They're being called
the Cornell 7. They are a group of seven men who worked together to allegedly
drug and gang rape a girl for multiple hours at a Cornell University frat house. One of them was friends with the girl they allegedly attacked. Despite the fact that there was significant evidence against them,
none of them ever faced criminal charges.Sign the petition to demand justice for the student who was gang-raped at Cornell University! All men involved must be expelled, fired, and charged with felony criminal offenses!In October 2024, a 20-year-old student had been enjoying a night with friends at her sorority at the prestigious Cornell University. After going out to a bar with them, around 11pm she apparently went to the Chi Phi fraternity
to meet up with Matthew Ingalls, a fellow student she thought was her friend. Instead, she says he began plying her with more alcohol and pressured her into taking the hallucinogenic drug ketamine. She was intoxicated past the point of consent. That's when he and at least one friend seem to have dragged her off into a room and began to assault her.
Text messages confirm what happened next. One of her alleged rapists, Jonathan Newell, wrote to the group chat for other members of the Chi Phi fraternity on SnapChat, inviting others to join in on the assault. He wrote: "free p***y upstairs," as though she was not a human being, but an unimportant item to simply be used.
None of the men on the group chat tried to stop the rape or help this girl. Instead,
multiple men responded with vile comments, such as "Like you can walk in and whip it out," and "This is crazy work."
The group of seven men, including her friend, allegedly
continued to rape her until around 5:45am, for nearly seven hours. She has named and accused the following men:
Matthew Ingalls, Jonathan Newell, Winston Lee, Gillio Lopes, Diego Sarabia, Scott Noris, and Scott Kretzschmar.When the young woman reported the gang rape to the Cornell police department, hardly anything happened. While two of the men were expelled, five others were
simply asked to write "I'm sorry" essays. Then, they were allowed to continue their studies and their fun as though nothing had happened - as though they had not just committed one of the most disgusting crimes possible.
None of the perpetrators were arrested.The men in charge who allowed these rapists to shrug off their crimes were:
President Michael Kotlikoff, Vice President Ryan Lombardi, Brian White, and Provost Robert A. Harrington. Meanwhile, the Tompkins County District Attorney, Matthew Van Houten, claimed that his team had supposedly "conducted a thorough review of the police investigation," but "there was insufficient evidence to support criminal charges."
The only reason we even know about this horrific injustice is because the victim is now suing the university and the seven alleged rapists. Even
her lawyer has been shocked by this case, saying: "There were so many people that could have prevented [her assault] and they didn't. I've never seen anything like it."
We must demand justice for Jane Doe, who was allegedly drugged and gang-raped by her friend and his frat brothers for nearly seven hours! Police must finally bring charges against every single man involved, including the Cornell President and his team who protected these men. The University must also finally expel the additional five perpetrators who they allowed to remain students, and fire the four men who allowed them to write "essays" as their punishment. Sign the petition!