Cornell 7: Jane Doe’s Initial Police Report Released, Everything She Told Police About That Night
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Cornell 7: Jane Doe’s Initial Police Report Released, Everything She Told Police About That Night

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 14, 202653 min
  • Crime & justice

There aren’t many reasons why a pedestrian gets hit by a car ends up being at fault. But at Cornell, a student whose foot was allegedly run over by university president Michael Kotlikoff’s car was banned from campus for a year. A few months later, Cornell faces another scandal. Jane Doe files a civil lawsuit against the university and seven fraternity brothers, alleging she was gang raped for seven hours. Her dream university becomes a nightmare, while some of the accused allegedly receive punishments like workshops and essays. Now, Snapch...

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Very quickly, this is dubbed the Cornell 7 case online by social media netizens. There's a lot of points of pain that netizens were outraged by when Jane Doe's lawsuit goes live. The allegation that this entire incident lasted seven hours.

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People were likening it to, that's almost like a full work day. That's like a full school day. Then the fact that this allegedly happened at a fraternity house, that this allegedly happened at Cornell who like every other old prestigious institution has a pretty dark

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traumatic history of sweeping essay cases under the rug. Oh, I'm so sorry. You mentioned that she's also suing her own sorority, right? Yes. So the allegation is that she is under age. Well, she is not of drinking age. And the sorority is on campus and they're serving vodka shots. They're watching her get drunk.

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