2026-09-28T14:33:00-0400 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
有关一名前康奈尔大学学生的案件近日曝出更多细节，该学生声称自己于2024年10月在一座兄弟会会址内被下药并遭长达数小时的轮奸。
这名女子仅以“珍妮·多伊”的身份为人所知，案发时年仅20岁。她近日针对7名当时的奇 Phi 兄弟会成员以及康奈尔大学提起民事诉讼，指控校方未能保护她、阻止所谓的性侵行为。尽管康奈尔大学展开了内部调查，但当时并未对涉案人员提起刑事指控。
汤普金斯县地区检察官办公室周一证实，在社区压力下，该办公室将重启刑事调查，并会将证据提交大陪审团。地区检察官表示，这名女子2024年11月的宣誓证词与她在民事诉讼中的指控存在出入，而她的律师则称调查人员从未跟进过她的指控。
以下是目前已知的案件详情：
对康奈尔大学的指控
在针对该校及当时的兄弟会成员的诉讼中，该女子声称，她当时已经处于醉酒状态，前往康奈尔大学的奇 Phi 兄弟会会址探望一名朋友，期间两名兄弟会成员逼迫她服用了他们声称是氯胺酮的药物。她还称，随后他们对其实施了性侵。
根据诉状，事发当晚约凌晨1点42分，一名兄弟会成员在奇 Phi 的 Snapchat 群聊中发送了一条粗俗信息，暗示楼上有一名女子可以发生性关系。该女子声称，随后更多男子进入房间，性侵一直持续到凌晨5点45分。
诉状显示，该女子在所谓的轮奸案发生三周后，向该校警方提交了报告。
“在情绪平复后，她前往校警部门，勇敢地讲述了自己的遭遇。她报警是因为她相信自己是犯罪受害者，”她的律师托马斯·吉弗拉在给哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的一份声明中说道。
“除了最初与康奈尔警方的接触外，汤普金斯县地区检察官办公室的调查人员，或任何接受过性侵幸存者访谈培训的调查人员，都没有联系过她，”吉弗拉说道。
康奈尔大学在她向校园警方提交报告后，对这些指控展开了内部审查。吉弗拉向哥伦比亚广播公司纽约分部透露，其中两名兄弟会成员被开除，另外五人则受到了包括停学、参加研讨会和撰写文章在内的较轻处罚。
“这些人没有一个被逮捕。一个都没有。这一点我可以肯定地告诉你，”吉弗拉告诉哥伦比亚广播公司纽约分部，并补充说，该女子在所谓的性侵事件发生后便辍学了。
康奈尔大学驳斥了部分涉案人员仅需撰写文章作为处罚的说法。
“没有任何被指控的人员仅以撰写文章作为其涉案的唯一后果，”该校说道。
诉讼指控康奈尔大学及其他被告违反合同、疏忽职守以及违反州法律。她正在寻求包括补偿性赔偿和惩罚性赔偿在内的金钱赔偿。诉状并未具体说明她索赔的金额。
康奈尔大学的回应与内部调查
康奈尔大学表示，该校耗时数月对这名前学生的指控展开了全面的《Title IX法案》调查。
“调查结束后，根据联邦法律，此事被提交至听证会，由一组经过培训的教职员工用多日时间听取证据，”康奈尔大学在声明中说道。“投诉人和被调查对象都有机会作证并提交证据。”
该校表示，听证小组对涉案学生作出了一系列处罚，包括开除和停学。
该兄弟会分会于2024年被关闭，至今仍被禁止进入校园。
“任何暗示大学未对涉案人员施以相应处罚的说法都是虚假的，”康奈尔大学说道。“继续传播本案处罚轻微的虚假叙事是不负责任的，这会让幸存者感到更加不安全、得不到支持，并会加剧性侵案件报案率偏低的问题。”
伊萨卡警察局告诉哥伦比亚广播公司纽约分部，所谓的事件从未向他们报案。
刑事调查即将重启
汤普金斯县地区检察官办公室于9月28日证实，在“社区要求重新审视是否对当时的兄弟会成员提起刑事指控”后，该办公室将重启刑事调查。
地区检察官马修·范豪滕表示，民事诉讼中的指控与珍妮·多伊2024年11月的宣誓证词存在出入。他表示，她2024年的证词“并未指控她被违背意愿下药或遭到多名男子轮奸”。
“恰恰相反，珍妮·多伊的证词将其参与吸毒和性行为描述为自愿、清醒且双方同意的，”范豪滕说道。“我的办公室显然不可能基于两年后才提起的民事诉讼中的指控，作出2024年11月的决定。”
该女子的律师吉弗拉驳斥了她在向康奈尔校警提交报告后与地区检察官调查人员交谈过的说法。
“约谈幸存者是一个充满挑战的过程，需要大量时间和经验。幸存者向陌生人分享性侵细节绝非易事。必须建立信任，花费大量时间了解事实并与幸存者沟通，”他说道。“我很难理解，如果她除了最初提交报案的警官之外，从未与任何人交谈过，怎么可能开展彻底的刑事调查。”
范豪滕表示，他从未接到过该女子律师的联系，告知他最初的证词不准确，也从未接到过他们要求重新考虑办公室决定不起诉的请求。
“相反，在诉讼提起后，我联系了珍妮·多伊的律师，以了解最初证词与诉讼指控之间的矛盾，以及根据诉讼指控应采取的恰当途径，”他说道。
范豪滕表示，他已经启动了重启调查的程序，包括与珍妮·多伊及其律师面谈。
“一旦我们确定了合适的指控罪名，案件将以最客观、公正的方式进行起诉——通过向汤普金斯县大陪审团作证，”他说道。
“大陪审团将能够考虑珍妮·多伊的证词，以及民事诉讼指控中提出的任何新证据。如果大陪审团投票决定对任何或所有涉案人员提起公诉，本办公室将热忱地依法提起诉讼，追究到底，”地区检察官办公室的声明继续说道。
吉弗拉告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，他们欢迎重启刑事调查，称这是“朝着正确方向迈出的一步，尽管为时已晚”。
“不过，我希望地区检察官能够认识到彻底呈现和调查此案的必要性，无论延误多久，都要尽所能收集线索，”他补充道。“如果这只是半心半意的努力，我的当事人和我会非常失望。”
康奈尔大学表示，支持地区检察官重启此案的决定。
被告否认指控
诉讼将其中一名被指控的当时的兄弟会成员斯科特·克莱奇马尔列为嫌疑人，据称他在 Snapchat 群聊中发送了两条回复。
他的辩护律师杰里米·萨兰承认这些信息不得体，但表示它们并不能证明性侵行为。
“这种情况就是一条丑陋的 Snapchat 信息——丑陋，仅此而已。……但这并不会让我的当事人成为强奸犯，当然也不会让任何人成为性犯罪者，”萨兰说道。
萨兰表示，克莱奇马尔是在看到“很多人都看过的”那条信息后，短暂进入了该女子所在的房间，并称他没有“以任何方式、任何形式”触碰她，几分钟后便离开了。
“她当时并没有语无伦次，事实上她很清醒，而且确实离开了那个房间，我当事人没有触碰她，也没有任何身体接触，”萨兰说道。
该律师表示，校方认定克莱奇马尔对该女子在诉状中指控的任何行为都不承担责任。
关于氯胺酮使用的指控，萨兰表示，克莱奇马尔接受了毛囊检测，结果显示其体内未检测出氯胺酮。
“我们肯定会提交毛囊检测的证据，这一证据能够科学地证明他并未如原告指控那样摄入氯胺酮，”他说道。
萨兰表示，尽管尚未有人就重启调查联系过他，但“我们欢迎这个机会”。
“我们随时可以提交洗清罪名的证据。我只希望最终能做出正确的决定，了结此案，让我的当事人能够过上正常生活，不必再遭受这名女子对他的自私、令人作呕和恶毒的指控，”他补充道。
安德鲁·米尔滕伯格是另一名被列入民事诉讼的当时的兄弟会成员吉利奥·洛佩斯的代理律师，他告诉哥伦比亚广播公司纽约分部，他的当事人“明确否认对他的所有指控”。
“康奈尔大学此前曾调查过这些指控。如今公开提出的指控与当时报案和调查时的说法不同，”米尔滕伯格说道。“这些指控非常严重，但指控不等同于证据。洛佩斯先生应该根据证据来评判，而不是根据诉讼中的指控或媒体的反复报道预先判定有罪。我们将通过适当的法律程序处理这些问题。”
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻已联系了民事诉讼中提及的其他被告。
莉莉亚·卢西亚诺、金加尔·帕特尔和玛哈·赛义迪为本报道贡献了内容。
Details emerge in case of former Cornell student alleging gang rape by fraternity members
2026-09-28T14:33:00-0400 / CBS News
New details are emerging in the case of a former Cornell University student who claims she was allegedly drugged and gang-raped for multiple hours inside a fraternity house in October 2024.
The woman — identified only as Jane Doe, who was 20 at the time of the alleged incident — recently filed a civil lawsuit against seven then-Chi Phi fraternity members and the university, claiming they failed to protect her and prevent the alleged assault. While Cornell conducted an internal investigation, no criminal charges were brought against the accused at the time.
The Tompkins County District Attorney’s Office confirmed Monday that it will be reopening the criminal investigation amid pressure from the community and will bring the evidence to a grand jury. The DA said the woman’s sworn statement from November 2024 was different from what she alleges in the civil lawsuit, while her attorney claims investigators never followed up on her allegations.
Here is what we know about the case so far:
Claims against Cornell
In the lawsuit against the university and the then-fraternity members, the woman alleges she visited a friend at Cornell’s Chi Phi fraternity house while she was already intoxicated, and alleges that two fraternity members pressured her into taking what they said was ketamine. She alleges they then sexually assaulted her.
According to the suit, on the night in question at around 1:42 a.m., one fraternity member sent a crude message to a Chi Phi Snapchat group chat suggesting that a woman upstairs was available for sex. The woman alleges more men entered the room and the assaults continued until 5:45 a.m.
The complaint says the woman filed a report with the university’s police department three weeks after the alleged rapes.
“Once she was emotionally ready, she went to the University police and bravely shared what had occurred to her. She went to the police because she believed that she was the victim of a crime,” her attorney, Thomas Giuffra, said in a statement to CBS News.
“Other than her initial contact with Cornell Police, she was not contacted by investigators from the Tompkins County District Attorney’s Office or any investigators trained in interviewing rape survivors,” Giuffra said.
Cornell conducted an internal review of the allegations after she filed the report with campus police. Giuffra asserted to CBS News New York that two of the fraternity members were expelled, while five others received lesser sanctions including suspensions, workshops and writing essays.
“Not one of these guys was arrested. Not one. That I can tell you for a fact,” Giuffra told CBS News New York, adding that the woman dropped out of the school after the alleged assault.
Cornell disputed the idea that some of the accused only had to write essays for punishment.
“None of the individuals charged were offered the opportunity to write essays as a sole consequence of their involvement,” the university said.
The lawsuit accuses Cornell and the other defendants of breach of contract, negligence and violations of state law. She is seeking monetary damages, including compensatory and punitive damages. The lawsuit does not specify how much she is seeking.
People walk on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, in February 2024. AP Photo/Seth Wenig
Cornell’s response and internal investigation
Cornell said it conducted a thorough Title IX investigation into the former student’s allegations over several months.
“After investigation, and pursuant to federal law, the matter was sent to a hearing where a panel of trained faculty and staff heard evidence over multiple days,” Cornell’s statement said. “The complainant and respondents had the opportunity to testify and present evidence.”
The university said the hearing panel issued a range of sanctions against the accused students, which included expulsions and suspensions from Cornell.
The fraternity chapter was closed in 2024 and remains barred from campus.
“Any suggestion that the university did not impose consequential punishments for those involved is false,” Cornell said. “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.”
The Ithaca Police Department told CBS New York that the alleged incident was never reported to them.
Criminal investigation is being reopened
The Tompkins County District Attorney’s Office confirmed on Sept. 28 that it will reopen the criminal investigation after being “asked by the community to revisit the decision whether to pursue criminal charges” against the then-fraternity members.
District Attorney Matthew Van Houten said the allegations made in the civil lawsuit are different from the sworn statement made by Jane Doe in November 2024. He said her 2024 statement “did not allege that she was drugged against her will or gang raped” by multiple men.
“On the contrary, Jane Doe’s statement described her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious, and consensual,” Van Houten said. “My office obviously 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.”
Giuffra, the woman’s attorney, disputes that she spoke with DA investigators after she made her report to Cornell’s university police.
“Interviewing a survivor is a challenging process that takes a lot of time and experience. It is never easy for a survivor to share details of an assault with a stranger. Trust must be developed and a lot of time spent learning the facts and engaging with the survivor,” he said. “It is challenging for me to understand how a thorough criminal investigation could have been conducted when she was never spoke with anyone other than the officer who took her original complaint.”
Van Houten said he was never contacted by her attorneys to inform him that the original statement was inaccurate nor to ask him to reconsider his office’s decision to not pursue criminal charges.
“Rather, I reached out to Jane Doe’s attorneys after the lawsuit was filed to understand the discrepancy between the original statement and the lawsuit’s allegations and the proper path forward in light of the lawsuit’s allegations,” he said.
Van Houten said he has begun the process of reopening the investigation, including speaking with Jane Doe and her attorneys.
“Once we determine the appropriate charges, the case will be prosecuted in the most objective and impartial means available — by testimony to the Tompkins County Grand Jury,” he said.
“The Grand Jury will be able to consider the testimony of Jane Doe as well as any new evidence raised by the allegations of the civil complaint. Upon a vote by the Grand Jury to indict any or all of the individuals involved, this office will prosecute the charges zealously and to the fullest extent of the law,” the DA’s statement continued.
Giuffra told CBS News they welcome the reopening of the criminal investigation, saying it was “a step in the right direction, albeit a late one.”
“However, I hope that the DA will recognize the need to thoroughly present and investigate the case and develop what leads they can notwithstanding the delays,” he added. “My client and I would be very disappointed if it is a half-hearted effort.”
Cornell said it supports the district attorney’s decision to reopen the case.
Defendants deny accusations
The lawsuit identifies one of the accused then-fraternity members as Scott Kretzchmar, who allegedly sent two responses in the Snapchat group.
His defense attorney, Jeremy Saland, acknowledged to CBS News that the messages were inappropriate but said they are not evidence of sexual assault.
“This is a situation where there was an ugly Snapchat — ugly, period. … But that doesn’t make my client a rapist and it certainly doesn’t make anyone a sex offender,” Saland said.
Saland said Kretzchmar briefly entered the room where the woman was, in response to the message “that many people have seen,” and said he did not touch her “in any way, shape or form” and left in a matter of minutes.
“She was not incoherent but in fact was coherent and again left that room without touching her or having any physical interaction with her whatsoever,” Saland said.
The attorney said the university found Kretzchmar was not responsible for anything that the woman alleges in her complaint.
As for the accusation of ketamine use, Saland said Kretzchmar took a hair follicle test that determined he had no ketamine in his system.
“We certainly would present evidence of the hair follicle test which demonstrably and scientifically shows that he did not ingest ketamine as alleged by the complainant,” he said.
Saland said that while no one has contacted him about a renewed investigation, “we welcome the opportunity.”
“We are available to present exonerating evidence. I just hope the right thing is eventually done, this case is closed, and my client can live his life and not be subject to this selfish, repugnant, vile claim by this woman about him,” he added.
Andrew Miltenberg, an attorney representing Gillio Lopes, another then-fraternity member accused in the civil lawsuit, told CBS New York that his client “unequivocally denies the allegations against him.”
“Cornell previously investigated these allegations. The allegations now being made publicly differ from what was reported and investigated during that process,” Miltenberg said. “These are serious accusations, but accusations are not proof. Mr. Lopes should be judged on the evidence, not prejudged based on allegations made in a lawsuit or repeated in the media. We will address these issues through the appropriate legal process.”
CBS News has reached out to the other defendants named in the civil lawsuit.
Lilia Luciano, Kinjal Patel and Mahsa Saeidi contributed to this report.