previously obtained by The Times<\/a>, the discipline summaries show that the university based its decisions on a broad and complicated body of evidence.<\/p>\nIn the end, the punishments handed out by the three-member panel, which met on Zoom over 12 days in May 2025, varied widely. The panel, which enforces federal civil rights at the university under Title IX provisions, did not conclude that Jane Doe was sexually assaulted by all the men she had accused, according to the discipline summaries.<\/p>\n
The university investigative files outline in excruciating detail what the fraternity members were accused of doing on the night of Oct. 19, 2024.<\/p>\n
It was Matthew Ingalls whom Jane Doe originally went to visit at the Chi Phi fraternity house at about 11 p.m. She walked there alone from a bar to see him, with her intoxication level from drinking through the evening at about a 5 out of 10, she told investigators.<\/p>\n
After she arrived, Mr. Ingalls asked her if she wanted to have a threesome with Jonathan Newell, Jane Doe said. During that encounter, she said, the men gave her ketamine and alcohol. Eventually, other men engaged in sex acts with her without her consent and while she was incapacitated, she said.<\/p>\n
At the end of the night at the fraternity house, when Jane Doe was near hallucinating, there was more sex, she told investigators.<\/p>\n
Expulsions were handed to Mr. Ingalls and Mr. Newell \u2014 the man who sent a Snapchat message to other fraternity members encouraging them to enter the bedroom where Jane Doe was undressed, the discipline summaries show.<\/p>\n
The discipline summaries show that the panel found Mr. Ingalls responsible for sexual assault, judging that he was willing to manipulate, exploit and endanger Jane Doe for his own self-interest and the entertainment of others.<\/p>\n
A lawyer for Mr. Ingalls declined to comment.<\/p>\n
Mr. Newell was also accused of sexual assault, the university files show. Jane Doe told police on Nov. 14, 2024, that he had struck her buttocks with enough force during intercourse to leave bruises, and that he had manipulated her to ingest ketamine.<\/p>\n
It was not clear whether Mr. Newell had hired a lawyer, and he did not respond to multiple requests for comment.<\/p>\n
Suspensions and disciplinary probation were given to Winston Lee and Gillio Lopes. Jane Doe had accused Mr. Lee of inhaling ketamine off her body and forcing oral sex on her. She alleged that Mr. Lopes had sex with her without her consent.<\/p>\n
Mr. Lee was suspended for two years, with several semesters of disciplinary probation upon his return; Mr. Lopes received a three-semester suspension and two years of probation, the discipline summaries show. Both men also were ordered not to contact Jane Doe, and were required to study sexual harassment and to write reflection papers.<\/p>\n
Lawyers for Mr. Lee and Mr. Lopes did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n
A persona non grata order was issued to Diego Sarabia, who had graduated by the time of the discipline panel\u2019s ruling. Mr. Sarabia, whom Jane Doe accused of forcibly kissing her, was barred from campus for three years.<\/p>\n
The remaining two men, Scott Norris and Scott Kretzschmar, were ordered not to contact Jane Doe, to study sexual harassment, social media use and bystander intervention, and to write \u201creflection papers.\u201d They were accused of being part of a group of men who entered the room after reading Mr. Newell\u2019s Snapchat message.<\/p>\n
A recently unsealed lawsuit filed by Mr. Kretzschmar against Cornell shows that he was not found responsible for sexual assault. Instead, Cornell ruled that he had committed a lesser offense of attempted sexual exploitation.<\/p>\n
Jeremy Saland, a lawyer for Mr. Kretzschmar, said in a statement on Friday that the discipline his client received showed that he was \u201cnever accused of, nor found responsible for, rape.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was not even present during any sexual activity,\u201d Mr. Saland said.<\/p>\n
It was not clear whether Mr. Norris was represented by a lawyer, and phone calls and text messages to numbers listed for him and his family members went unanswered.<\/p>\n
Jane Doe\u2019s lawyer, Thomas Giuffra, said in a statement on Friday that the punishments \u201cdid not reflect the severity of the charges.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the exception of two of these men, all of them will be able to graduate with a Cornell diploma and live their lives reaping the benefits of this coveted degree,\u201d Mr. Giuffra said. \u201cIn contrast, as of today, it is doubtful whether Ms. Doe will even graduate college or ever live a normal life due to what these men did to her.\u201d<\/p>\n
A spokeswoman for Cornell declined to comment, citing federal laws protecting student privacy.<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, and in the wake of Jane Doe\u2019s lawsuit, Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered an independent review of Cornell\u2019s handling of the case. On Thursday, she appointed the New York State attorney general, Letitia James, as a special prosecutor with the power to bring criminal charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The lightest punishment called for writing a paper and completing training. The most severe was expulsion from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[135121,1692,6005,135128,70842,135126,135119,135123,135130,61314,135125,135120,9,24,135122,99091,63,122,124,123,135127,96211,135129,135124],"class_list":["post-364326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-2024-sexual-assault","tag-colleges-and-universities","tag-cornell-university","tag-diego-october-19","tag-fraternities-and-sororities","tag-gillio-october-19","tag-ingalls","tag-jonathan-october-19","tag-kretzschmar","tag-lee","tag-lopes","tag-matthew-october-19","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newell","tag-norris","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sarabia","tag-school-discipline-students","tag-scott-october-19","tag-winston-october-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364326","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=364326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}