MEMBERS of the Chi Phi fraternity at the center of the Cornell University gang rape case reportedly sent a photo of the alleged victim before she says they attacked her.
The former student, identified only as , was allegedly subjected to a horrifying hours-long gang rape at the on October 25, 2024, according to court docs.
She alleged in a civil lawsuit that when she was 20 years old, she was drugged and raped by seven fellow Cornell students who allegedly sent sick messages in a Snapchat group chat inviting pals to have sex with her.
Part of this messaging thread in the Chi Phi Actives group with over 50 members included one man saying, “Like you can walk in and whip it out.”
Court papers say a message was posted at about 1:42 am in the group that read, “Free p***y“.
Doe claims that multiple men entered the bedroom she was in and the assaults continued until around 5:45am.
According to social media images obtained by CBS News , fraternity members shared a photo of her in the Snapchat group on the night of the alleged attack.
The photo, obtained by the news outlet via Doe’s attorney, appears to show her smiling with another man.
It was directly after this photo was sent that one member in the chat asked, “Shop still open?” before being told “Yes”.
“This is crazy work,” another message reads.
In May 2025, seven months after the alleged assaults, hearing that she “felt like bait” and “was a sex doll for all intents and purposes,” per the university’s IX investigation.
“I felt like lions around me. It was a totally debilitating place to be in.”
She told investigators that at some point during the horror attack, she was taken into a closet by two of the men.
“It was just raping,” she said, adding that she was drifting in and out of consciousness during the repeated assaults.
Doe says three of the men apologized to her three days after, by which point she says she had already collected evidence, including the dress she wore that night, and gone to a clinic for a urinary tract infection.
According to the lawsuit, she told doctors that she contracted the infection in a “traumatic way,” at which point she was told to “speak with somebody” rather than be offered a rape kit.
On November 7, she took a rape kit test after realizing the full scope of what allegedly transpired, and went to campus police the following day.
No arrests have been made or criminal charges filed in relation to the alleged attack.
The case was reopened last month, and New York Governor Kathy Hochul has now appointed Attorney General Letitia James as prosecutor in the case after “losing faith” in the original investigators who declined to file charges.
Matthew Van Houten, the Tompkins County district attorney, defended his office’s decision not to file charges, saying they never saw a transcript of a conversation between Jane and campus police where she said she was raped.
The district attorney said the original statement did not allege that Jane had unknowingly been drugged or that she had been forced into sexual acts.
“She never says that she was drugged without her knowledge,” Van Houten said.
“She admits to taking drugs and alcohol voluntarily and with knowledge.”
However, in her initial multi-day interviews with campus police, Jane explicitly told investigators, “I can say with 100% confidence I was raped.”
It remains unclear who omitted the phrase from the executive summaries forwarded by campus police to the Tompkins County District Attorney’s office.
Van Houten has also acknowledged that his office had not previously been given the Snapchat image that now forms part of the lawsuit.
Cornell supports the decision to reopen the criminal investigation.
All seven fraternity members named in the lawsuit by Jane Doe have denied the allegations against them.
The U.S. Sun is naming only the men who have publicly responded to the allegations or had attorneys issue statements for them.
Scott Kretzschmar, Scott Norris and Gillio Lopes have all denied wrongdoing through public statements or their lawyers.
The Cornell 7 case, which has made headlines across the globe, is now an active criminal investigation, and prosecution will be pursued if warranted, officials said.
If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, call RAINN (Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network) at 800-656-HOPE (4673).
