Posted on 10/03/2026 11:42:22 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
About 20 states have laws that can make it difficult to prosecute sexual assault cases if accusers voluntarily drank or took drugs.
As detailed allegations of a 2024 gang rape at Cornell University emerged last month, Summer Willis felt both horror and a sense of recognition.
There were fraternity brothers exchanging vulgar messages about the accuser on Snapchat, echoing what Willis says happened after she herself was assaulted in 2014. And there was a district attorney saying on television that state law had made filing charges difficult or impossible, just as Willis had been told years ago.
“I almost threw up,” said Willis, 32, who heads an eponymous foundation focused on sexual assault survivors. “This is literally what we’re working on.”
The Cornell case, Willis knew, could hinge on an obscure gap in sexual assault statutes around intoxication and consent in states across the country, something she has made it her mission to change.
New York law classifies rape as situations in which the victim clearly refused sex or was physically forced to submit to it. The same is true if the victim was unconscious or unable to communicate. The statute also covers instances in which victims were intoxicated against their will.
But it can be difficult for prosecutors in New York and at least a dozen other states to bring rape charges in situations in which victims were voluntarily drinking or taking drugs and say they were too intoxicated to consent.
In a civil suit filed last month, a former Cornell student identified as “Jane Doe” alleged that she was “plied with alcohol and drugs to the point of intoxication” at the university’s Chi Phi fraternity house and raped by several men over about seven hours on Oct. 19, 2024. Lawyers for some of the...
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Boys know about intoxication and consent
Anyone with enough parenting and status to go to Cornell knows about intoxication and consent Anyone there are no parents in this story but they are there. Behind the scenes. Neglecting their kids.
Depends on who the drunk gal is with.
Girls are not held accountable for anything. That is a huge problem.
Get drunk? Fine.
Go to a Frat party? Fine.
Take drugs? Allow others to snort drugs off your naked body? Fine.
Have sex with 8 guys? Fine.
Spent a few days telling people that you enjoyed it, no laws were broken and you want to go back to the Frat for another party? Fine.
Decide that people are judging you and that you should charge the guys with rape? Also Fine. I mean, none of this was your fault, right?
Well Joanna, this was a drunk skank who figured out she can make millions off her disgusting behavior and in the process ruin of some men’s lives. How about you write that story?
That story doesn’t fit the narrative. Nor does it enable a way to hyper activate the toxic left female vote one month out from the General.
Remember, Hochul changed the law so that Carroll could go after Trump. So I'm sure there's a lot going on behind the scenes.
Reminds me of Crystal and the Duke affair.
Doing things God’s way simplifies things a lot. Unless your wife is a hardcore leftist and accuses you of marital rape.
Upon further the state has decided that the parents of the accused have extremely deep pockets that are in dire need of being emptied.
Woman was snorting Ketamine off of a guy’s penis.
Was that consensual?
>>Reminds me of Crystal and the Duke affair.
There are similarities, except there are no good guys or gals in the Cornell story. In Duke, the guys either simply weren’t there, or left after the stripper arrived as they didn’t want anything to do with that scene. So they were good guys.
Acceptance rate at Cornell is about 9%...Wonder who her daddy is??
and the males were drunk and unable to give consent ... did she rape them?
The 7 guys in her ketamine group “hug” were truly a diverse and inclusive ethnic and racial group. So, Letitia is frustrated she can’t go too hard on all of them.
My point is merely that these are not gentlemen.
The laws and any lawsuit notwithstanding
I don’t want to know about the case. She is idiotic. So are they
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