芝加哥大学一个兄弟会面临一名当地居民在本周提起的诉讼中提出的性侵指控。
A University of Chicago fraternity is facing allegations of sexual assault from a local resident in a lawsuit filed this week.
这名19岁女性并非该校学生，在起诉书中仅以“简·多伊”代称。她指控称，2月在Alpha Delta Phi兄弟会会所举办的派对上，一名兄弟会成员给她提供了“不明酒精饮料”，饮用后她感到头晕目眩、站立不稳，随后在会所一间“偏僻房间”内遭到强奸。根据MS NOW获得的起诉书，事发时该女性“明显处于受损状态”，在身体和精神上均无法给予同意。
The 19-year-old woman, who is not a student at the school and is identified in the suit only as “Jane Doe,” alleged that she was raped at a party at the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity house in February after a fraternity member offered her “unidentified alcohol” that made her lightheaded and unsteady. According to the complaint, obtained by MS NOW, the assault occurred in a “secluded room” of the house while the woman was “visibly impaired” and both physically and mentally incapable of giving consent.
该诉讼于周一在库克县巡回法院提起，此前上个月康奈尔大学2024年一起轮奸案的指控在民事诉讼中重提，引发了全美范围内对大学校园性不端行为的清算。NBC新闻周二率先报道了这起芝加哥诉讼的消息。
Filed Monday in Cook County Circuit Court, the lawsuit comes on the heels of a national reckoning around sexual misconduct at universities, which was sparked last month when allegations of a 2024 gang rape at Cornell University resurfaced in a civil suit News of the Chicago lawsuit was first reported by NBC News on Tuesday.
起诉书仅列出两名被告：管理各分会和会员资格的Alpha Delta Phi全国组织，以及该兄弟会的芝加哥分会。简·多伊声称，双方在确保芝加哥会所客人安全方面均存在疏忽，尤其是考虑到该住所此前发生过多起性侵指控，而该会所由该分会维护已近100年。
The complaint named just two defendants: the Alpha Delta Phi Inc. national organization, which governs individual chapters and memberships, and the fraternity’s Chicago chapter. Jane Doe claimed that both were negligent in ensuring the safety of guests at the Chicago house, especially given multiple allegations of sexual assault at the same residence, which has been maintained by the chapter for almost 100 years.
根据起诉书，2009年同一个月内，简·多伊指控遭强奸的同一Alpha Delta Phi会所内曾发生两起涉嫌性侵事件。她的起诉书称，这些事件加上有记录在案的校园性侵普遍性，本应让全国兄弟会组织及其芝加哥分会知悉，像简·多伊这样的派对客人在Alpha Delta Phi会所面临严重且具体的性侵风险。
According to the complaint, two alleged sexual assaults occurred in the same month in 2009 at the same Alpha Delta Phi house where Jane Doe alleges she was raped. Her complaint alleges that those incidents, combined with the documented prevalence of campus sexual assault, should have put both the national fraternity and its Chicago chapter on notice of the serious and specific risks of sexual assault to party guests like Jane Doe at the Alpha Delta Phi house.
在向 MS NOW 提供的声明中，芝加哥大学的发言人杰拉尔德·麦克斯威根（Gerald McSwiggan）称这些指控“令整个大学社区感到非常不安”，并表示该校“致力于处理和预防性侵犯事件”。麦克斯威根指出，该大学并未被列为诉讼的被告方，并表示愿意与芝加哥警方合作进行调查。
In a statement provided to MS NOW, Gerald McSwiggan, a spokesperson for the University of Chicago, called the allegations “very disturbing to the University community” and said the school was “committed to addressing and preventing incidents of sexual assault.”McSwiggan noted that the university was not named as a defendant in the suit and was prepared to work with the Chicago Police Department as it investigates.
原告的主要律师迈克·格里科（Mike Grieco）向 MS NOW 证实，该校确实不是诉讼的被告方，但他表示在发现新的证据后，可能会修改起诉书，要求学校承担相应的赔偿责任。
Jane Doe’s lead attorney, Mike Grieco, confirmed to MS NOW that the university was not a defendant but said that following discovery, he could amend the complaint to seek damages from the university as well.
Alpha Delta Phi 全国办事处的代表也向 MS NOW 证实，被指控实施性侵犯的该兄弟会成员已被暂停会籍。Alpha Delta Phi 在声明中称这一行为“令人深感不安，且与我们的价值观背道而驰”，并表示该兄弟会“非常重视这些指控”，并补充道：“我们致力于保障会员及所在社区的安全与福祉，会配合执法部门的调查。”
A representative from Alpha Delta Phi’s national office confirmed to MS NOW that the fraternity member accused of perpetrating the assault — who is named in the complaint but is not listed a defendant — has been suspended from the organization. Alpha Delta Phi’s statement described the alleged conduct as “deeply troubling and inconsistent with our values” and said the fraternity takes the allegations “extremely seriously,” adding, “We are committed to the safety and well-being of our members and communities and will cooperate with law enforcement as appropriate.”
原告在起诉书中指控，该兄弟会成员将她留在卧室中直至她失去意识；其他成员最初阻止了陪同她参加派对的朋友去寻找她，直到另一位成员发现她处于昏迷状态后才允许朋友进入房间。原告还称，在离开遭受侵犯的房间时，她“说话困难，需要他人帮助才能行走”。
Jane Doe alleges in the complaint that the fraternity member left her unconscious in a bedroom of the house, and that other members initially blocked a friend who accompanied her to the party from searching for her until another member discovered Jane Doe unconscious and allowed the friend to enter. Jane Doe alleges that she was “struggling to speak and required assistance to walk” when leaving the room where she was assaulted.
据投诉文件称，在那起性侵事件发生的第二天早上，受害者“醒来时发现自己的内衣上有血迹”，随后立即向芝加哥警察局报了案（MS NOW已向该警察局索要了相关报告的副本）。Grieco向MS NOW表示，受害者当天上午前往医院接受了性侵检测。他不清楚芝加哥警察局或大学警方是否对嫌疑人或其他任何人进行了调查；他希望这起诉讼能够促使这两个部门加紧调查。
The morning after the alleged assault, Jane Doe allegedly “awoke to blood stains in her underwear” and made a report to the Chicago Police Department, the complaint states. (MS NOW has requested a copy of the report from the department.) Grieco told MS NOW that Jane Doe went to a hospital and underwent rape kit testing the morning after the assault. He said he was unaware of whether CPD or the university police ever interviewed the alleged perpetrator or anyone else other than his client. He said he hopes the suit will prod both departments to prioritize their investigations.
这起诉讼是在《芝加哥太阳时报》报道另一名女性本月早些时候在芝加哥大学Alpha Epsilon Pi兄弟会会所遭到性侵事件后不到一周内提起的。据《芝加哥太阳时报》报道，这名女性与受害者一样，并非该大学的在校学生；事件发生后她立即被送往医院，相关情况也已被报告给了校园警察。
The lawsuit was filed less than a week after the Chicago Sun-Times reported that another woman recently alleged that she was sexually assaulted at the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity house at the University of Chicago earlier this month. The woman — who, like Jane Doe, reportedly does not attend the university — was hospitalized immediately after the incident, which was reported to campus police, according to the Sun-Times.
该校表示，他们已于10月11日通知学生，当天有一起性侵事件发生在校园附近的兄弟会会所内。两天后，学校再次发布公告，称已确认一名“与学校无关的人员”为嫌疑人，并将其禁止进入校园。
The university says it alerted students on Oct. 11 that a sexual assault had allegedly occurred at a frat house near campus that day. Two days later, a second public alert said that a“person of interest” who was not “affiliated with the university” had been identified and banned from campus.
根据该校Alpha Epsilon Pi兄弟会Instagram页面上发布的声明，嫌疑人“被赶出了建筑”，并在逃跑时被摄像头拍下。该校兄弟会分会及全国性的兄弟会组织均谴责了这一事件，并表示支持受害者及警方的调查工作。
According to a statement posted to the Instagram page of the school’s Alpha Epsilon Pi chapter, the perpetrator “was chased out of the building” and “captured on cameras when they fled.”Both the school’s chapter and the fraternity’s national organization condemned the incident and said they supported the victim and the police investigation.
芝加哥警察局的一位发言人表示，目前没有任何人与这两起事件（即10月11日的事件以及诉讼中提到的事件）有关而被拘留，相关调查仍在进行中。（MS NOW也已要求警方提供关于10月11日事件的报告。）据Grieco和NBC Chicago报道，该校于周三晚上召开了一次安全会议；不过该校发言人McSwiggan表示，这次会议其实是在“Jane Doe”提起诉讼之前就已经计划好的。
A spokesperson for the Chicago Police Department said that nobody was in custody in connection with either alleged incident — the one on Oct. 11 or the one described in the lawsuit — and that both investigations were ongoing. (MS NOW has also requested the police report for the alleged Oct. 11 incident.) The university held a safety meeting on Wednesday night, according to Grieco and NBC Chicago But McSwiggan, the university spokesperson, said the meeting had been planned prior to Jane Doe’s lawsuit.
Grieco告诉MS NOW，这次会议凸显了该校关于兄弟会政策的矛盾之处：该校明确表示不承认兄弟会的存在，但同时却要求官员们负责预防和处理性侵犯事件。因此，“Jane Doe”的诉讼旨在追究学校的责任，而非追究个人的刑事责任。
Grieco told MS NOW the meeting highlighted the chasm between the university’s stated policy on fraternities — the institution says it does not recognize them —and officials’ responsibilities to prevent and address sexual assault. That’s why, he said, Jane Doe’s lawsuit focuses on achieving institutional accountability, not criminal prosecution.
与此同时，据Grieco称，“Jane Doe”在遭受性侵犯时是一名居住在库克县的大学生，如今她已不再在该校就读。“她正在接受心理治疗，专注于自己的康复。”
Meanwhile, Jane Doe, who was a college student residing in Cook County at the time of the assault, is no longer enrolled in school, according to Grieco. “She is in therapy,” he said, “and focused on her recovery.”The post Woman alleges rape at University of Chicago fraternity house in new lawsuit MS NOW