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Cornell Police Report Omitted Student’s Claim She Was Raped Documents obtained by The New York Times show that the campus police at Cornell University sent a condensed statement to a prosecutor, who then declined to bring charges. At a campus police department on Nov. 14, 2024, a Cornell University sophomore detailed how she found herself naked in a fraternity house nearly a month before, with a “ring of men” around her. She was drunk and had been given ketamine, she said. Her phone was across the room. “There was really no escape,” she said. The woman spoke for hours with an officer, telling him how what began as a consensual sexual encounter with a man she liked spiraled into a prolonged drug-fueled attack by seven men inside the Chi Phi fraternity house. “I don’t remember the very end of the event where I was raped,” she told them. “I can say with 100 percent confidence I was raped.” The officer then condensed the interview into a six-page “voluntary statement” written from her perspective, according to documents obtained by The New York Times. The student, after leaving about 20 handwritten corrections on a draft, signed a final version the next day. nytimes.com/2026/10/01/nyreg…