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\u201cI don\u2019t think it was ever consensual,\u201d Jane Doe’s attorney says\n <\/p>\n
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\u201cI don\u2019t think it was ever consensual,\u201d Jane Doe’s attorney says<\/p>\n
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\n Jane Doe\u2019s attorney says he believes she did not consent to any of the sexual encounters that are the focus of her allegations that she was drugged and gang raped at a Cornell University fraternity house in 2024<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cI don\u2019t think it was ever consensual,\u201d Giuffra told CNN said when asked about encounters to which Doe testified in documents.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cShe showed up at the Chi Phi house, heavily intoxicated. There was testimony not just from the people involved in the assault, but there was a lot of testimony from people who were around that time, saw her that day. And by all accounts, she was completely, completely intoxicated. She couldn\u2019t consent to anything,\u201d Giuffra said.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cSo I don\u2019t think she ever consented and was incapable of consenting because of the level of intoxication, and the fact that she was plied with drugs. She couldn\u2019t consent to anything,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n \n Key context: In a 2024 statement to Cornell police, obtained by CNN from a source familiar with the investigation, Doe said<\/a> she was asked to participate in a threesome while at Chi Phi on October 19. She told police she was \u201cpretty ok\u201d with aspects of an initial encounter, but that later in the night she did not consent to other sexual activities, according to the statement. She said she \u201cwas unable to make any decisions because of how intoxicated I was\u201d; described being \u201chorrified\u201d as more men entered the room; and said she \u201cfinally gave in\u201d to one later encounter after she was asked \u201cto have sex so many times,\u201d describing it as \u201ccoercion,\u201d according to the statement.\n <\/p>\n \n But a separate document \u2014 a transcript of a November 2024 interview with campus police, according to WCBS<\/a> \u2014 shows Doe made a more explicit accusation. \u201cI can say with 100% confidence I was raped,\u201d Doe said in the transcript, according to WCBS. This transcript was not initially given to prosecutors, according to the local district attorney<\/a> and the governor<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n \n Giuffra on Friday also referred to a Cornell document that summarizes key evidence included in a university disciplinary panel\u2019s decision. In a hearing months after the alleged assault, she told Cornell investigators she \u201cfelt like bait\u201d and \u201cfelt like lions around me\u201d at the house, according to a heavily redacted version of the 99-page document<\/a> obtained by CNN.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cI mean, that\u2019s being trapped. That\u2019s physically helpless,\u201d Giuffra told CNN.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI don\u2019t think it was ever consensual,\u201d Jane Doe’s attorney says \u201cI don\u2019t think it was ever consensual,\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-363214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}