U.S. prosecutors reopen Cornell gang rape case after outcry
Cornell University’s Chi Phi fraternity house in Ithaca, New York, on Tuesday | REUTERS
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Sep 30, 2026
New York – U.S. prosecutors reopened an investigation Monday into an alleged gang rape at Cornell University following claims the elite college failed to properly punish the men involved.
The alleged victim said in a civil lawsuit this month she was drugged with ketamine, assaulted and raped in 2024 by seven members of the Chi Phi fraternity, a social club for male students.
Cornell closed the fraternity and temporarily suspended the students involved, several of whom were later expelled.
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