
一名学生声称,她在2024年于康奈尔大学的一个兄弟会中遭到团伙强奸。
A student alleged she was gang raped at a Cornell fraternity in 2024.
据其律师向ABC新闻透露,这名曾指控校园兄弟会发生团伙强奸的前康奈尔大学学生,在提出这起震动社会的诉讼后的三周内,遭遇了一系列威胁和身份信息泄露的企图。
The former Cornell student who reported an alleged gang rape at a campus fraternity has faced a series of threats and doxxing attempts in the three weeks since filing her explosive lawsuit, her attorney told ABC News.
律师托马斯·吉夫拉表示,简·多(化名)对这些威胁感到担忧,但她决心继续推进此案。他说,全国范围内的关注正在提高人们对这一问题的认识,推动立法者重新审视与同意相关的法律,并提供了难得的责任追究机会。
Attorney Thomas Giuffra said Jane Doe is concerned about the threats but vowed to continue the case -- saying the national attention is bringing awareness to the issue, pushing lawmakers to reconsider laws surrounding consent, and providing a rare chance for accountability.
“简·多无所畏惧,”吉夫拉说,“她一直希望为其他女性改善处境,因此不会再有下一个‘简·多’。”在周三接受ABC新闻采访时,吉夫拉指出,简·多经历了校方官员和执法部门“一连串令人难以置信的失职”,最终导致了这一局面。
"Jane Doe is fearless," said Giuffra. "She always was interested in trying to make things better for other women, so there's no more Jane Does." In an interview with ABC News on Wednesday, Giuffra argued that Jane Doe has been subject to the "most incredible sequence of failures" by school officials and law enforcement, which ultimately led to this situation.
“在我30多年的执业生涯中,我从未见过如此令人难以置信的失职连锁反应。我的意思是,这并非单一事件,”他说,“很多时候我都记不清所有细节,因为问题实在太多。可以说,各个环节都存在失职。”ABC新闻已联系康奈尔大学寻求回应。
"It's been the most incredible sequence of failures I've seen in my 30-plus years of practice. I mean, it's not just one thing," he said. "I can't keep them straight half the time because there are so many. I mean, you have a failure everywhere along the line, everywhere."
康奈尔大学在9月21日的一份声明中表示,该校对性暴力指控“极为重视”,并称其“依照大学政策对指控进行了调查和裁决”。
ABC News has reached out to Cornell for a comment. Cornell said in a statement on Sept. 21 that it takes allegations of sexual violence "extremely seriously" and that it "investigated and adjudicated the allegations consistent with university policies."
在随后的一份声明中,该校表示已开展“全面”的《教育法第九条》调查,并“实施了一系列处罚措施,包括开除和停学”。康奈尔大学校长迈克尔·科特利科夫在10月3日发表视频声明称,该事件是“一个具有决定意义的时刻”,并承诺将改革校园文化以及大学的政策和程序。
In a subsequent statement, the school said it conducted a "thorough" Title IX investigation and "issued a range of sanctions, which included expulsions and suspensions from Cornell." Cornell's president, Michael Kotlikoff, released a video statement on Oct. 3, saying the incident is a "defining moment" and pledged reforms to campus culture and university policies and procedures.
吉夫拉还批评了汤普金斯县地方检察官马修·范霍滕,后者最初在2024年拒绝提出指控。
Giuffra also called out Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten, who initially declined to bring charges in 2024.
9月27日,在与“简·多”及其律师交谈后,范霍滕重启了此案。此前,一名女子提起诉讼,指控范霍滕曾对其下药并实施强奸。
Van Houten reopened the case on Sept. 27 after speaking with Jane Doe and her lawyer in the wake of a civil suit being filed alleging that she had been drugged and raped.
在重启案件后接受ABC新闻采访时,范霍滕为自己当初不提出指控的决定进行辩护。他表示:“她一开始显然同意,而且没有任何迹象表明她后来改变了主意,也参与了那些行为。”但他同时指出:“如果‘简·多’在任何时候说过‘我不再同意这件事’,或者用类似的话以任何形式表达出来,而这些人在此之后仍继续与她发生性关系或接触,那便是犯罪。但她的陈述中并未提出这样的指控。”
In an interview with ABC News after reopening the case, Van Houten defended his decision not to bring charges, saying "she clearly consented in the beginning, and there was never any indication that she changed that to the things that she participated in" but that "If at any point Jane Doe had said, 'I don't consent to this anymore,' or in those words, or in any form of communication. If there had been continued sexual activity, contact by these individuals, that would be a crime. But that's not what was alleged in her statement."
上周,纽约州州长凯西·霍库尔将当地检察官从该案中撤下,并任命州总检察长莱蒂西亚·詹姆斯负责接管对该事件的刑事调查。此外,康奈尔大学宣布,本周将聘请一家外部律师事务所,审查该校处理相关指控及后续调查的方式。
Last week, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul removed the local DA from the case and named state Attorney General Letitia James to take over the criminal investigation of the incident. Separately, Cornell has announced an outside law firm would be tapped this week to review the university's handling of the allegations and subsequent investigation.
吉夫拉还驳斥了被告兄弟会成员律师的说法——他们声称“简·多”当时是自愿的,或试图与指控保持距离——并认为这些“自利言论”脱离现实,与当晚目击者的证词相矛盾。吉夫拉还为他的当事人秘密录制部分男子行为的做法进行辩护。
Giuffra also pushed back on claims from attorneys for the accused fraternity brothers -- who argued that she consented or distanced themselves from the allegations -- arguing their "self-serving statements" are detached from reality and contradicted by the accounts of witnesses that evening. Giuffra defended his client's decision to secretly record some of the men.
他说:“她想理解当时正在发生的一切。由于她深受创伤,根本无法真正消化这一切。”
"She wanted to process what was going on. Because she couldn't really wrap her head around it because she was traumatized," he said.
吉夫拉还试图质疑部分男子声称自己当时醉酒到无法同意的说法,并提到了他们邀请他人加入的Snapchat群组。他将该聊天记录称为“铁证”。ABC新闻获得了该Snapchat群聊的完整版本,据称在涉嫌袭击事件期间,超过50名兄弟会成员曾参与该群聊。
Giuffra also tried to cast doubt on the claims by some of the men that they were too intoxicated to consent by pointing to the Snapchat group where they invited others to join. He described the chat as a "smoking gun." ABC News obtained an extended version of the Snapchat group chat shared among more than 50 fraternity brothers during the alleged assault.
那晚邀请简·多伊去房子的兄弟会成员发了一张照片到聊天群,照片似乎显示她在卧室里。据称他在群里写道:“兄弟们来掏出来。”“我不在乎他们的辩护律师怎么说。我不在乎大学怎么说。这就是确凿证据。就像地上躺着尸体,冒烟的枪就在那里。这就是那个Snapchat记录,”吉乌弗拉说。
The fraternity brother who invited Jane Doe to the house that night sent a photo to the chat that appears to show her in the bedroom. He allegedly wrote in the chat, "Boys come whip it out." "I don't care what their defense lawyers say. I don't care what the university says. That is the classic gun.
据她的律师和提起的民事诉讼称,简·多伊因该事件退出了康奈尔大学。诉讼中提到的男子均未在法庭上回应,尽管每个人都向调查人员、在公开声明中或通过律师否认有不当行为。
It's like a body on the ground, a smoking gun. That's that Snapchat," Giuffra said. Jane Doe withdrew from Cornell due to the incident, according to her attorney, and the civil suit filed in the case. None of the men named in the suit have responded in court, although each has denied wrongdoing to investigators, in public statements, or through their lawyers.