when you cross-reference jane doe's lawsuit it's very clear who is being referenced but again do your own research because these are redacted names and i'm just cross-referencing and these are my conclusions of who i think it is i can't give you a hundred percent certainty obviously with anything that's redacted and again her statement is six pages long the paraphrasing they do is obviously not six pages long and i always find it interesting what people choose to highlight and include as details that are not pertinent to the crime itself obviously when there are details that are pertinent to the alleged crimes it's very important but the da's office says on the evening of october 19th 2024 jane doe walks approximately one mile from lot 10 in the city of ithaca to the chi-fi fraternity house at 107 edgemore lane to meet with her friend male number one aka matthew ingles i think right why do they include i mean what's relevant date change of location and purpose of change of location she walks from lot 10 to the frat house meeting with matthew they include the distance it's almost irrelevant what does the distance have to do with anything right but i guess they're trying to subtly say this is pointing out subtly well she must not be that intoxicated because she walked the mile there or even more sinister some people have been drawing the insinuation that i've seen gathered by netizens like look how eager this girl is to go to this frat house who the fuck walks a mile to go to a frat house which a while is really not that long now the inclusion of that very specific detail did make my brain itch a little bit i don't know if it means anything i'm just saying it was interesting the da's office they continue to paraphrase that on her way her mile long walk trek journey whatever she's texting matthew that she's on the way and at this point they say that she said her level of intoxication is five out of ten when she gets to the frat house they say while they're jane doe opened one previously unopened can of beer and again this is like a very specific wording of like i think they're trying to indicate that she was not that drunk when she gets there she only has one beer when she gets there and that beer could not possibly be roofied or drugged or the possibility is low because it was unopened i guess is kind of the insinuation i feel like they're making it up a little bit they're trying to make it up a little bit they're trying to make it up a little bit they're trying to make it up a little bit they're trying to make it up a little bit they're trying to make it up a little bit they're trying to make it up a little bit they're trying to make it up a little bit they're trying to make it up a little bit they're trying to make it up a little bit they're trying to make it up a little bit they're trying to make it up a little bit they're she tells cornell campus police that her relationship with matthew was quote definitely flirtatious in nature and they just include that okay so it's lots of interesting things that they're including matthew brings jane doe to a quieter area asks her about how do you feel about a threesome with another frat brother da writes jane doe agreed due to how attracted she was to matthew on top of her drunken curiousness when she learned that male number two jonathan when she learned that jonathan would be the third participant jane doe remembered being excited because she thought that matthew and jonathan wanting to have a threesome meant that they were gay just like very again very odd and the inclusion of the detail is also kind of odd at this point right and again i'm not saying that one version of events is truer than the others i can't say that because clearly there was no really real in-depth thorough criminal investigation into the accused alleged crimes right but yeah but it definitely reads more doubtful of jane doe's version yeah you know she walked a mile to see this guy she's texting him she's flirting with him they're dancing she was excited yeah because this and that yeah it's like the framing is very specific the da continues to paraphrase that jane doe's statement stating that they engaged in a royal and vaginal sex in one of the fraternity rooms the da states at the start of the relations jane doe described her intoxication as five or six out of ten and that she was quote pretty okay with having this threesome end quote the conduct ended when jane doe noticed that matthew appeared really sleepy and was no longer fully erect she told jonathan that they needed to stop so that they can make sure that matthew was okay jonathan then stops having relations with jane doe so this is a going to take a nap refresh himself and eventually stumbles to the bed while matthew is sleeping the da states that Jonathan starts dry heaving like he's about to throw up and Jane Doe quote began to take care of Jonathan by patting his back while also waking Matthew every few minutes to make sure he's okay while consoling Jonathan on the couch telling him that it's okay if he has to throw up which Jonathan apparently tells Jane that he's not going to throw up but he's pretty sure that he's not going to throw up. Okay so this is really important this whole like patting his back and then Matthew is asleep because a lot of people use this statement as Jane Doe seems like the only sober one. So people who doubt Jane Doe and don't believe Jane Doe they say it's kind of weird Matthew can't even stay awake how do we know he's consenting and Matthew later says what if Jane Doe is the one that essayed me? Anyway and then Jonathan he's like throwing up and Jane Doe is not throwing up in fact she is taking care of two individuals who appear to be unwell. To some degree whether it's intoxication or what have you. I think that's like an unfair assessment okay because I don't know how one person's ability to function as it relates to another individual is some sort of indicator for their own intoxication level. Some people function better with not better but they maintain motor functions a little bit better while they're intoxicated but they might be blackout drunk and still able to walk around and behave in a way that makes them behave like a normal person right. So I think the relation is kind of strange and also a whole thing about ketamine okay. I think a lot of people are saying that Jonathan is throwing up because he's so intoxicated he's so fucked up on whatever he's on maybe the drugs marijuana ketamine all combined he's so intoxicated there's no way he could consent to anything either. No one could consent to anything by that logic is what some netizens are arguing because he's throwing up like how intoxicated do you have to be to be throwing up like that. One thing that lots of netizens have been pointing out is that ketamine inherently makes a lot of people nauseous and it doesn't matter how much ketamine you do it could be the smallest bit of ketamine. Ketamine in some people's system instant nausea. Him throwing up should not be used as some sort of marker for how intoxicated he is but it is being used like that and Jane Doe patting him on the back is being used as she's not intoxicated at all and in that same vein if we're really to say that oh people are intoxicated. Okay let's say Jonathan is not intoxicated. He's not intoxicated is so intoxicated he's about to throw up he's like gagging Matthew's asleep but they somehow get it together to send snapchat messages very quickly like it just is kind of odd like you have to if you're going to apply that logic at one point in this timeline and storyline you have to apply it later too so it doesn't make any sense. Now back to the DA according to the DA they say that eventually Jane Doe and Jonathan would start making out for a very short amount of time and wanting his hand away. Another fraternity brother knocks on the door. He is um this is Jillia Lopes and this is kind of consistent with the lawsuit. Well the one part that we do learn is that I believe this is Jillia Lopes room so that's how he walks in. So it's unclear if he walked in because of the snapchat or it's like his room it seems like it's because it's his room but either way he is accused of kissing Jane without her consent and then as he's making out with Jane Doe Jonathan starts groping Jane Doe from the back and eventually they end up in the bed next to where Matthew is asleep and they engage in more activity. That's the language from the DA right quote began to have a threesome. Matthew eventually wakes up and he says he wants to join too. So Matthew wakes up and he's like oh my gosh there's three of you one of me let's do a foursome. He doesn't say it like that but he's like let's make it a foursome and Jane Doe according to the DA says hell no. Jane Doe quote she didn't want a foursome because she knew that means that she would have to take part in anal which she didn't want. Now I obviously don't have the full six page report okay but I have heard from mainstream media news outlets and while we were researching because they have gotten their hands on the six page report. They don't publish the full report they're just like publishing like it's so annoying ABC News will publish one thing okay and then you have to read and sign up for the New York Times the fucking Atlantic everywhere else and then everyone's publishing like one sentence here one sentence here from the statement and then you're like trying to piece it together and it's like okay now you know anyway doesn't matter but there is a lot of emotionally evocative statements inside of that six page report. There's a lot where Jane Doe is very firm that she did not like what happened to her she did not consent to it. There's a lot of strong language but instead the language that the DA keeps wanting to include is that she didn't want a foursome because she thought that that meant anal. She wanted a threesome and she didn't was happy because she thought that meant they were gay like it's very weird. These are the quotes you want to put in like these are the thoughts that you want to put in like that what is the relevance to that to the crime or the alleged crime right it's weird. Now according to the DA's version of Jane's statement Jillio then leaves the room and a group of other men enter the room so you've got Winston Lee, Diego, and the two Scots. Jane is hiding under the covers. Jonathan is lying in bed next to her. Matthew is sitting on the corner of the bed introducing all these men to Jane Doe and then she remembers one of the guys had said something really rude and mean to her and he apologizes and then just starts kissing her. So Jane backs off and makes him stop kissing her which based off the kissing um I think it could be Diego right but at this point Jonathan is asking Jane do you want to do more ketamine? DA's version. At that Jane Doe remembered that she had taken ketamine at some point on the couch with Matthew and Jonathan during this night but she couldn't remember. Where or when that took place? Jane Doe thought that she had already done ketamine once so why not do it a second time? At that point Jonathan poured a line of ketamine on his erect penis implying for her to snort the line off of his private parts. Jane Doe snorts the line of ketamine which was a heavy amount of ketamine and the other guys I guess watched it and they're complimenting Jane Doe's body according to her lawsuit and her statements that she's so pretty and has a perfect body and one of the guys asks her if they can do drugs off of her perfect body which Jane Doe according to the DA responds sure. So the men are doing drugs off her body. Jillio and another guy. So Jillio just had interactions with Jane Doe. He comes back with another guy and apparently says something along the lines of okay we're shutting down whatever the fuck this is. Which I thought was also weird like if I mind you we think Jillio is male number three right and then according to the DA male number three comes back in. So according to this. He engages in a threesome with Jane Doe and is now coming back in afterwards to shut whatever the fuck this is down. What? Did he shut it down? Not really. He just said that and then left? Well yeah a bunch of the guys leave and then Winston and Matthew allegedly take her up to the third floor. But it's just kind of odd. See if I were a DA do I have a law degree? No. Okay but if I were a DA and I'm reading that I'd be like I already just need to talk to some people because what do you mean? Like you just had interactions with Jane Doe. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Where'd you go? And then you come back in with another guy. Who's the other guy? I want to talk to the other guy. And then you say we're shutting down whatever the fuck this is. Why are you so weird with the language? If everything was consensual then you knew what the fuck this was. It was a consensual threesome. But then now you're saying whatever the fuck this is. What do you mean by that? Like I'm not saying it's weird. I'm just saying I would like to investigate. I would like to interview these people then because it's just a very strange turn of events that doesn't make sense in my head. But the DA is like makes sense. They continue parallelizing. Paraphrasing. Jane Doe felt dizzy due to a pre-existing medical condition causing dizziness combined with the effects of the ketamine use. And the DA paraphrases that the two Scots. Okay. They're like even kind of being nice to her basically encouraging her to stay seated for as long as she needs. Eventually Matthew and Winston Lee bring Jane to an upstairs room and Matthew says let's do more ketamine. Jane Doe remembers snorting more ketamine and remembers feeling extremely high. Matthew apparently says he wants to have sex again because he wants a seduction for passing out earlier that night. Jane says she's tired and asks Matthew what happened to just you and me. And she can't remember how she starts engaging in a threesome with Matthew and Winston. The DA paraphrases she described her level of intoxication an 8 out of 10 at this point. Quote the threesome continued until at some point around 5 45 a.m. Jane Doe said she was tired and needed to turn in. At that point both guys stopped the threesome with her as far as she can remember. The DA's office then later points out that the two Scots were in a relationship and that the two Scots after this paraphrased statement that under New York state penal law every essay requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the essay was committed without the consent of the victim which they do not believe occurred here based off of Jane Doe's original statements. Now here's the crazy thing okay so the DA releases this very aggressive memo about like I'm gonna paraphrase her statements and I'm gonna tell you what the fuck is up and a lot of people just run with the DA's statement. They're like well the DA's statement is that she's a woman and she's so it must be the version of events that is the truest to everything that occurred. Now again I'm not saying it's not I'm just saying the DA didn't investigate so do you really put that much credibility on someone that didn't investigate? He didn't have a conversation with Jane Doe in 2024. He never sat down with her. In fact the statement that the DA's office received from Jane Doe back in 2024 was not even written by Jane Doe. It was written by Cornell University. the police department. So she's being interviewed. - That's crazy. is a transcript of the interview that the da doesn't go through okay she's being interviewed for hours and the police officer that works for the cornell university okay is like paraphrasing and like putting in her little statement it's six pages he types it up and hands it to her and is like is this true and accurate then she makes those little 20 little handwritten corrections she's like well i thought i said this i thought i said this i thought i said this right and then she signs it now at this point you also have to understand if everything happened as alleged in jane doe's lawsuit or even remotely similar there's a lot of trauma she's not going to sit there and say actually let me factually correct so it's like you are not in the right state of mind you're like okay i tried to correct but at this point you just kind of want to get it over with because i'm sure it probably was a lot of emotional trauma yes when police makes a statement like that if she's correcting 20 things yeah that's very alarming imagine because you know we get police report all day long you know and that's the basically the primary source yeah as as primary as it gets and you're telling me there's 20 mistakes yeah what do you mean yeah right but the da is like no this is her statement and i'm going based off of her statement they don't make it abundantly clear that the six-page statement is actually written by a cupd officer that did the interview and then jane doe signed it so it's written from jane doe's perspective but it's written by the officer right so it's not jane doe's written statement now another thing is this is an investigator that is described by many attorneys as with all due respect a regular schmegular campus police officer like the campus police officers are doing intake for things like car break-ins they're not handling something as sensitive as sa even most police departments you think nypd is like the most sensitive to sexual violence and they're not handling something as sensitive as sexual assault victims and know exactly how to talk to someone so that they can feel comfortable and safe even these massive organizations this is campus police you know people are saying they're busting up keg parties they police football games they give out traffic tickets what do you mean and so the way that they're interviewing jane doe is also probably not what is required to talk to someone and ask the appropriate questions to get them to accurately describe what happened to them because sexual assault victims have so much that they are unpacking in their minds it is very hard to get a coherent consistent statement in the very beginning and that is like across the board that prosecutors and police officers have already spoken about publicly for decades one former federal prosecutor says that's literally the norm quote it could be wandering the statements it could be wandering all over the place because they suffered a trauma and they don't know they can't process or express it. she explains that's why prosecutors can't just sit down and say all right tell me what happened that day she says prosecutors have intense training they have sensitivity to navigate and investigate these sex crimes she says this is like the 101 of trauma-informed interviewing and clearly that did not happen here another thing to note is that cu pd never informed or got ithaca police department involved okay so they find out about these insane allegations crazy okay ithaca police department comes out in 2026 and is like hey guys don't shoot us we actually just found out through the media no one told us cu pd never came to us passed off the case nothing yeah because why would they make this into the news right because they work for cornell and the title nine investigation is made up of cornell faculty and staff right so everything is kept inside of cornell and the da's office is like we don't need to investigate what is there to investigate so i you know some people have been bringing up the words cover-up so i'm just saying i mean i guess if it looks like a cover-up smells like a cover-up it's probably cornell just kidding i don't know but not only that not only that the cu pd gave the da's office a condensed version of the statement when the original one that the da's office got like the six page one yeah is already condensed so they had like a statement from jane doe she signed off on it and then it seems like it went through a further condensing so this is like a very condensed version of events okay okay like a little super summary what yeah they read the super summary and they could just get the transcript from the initial interview that jane doe had because cu pd has it the transcript that interview is the basis of this written statement so all you have to do is probably shoot one email over you get it you listen to the statement i don't know or you listen to the transcript and then you're done or you read the transcript you listen to the if it's an audio of the interview you just you get it done that's it and then you can make a better informed decision but the da's office claims they never got the transcript cu pd is like we gave them a lot of stuff so it's like we actually don't know who's lying yeah but had they done that the transcript reflects that jane doe stated to campus authorities that she was r-worded she did not know how many people had sex with her and quote i can say with 100 confidence i was raped there was really no escape how do we know that i think a bc got their hands i don't know if it was abc or um cbs i know both of them have been getting their hands on these transcripts oh the original 2024 interview with the cu pd yes and they're releasing like little snippets of it so her actual account does not match what the da is claiming yeah so the da is like she said everything was consensual but in the transcript quote i can say with 100% confidence i was raped there was really no escape okay she later describes it as quote i felt like bait i felt like lions around me it was just totally debilitating it was a debilitating place to be in in the initial statements she tells cu pd that she agreed to a threesome with matthew and jonathan but there are more than two men in the alumni room that started coming in and she started feeling used she says that she could basically she's saying she went in there consenting to this threesome but things start unraveling and she's no longer consenting and so a lot of people are reading between the lines and they're like oh yes because withdrawing consent is a completely valid normal thing that everyone should be able to do and everyone should respect because yes you can say yes i want a threesome and then decide what the fuck is happening i don't want this anymore right but because she did initially agree to the initial threesome and because the da statement makes it sound so vague and weird i don't want it to be weird it makes it seem like she is upset after the fact so it's weird there are other text messages that people are also bringing up to kind of bolster that argument um people are very divided on this case very divided we're gonna get into the text messages later but she said that she could hear a bunch of guys talking about taking turns with her that's what she reports to cu pd in the transcript okay she says i will never know who all touched me i will not know da's office they don't get the transcript or they don't read the transcript i don't know okay but they don't bother to ask for it or go through it and this report that's typed up by cu pd that jane doe signs off on is like a abbreviated statement and like remember how earlier the da's office said the second time she did ketamine she was just thinking oh i already did ketamine i don't remember when or where but i just thought you know i already did it once so yeah right yeah but the transcript if you get the transcript the statement reads i had become extremely uncomfortable with how this night was turning out so my thought was if i do ketamine again maybe i'll pass out and my thought was if i passed out then if these men had sex with me they would be charged with rape so she's basically saying like i just want to pass out so that everyone will stop and the da translation is i already did it so i might as well do it again yes now is it it could be that he only got this half-assed statement or it could be i don't know right but it's just that was in the transcript of the interview that the statement is based off of now a lot of this the da's office is now they put out this aggressive statement okay cu pd is like hold on um wait don't point the finger at us because like this is what's going on people reporters journalists are getting their hands on the official transcript of the interview and they're leaking little portions they're like well this portion says that she was 100 confident that she was r-worded so like what's going on now people are going back to the da these journalists are going back to the da and the da is like wait wait hold on hold on the da is like we we didn't get all of this we didn't get this information we didn't get it in 2024 and we haven't been getting it for the past two years right so but it's very easy to get that information also the da kept referring to her state of intoxication as like a five an eight out of ten which eight out of ten to me sounds pretty bad but like just the whole storyline but she said in the transcript quote i would say that it was the most intoxicated i've ever been in my life i felt like i was unable to make any decision based off of how intoxicated i was to me that felt like coercion i also felt like due to my intoxication they should have known how intoxicated i was based on how i was slurring my words and even cupd's very first open report like their like writing of the report it reads quote a female undergraduate student reported that she was recently raped by eight to ten men at the chi-fi fraternity house i'm sorry if that lands on a da's desk you're gonna at least investigate right so did it land on the da's desk and the da said no or did it not get to the da but does it really matter so i i think a lot of people are more upset with the da and a lot of prosecutors former prosecutors have even come out and said what the fuck is that da doing in much more legal words nicer words but they're saying like some of them have been more transparent saying like when you're dealing with campus police as a prosecutor i mean they're like mall cops and you're like that's what they're thinking like you're not you're not like oh i'm sure the campus police know exactly what they're doing and like i'm just gonna take their word for it because they're such great investigators and like they really know how to do a case right usually prosecutors are like i don't think you know what you're doing and they're like i don't think you know what you're doing and they're like i'm just gonna take their word for it because they're doing i gotta at least talk to the alleged victim i gotta at least talk to some people and figure it out before i decide if we bring this before a grand jury but no they're like what compelled the da to just take this random six-page report and say that must be all but van houten pushes back he says the transcript wasn't provided to me nobody you know knows this information about the transcript and that gives me something to really dig into because that changes the landscape for me yeah he says you know i'm gonna follow up on this because this is news to me that wasn't information that i had first of all so they're talking about like how jane doe told cupd that she is 100 confident she was r-worded right he said you know first of all i'm gonna follow up that wasn't information i had second of all that's a legal conclusion second of all that's a legal conclusion yeah if she had said those words we certainly would want to have explored that more like i said that wasn't provided to me okay even now she's saying i was r-worded okay i'm 100 confident i was r-worded okay he's saying that's a legal conclusion basically saying she can't yeah you can't say that yeah you can't arrive to a legal conclusion you're not a lawyer you're not the jury you're not the grand jury right you're not anything but if i had seen that i would have investigated like that's what he's saying i would have explored he doesn't even say investigated he said if she had said those words we certainly would want to have explored that more explored that more he says that he never even saw the messages in the chi-fi snapchat group and when he's asked about that he says well that's disgusting it's morally despicable he says the snapchat is disgusting vulgar immoral but the question we analyzed was did jane doe consent to what happened and this law in new york state is clear that if you are voluntarily intoxicated or under the influence of drugs such that your judgment is impaired that does not legally under the penal law constitute your inability to consent yeah he says that is a very difficult concept but it's a concept that i'm constrained by when i apply the law to this case he says if you take that snapchat being vile crude and vulgar that did not have any relevance to the issue of whether jane doe consented to what was happening he's saying this snapchat has no relevance to the alleged crimes what that okay wow d.a van houten jane doe consented to what was happening he's saying this snapchat has no relevance it had become clear that we were not provided the full picture by the university they were the first ones to be able to interview and have their questions answered and just let this young woman tell her story them sending a partial record over is in my judgment a failure but also he said in a previous interview if what's said in social media about this case were true those fraternity members would be in prison right now yeah but that would only happen if they're found guilty and if they are found guilty which again they have not been found guilty they have not been charged with anything criminally but if they are guilty of these alleged crimes yeah they would be in prison but nobody goes to prison without an investigation and you chose not to investigate it so i he keeps like pointing the finger out and it's just like a very long finger that circles back and points back at him yeah yeah jane doe's lawyer is confused saying it's challenging for me to understand how a thorough criminal investigation could have been conducted when she never spoke with anyone other than the officer who took the phone and her original complaint as for the da's office jane doe's attorney says what more did van houten need to do with their own investigation and prosecute he had a woman who told an officer she was raped and a group chat inviting sexual assaults the failure to do anything is shocking neither i nor miss doe have any confidence in da houghton's ability to handle this investigation and prosecution he seems more interested in protecting his reputation as opposed to seeking justice as is his duty as da but now of course he's reopening the case in an interview da houghton states that he hopes to speak directly to jane doe soon to discuss new evidence that exists about her claims which okay again some people believe jane doe some people don't which is you know i think this case has gotten pretty political now that you know a lot of right-wing commentators have taken up this case and really gone to town on it have used this case as a way to try to tear down the me too movement trump has commented on this case there's a lot of political things that are happening in this landscape however i just think anyone who goes and reports a sexual crime and then the da's office rips them apart and now the da wants to talk to them how would you ever feel comfortable talking to them about anything yeah exactly i wouldn't even want to be in the same room as you like what are you saying i'm sure she'd love to talk to you where you said you basically don't believe her and again this is very important because this is the strict attorney jane doe's attorney says the defensive posture i've gleaned from the da's statements lead me to believe that they recognize that there were failures and they are trying to excuse them while i do not care for the attempt to blame miss doe for these failures we appreciate and support any efforts to prosecute the parties responsible for the assaults and will fully cooperate with the da's office to hold these men accountable but have no fear because the da's office gets taken off this case and the attorney general of new york leticia james is actually appointed as the special prosecutor however more on that later because one of these people the accused attorneys is demanding she step down as the special prosecutor because before she was appointed the special prosecutor she had posted on social media and yes and her wording was they believe acceptance of jane doe's version of events i see yeah so it's getting tricky and leticia james has really long standing incredibly deep beef with president trump so he's been saying some crazy things about this case and it seems more so pointed at leticia james and less so about you know justice for university students but anyway more on that later but regardless of which side you're on because again like i said this has become a politically divisive case it's kind of like the lindsey clancy case where it spawned into almost like a gender war and then it kind of spawned into like a political thing and everyone's like oh of course you're a conservative because here's your view on lindsey clancy like i already knew who you voted for like it's almost become synonymous with politics so a lot of people are taking very extreme stances and regardless i just think this was i mean lindsey clancy was bad investigation in this case it was the absence of an investigation and i think it benefits no one jane doe gets screwed and if you think that the accused are not just innocent until proven guilty but you think they're innocent because you think jane doe's story is changing or you saw a text message jane doe sent after the alleged incident right what have you the accused are also getting screwed because a thorough investigation is supposed to bring us closer to the truth and closer to justice and there was no investigation at all so whichever way you think the pendulum swings it got forked up by the da i think the former chi phi member that was hazed remember with the um spicy mung on his private parts he says um every pledge at chi phi went through a similar process i don't know if all of them were sexually assaulted the way that i was but i suspect that many if not most were now that cornell's chi phi chapter has become national news i can't help but see a connection between the way i was initiated and the way the quote cornell seven allegedly gang raped jane doe for years after college i fought depression and addiction today with more than a decade of reflection and years of therapy bills behind me i can see how the cycle of violence that men and boys force on one another binds us to silence and shame this is a dark room to drop into and it's here that violence begets violence and that is where i leave you with the first part of this case um the second video the final part i'm going to try to get up as quickly as possible but it's just so extensive we go through every single of the seven accused alleged statements so i was trying to piece together the john doe statements of the title nine investigation and what they state happened based off of their redacted names in the i'll get into all of that but there are people that are wrongfully being doxxed like wrong individuals being doxxed as being the cornell seven lots of asian people with the name winston lee are getting doxxed from just like everywhere some of the accused are reportedly fleeing the country leaving the country though i will say those are unconfirmed rumors and right now it's not even clear if there's anything barring them from legally traveling or leaving the country but you get it protests are being held at cornell there are calls for the president of cornell to resign and the president of cornell to resign and there's a social media campaign that some people have set forth to try and doxx jane doe and then a bigger social media campaign to protect Jane Doe's identity with women sharing I am Jane Doe on social media to confuse the algorithm, to confuse people on who really is the real Jane Doe, while they also share stories of their own alleged essays, while they share their own stories of what they went through in university colleges or just their own experiences of being essayed. Meanwhile, Jane Doe has been apparently getting text messages, and one has been publicized. It's been reported. Her house got swatted. What? Yeah, and she's getting very threatening text messages. One of them reads, if you care about your family, withdraw the case. You're accusing my cousin of something he didn't do. Do you want to see redacted brains in front of redacted? So it seems like, do you want to see maybe like a family member or loved one's brains in front of another family member? If so, don't withdraw the case. She recorded a phone call. She received in which there's a strange voice. It's almost as if someone is using something to manipulate their voice. Hello? To be honest, man, I'm probably just gonna like, pull up to your house, bro, and shoot different people in your family. I don't really care anymore. Now you're pissing me off by ignoring me. Like, why would you lie on my brother, Jonathan's name, bro? So there's no indication that this individual is related to Jonathan Newell. But you know, that's what they say. That's fucked. And you're just like, ignoring me. Why would you accuse my innocent brother, Jonathan? Fucked up, dude. My brother, Jonathan, man. And you accuse him of something he didn't do? Innocent. Innocent guy. And you just sit there and be quiet. I'd be quiet too if I lied about something. You're fucked. I can hear you. I can hear you breathing. Instead of speaking out, you're just sitting there quiet. If you want to keep ignoring me, I can't guarantee you'll be safe, bro. Like, seriously, I'm being very honest with you. Do you have anything to say for yourself or not? And all the while, you're just sitting there, quiet. And you're just sitting there, quiet. And you're While that's happening, the internet has become completely divided after new text messages have come out where Jane Doe tells one of the accused that nothing illegal happened that night. Some netizens are arguing this is exactly what happens when someone is experiencing trauma. This is textbook for someone to be in denial about what they've endured. Other netizens are arguing this is proof that she is not being entirely truthful about her allegations. Why would she confirm nothing illegal happened and then say something illegal happened? Maybe this is not a case of remorse. Other netizens are passionately debating where is the line of consent? Is it just the words NO? Is it enthusiastic consent? Is it coercion? Like what is, where's the line? And also the Snapchat messages. But that is where I leave you with part one. Stay tuned for part two. Be safe. And I'm sure there will be a lot more updates included in that one because it seems there is new breaking information every day on this case. Stay safe and I'll see you in part two. See you in the next one.