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A “Cornell 7” frat bro accused in the alleged gang-rape of a young woman claimed to campus cops that he was too wasted to consent to sex with her — suggesting he was the real victim, according to records. Matthew Ingalls — one of the seven Chi Phi fraternity brothers at the center of the explosive Ivy League case — told Cornell University police that he was the one too intoxicated from booze and ketamine to consent to sex that fateful 2024 night, records obtained by ABC News showed. Ingalls suggested that the alleged victim — a then-20-year-old student only...

After being mistakenly served a lawsuit meant for one of the suspects in the alleged 2024 gang rape at Cornell University, a U.S. Marine staff sergeant and his family are facing threats.

“Seven men drugged and gang raped a 20-year-old woman.” That verdict in the alleged Cornell rape case was delivered by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has joined a chorus of others in pronouncing the guilt of Cornell students accused of raping a fellow student. Mind you, not a single witness has testified under oath publicly and not a single charge has been brought. However, guilt is now being collectively declared from the usual figures and outlets who have never been late to mob justice. Ocasio-Cortez declared, “I want to be clear that the culture of rape, sexual assault, and pedophilia is...

New York Attorney General Letitia James just became the face of the Cornell rape case. This is not going to end well. Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed James as special prosecutor in the Cornell University sexual assault investigation, effectively removing the case from Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten. “New reporting raises serious questions about the information his office relied upon when it made that decision,” Hochul said in announcing the move. James will now oversee the investigation and can present evidence to a grand jury and prosecute offenses if warranted. Whether or not we get justice in this disturbing...

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...

The family of a man who never attended Cornell University says it has faced threats and harassment after mistakenly receiving lawsuit papers intended for another Matthew Ingalls, a former student accused of participating in a fraternity gang rape. The family’s home address appeared on the official court docket, helping online users target the wrong Matthew Ingalls, according to The Free Press. Victoria Ingalls, the unrelated man’s mother, told the outlet she opened her door on Saturday night to find a man handing her a 101-page complaint intended for the other Matthew Ingalls, one of seven men accused of sexually assaulting...

The Cornell University Gang Rape Story unraveled a little more Wednesday when additional text messages between the alleged victim (known only as Jane Doe) and one of the men she’s accusing of rape were released. Two years ago, in the early hours of October 20, 2024, 20-year-old Jane Doe claims she was gang raped by seven members of Cornell University’s Chi Phi fraternity. Until she filed a massive civil suit earlier this week alleging it was rape, all the contemporaneous statements from Jane Doe (that we’ve seen) indicate she voluntarily took drugs and engaged in four hours of consensual group...

The New York Times probably didn’t start their day planning to blow up Jane Doe’s case against the so-called “Cornell 7,” but its own reporting has done just that. Buried inside the Times’ reconstruction of the accusations against seven Cornell frat members is a sequence of events that dramatically changes the picture and essentially tells the world these young guys are innocent and there was no rape. According to documents obtained by the Times, Jane Doe didn’t initially describe herself as a “rape victim” after the night in question. Quite the contrary. She reportedly told roommates what happened, exchanged friendly...

New York Attorney General Letitia James has been appointed as special prosecutor in the Cornell University sexual assault investigation, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Thursday, following increasing scrutiny and uproar over how university police and the local district attorney’s office handled the matter two years ago. Hochul said in a statement that “newly released information continues to raise serious questions about the investigation,” which has in turn “undercut my faith, and the public’s faith.” She said James, who has been attorney general since 2019, will take over the case of a former Cornell University student who alleged in a lawsuit last...

The “Cornell 7” gang rape case is descending into the same lynch-mob hysteria as the notorious Duke lacrosse or “mattress girl” hoaxes of old — only with social media making ­everything worse. It seems we have learned nothing from past injustices... A young woman who goes by “Jane Doe” has filed a civil lawsuit two years after she alleged she was gang-raped by seven men in a sordid, drug-fueled sexual encounter at the Chi Phi fraternity house at the elite Cornell University, where she was a student at the time... Yet, according to Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten,...

The Cornell University Gang Rape Story is picking up steam just in time for the midterms and has all the markings of yet another hoax manufactured to divide the public between those who care more about political and cultural victories and those who care about the facts. It looks like the Duke-LaCrosse Rape Hoax of 2006 all over again. It looks like Rolling Stone’s University of Virginia Rape Hoax of 2014 all over again. In both cases, the failures were based on systemic bias and malice, much of it coming from the corporate media, all of it coming from the...

Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis has been spotted out in public for the first time since his one-time girlfriend, actress Ione Skye publicly revealed that she was left to terminate their unborn child alone at 17. The rocker, 62, was snapped earlier this week in Malibu while grabbing a green juice with a much younger, blonde lady friend. Exclusive DailyMail.com photos show the pair walking out with their healthy smoothies in hand, before getting into a baby blue golf cart and driving off. Kiedis looked casual in a red graphic sweatshirt, black sweatpants, sneakers, and a gray hoodie....

Bachelorette star Brooke Blurton has put her feud with Abbie Chatfield to rest in an Instagram post on Sunday. Brooke, 27, praised Abbie, also 27, for being 'honest and vulnerable' by sharing her own experiences with abortion amid the U.S. Supreme Court's anti-abortion ruling. In her candid Instagram post, Brooke revealed that she had an abortion a 'very little time ago' and called on women to 'come together'. Abbie shared with her fans a photo of herself at six weeks pregnant the day before she had an abortion at age 23, and said there are 'no guarantees the right to...

Abbie Chatfield described the U.S. Supreme Court's anti-abortion ruling as 'barbaric and terrifying' in an Instagram post on Saturday. The former Bachelor star, 27, shared a photo of herself at six weeks pregnant the day before she had an abortion at age 23, and said there are 'no guarantees the right to abortion in Australia will be protected forever'. The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v Wade, ending the constitutional right to abortion in the U.S., means individual states can decide whether abortion can be made illegal. In the photo, Abbie captured a mirror selfie in a bathroom...

Like a pair of old shoes it was comforting to see her name in the headlines every day. Nothing changed. It was Stormy but a calm sameness in a typically fast changing news horizon. Now she's gone. Poof! Vanished. Tossed aside like yesterday's garbage. The cruelty of the media is never ending.