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Aaron Katersky

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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Aaron Katersky and Peter Charalambous

    'I felt like bait,' Jane Doe said at 2025 Cornell University hearing investigating allegations of fraternity house sexual assault (opens the original)

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    The university agreed to an outside review of the allegations. During a 2025 hearing at Cornell University, an unidentified female former student who alleges she was gang raped at a fraternity house in 2024 described her harrowing night at the house surrounded by multiple men: "I felt like bait. I felt like lions around me. It just was a totally debilitating place to be in." Her description is included in a heavily-redacted 99-page report, obtained by ABC News, that was prepared by the universit

  2. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Aaron Katersky

    Cornell agrees to independent review of how it handled fraternity sexual assault allegations: Governor (opens the original)

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    New York Gov. Kathy Hochul had called for the outside review. Cornell University agreed Wednesday to initiate an independent investigation into how the Ivy League school handled what an unidentified female former student now alleges was fraternity house gang rape, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul told ABC News. Hochul called for the outside review, saying the allegations raised "serious questions about Cornell campus culture" and whether the university is doing all it can to protect students. "I wante

  3. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Aaron Katersky

    Cornell student said encounter at fraternity house 'felt like coercion' in 2024 statement to police (opens the original)

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    ABC News obtained the woman's 2024 statement to campus police. In a six-page statement given to police in November 2024, a Cornell University student told a campus police officer what happened to her at the Chi Phi fraternity house a month prior "felt like coercion," according to a copy of the police report obtained by ABC News. The statement from the student, sworn on Nov. 15, 2024, is the most detailed account yet of what "Jane Doe" described in a civil lawsuit two years later as a "gang rape.

  4. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Aaron Katersky, ABC News

    Cornell student who made rape allegations said sexual encounters ‘felt like coercion’ in 2024 statement (opens the original)

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    (NEW YORK) — A Cornell University student detailed the night that she was allegedly sexually assaulted in a statement to police two years ago — describing that she was felt incapacitated, saying she declined to participate in some of the sexual activity and that the incidents at Chi Phi fraternity house “felt like coercion,” according to a copy of the police report obtained by ABC News. The developments in the case, which sparked a furor, come in the wake of the alleged victim in the case filing

  5. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Aaron Katersky

    DA defends decision not to prosecute alleged Cornell 'gang rape' case in 2024 (opens the original)

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    Tompkins County DA Matthew Van Houten announced he was reopening the case. Prosecutors in upstate New York are defending their decision not to bring charges in 2024 after an alleged "gang rape" at a Cornell University fraternity. Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten described the allegations as “morally disturbing” but argued that the facts he knew at the time did not support a prosecution. “If what was said on social media about this case was true, those fraternity members would

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