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康奈尔性侵调查改由州检察官负责,证据缺口依然存在

康奈尔大学承诺进行外部审查之际,Letitia James的办公室将领导刑事调查。完整证据记录究竟如何处理,仍未有定论。

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完整报道
  1. 第 1 次更新康奈尔强奸案调查重启,地方检察官更正 Snapchat 证据说法
  2. 第 2 次更新康奈尔性侵调查改由州检察官负责,证据缺口依然存在当前位置
  3. 第 3 次更新康奈尔大学任命 Sally Yates;Doe 的律师称收到威胁,被告质疑检察官任命较新

自上次报道以来的变化

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当时

康奈尔强奸案调查重启,地方检察官更正 Snapchat 证据说法

我们当时说尚无定论的问题

  1. 完整的证据审查时间线、大陪审团结果和个人纪律记录仍未得到确认。

    尚无定论

    目前已有更多关于记录和校园处分结果的具体描述,但完整的证据审查时间线、个人纪律记录以及任何大陪审团结果仍未得到确认。 212109

  2. 应关注实际的检察决定,以及有明确调查人员、审查范围和时间表的外部审查,而不是再一次表达意向。

    尚无定论

    康奈尔大学已承诺聘请外部律师,州政府也已任命特别检察官,但尚未确认后续起诉决定,也未确认外部审查是否有具名调查人员、经过核实的任务范围和时间表。 3104109

现在

康奈尔大学承诺进行外部审查之际,Letitia James的办公室将领导刑事调查。完整证据记录究竟如何处理,仍未有定论。

Jane Doe称,她因Chi Phi兄弟会会所发生的事情而离开康奈尔大学。在涉嫌遭袭近两年后,这名前学生的陈述如今成为另一个重大问题的核心:决定是否起诉的官员是否收到了她对当晚情况的完整描述,并进行了审查?她的诉讼指称发生了性暴力;如今的报道还揭示出一个尚未解决的差异:康奈尔大学称其提供的证据,与当地检察官称其收到的材料之间存在落差。10 1 2

纽约州已将刑事调查交由新的领导层负责。2026年10月1日,州长Kathy Hochul任命Letitia James领导的州总检察长办公室为特别检察官,负责调查,并在有必要时提起公诉。前一晚,康奈尔大学同意聘请外部律师,另行审查校方对此案的处理。一项调查涉及潜在犯罪;另一项关注机构责任。两项行动都不能证明有人有罪或存在不当行为。104 109 3

我们在9月30日报道,汤普金斯县地方检察官Matthew Van Houten已重启调查,当时没有报道称有人被提起刑事指控,康奈尔大学也尚未承诺开展Hochul要求的外部审查。最后一点现已改变。由州政府接管刑事调查是进一步的变化,而不只是再次宣布地方调查将重启。

证据争议背后的陈述

Doe的民事诉讼将康奈尔大学和七名男子列为被告,她指控这些人给她下药并对她实施性侵。诉讼称,有人施压让她服用氯胺酮、吸食大麻并饮酒,直至她无法表示同意;还称兄弟会成员利用群聊促成进一步的性侵。由于担心生活和隐私会受到进一步伤害,她使用化名。这些指控尚未在法庭上得到证实。11 10

据报道,警方记录区分了她认为最初自愿的部分活动,与她描述为后来违背意愿的活动。记录称,她多次拒绝、醉酒程度加深、觉得自己无法作出决定,并遭遇了她称为胁迫的行为。CNN还报道了一项称她遭到身体殴打的陈述。这些区分很重要:同意一项行为,并不能证明她同意此后的每一项行为。15 14

CBS News报道称,该媒体取得了一份包含Doe原话的访谈记录:“我可以百分之百确定,我遭到了强奸。”Van Houten告诉CBS,这段话没有出现在康奈尔大学警察于2024年11月提交给他办公室的六页宣誓摘要中。CNN报道称,详细访谈日期为2024年11月14日至15日。NBC尚未独立审阅这份记录;NPR尚未取得该记录,不过Doe的律师Thomas Giuffra确认了她的指控。12 14 1 3

关键事实

  1. 超过1,000据称在康奈尔大学内部调查中整理的页面 2
  2. 约120据称详细访谈记录的页数 2
  3. 6页地方检察官称其收到的陈述,以及Snapchat视频 2

双方对材料移交的说法截然不同。NBC News在10月1日的报道中刊载了康奈尔大学的声明,称校方已移交大量证据文件。CNN在10月2日的报道中则刊载了Van Houten的说法,称他收到的是一份六页的陈述和一段Snapchat视频,而非规模更大的材料集。康奈尔大学此前表示,校园警察已向检察官分享所有调查信息。目前没有完整、注明日期的清单能够核对哪些材料被发送、收到、标明或审查。1 2 12

校方档案的规模使这种比对刻不容缓,但不能证明存在蓄意隐瞒。CNN介绍了《纽约时报》的报道,称康奈尔大学内部调查整理了超过1,000页材料。这并不能证明警方首次咨询检察官时每一页材料都已存在。校园纪律调查和警方调查是不同程序,后续的调查结果不能自动视为在最初的起诉审查期间已有的信息。2

Van Houten随后作出的区分,比他最初的说法范围更窄:提交的摘要中缺少某些具体措辞,但他没有读过Doe的完整详细陈述。报道所引述的访谈内容,对她从未告诉调查人员自己遭到强奸这一更宽泛的说法提出了质疑。他在MS NOW的报道中说:“我无法解释为什么其他信息没有送到我的办公室。”需要逐份比较文件,才能确定相关材料是未被发送、未被收到、未被充分标明,还是未被审查。3 115

我们9月30日的报道还记录了Van Houten对自己先前称未收到一张Snapchat截图的说法作出更正。他承认自己说错了,但仍坚持认为,持有这张截图并未改变他对是否存在同意的判断。这项更正仍是重要背景,但不能据此确认他掌握了完整群聊、后来被提及的视频、访谈记录或康奈尔大学的内部档案。

同意、否认与不同认定

Van Houten为自己依据其称收到的信息作出的原始决定辩护,强调当事人意识清醒地参与了部分活动、同意了部分接触,并自愿使用毒品。但意识清醒本身并不能解决当事人在整个过程中是否始终具备同意能力的问题。CNN在法律分析中区分了自愿醉酒与未经同意被给予药物,并强调应结合证据评估具体行为。Doe的指控和检察官先前的解读都不能最终解决这些问题。4 14

其他有报道提及的记录提供了有待审查的证据,而非定论。CNN介绍了一条归于Doe名下的短信,她在其中称当晚90%的情况并非出于自愿;短信发出四天后,她提出进行强奸取证检查;事发两周后,她接受了盆腔检查。这个百分比是她的描述,并非法医测量结果。没有证据证实取证检查结果或完整的临床就诊时间线,也不能自动把这些就诊描述视为同一次就诊或两次不同的就诊。2

ABC News报道称,三名男子否认参与,并质疑投诉内容不完整;这更新了我们早前报道中的两项公开否认。他们援引康奈尔大学依据《教育法修正案第九条》进行的纪律程序,称该程序在某些方面判定他们无责。这不能证明其余七人都作出了回应,也不能证明对他们的认定完全相同。另一名被告保持沉默不等于承认有罪。9

辩护律师Jeremy Saland告诉CNN,他的当事人没有被指控与Doe发生性行为,也未被认定对性侵负有责任,既未被停学,也未被开除。他称,与Snapchat有关的一项认定导致其当事人写了一篇文章或参加课程,并援引一项毛囊检测结果,称其支持当事人否认使用氯胺酮。完整的裁决和检测结果尚未得到独立证实。不过,他的说法仍凸显了为何不能把七名男子视为有完全相同的行为。14

关于校园处分结果的说法也仍未得到调和。9月30日,FRANCE 24 English报道称,两名学生被开除,五名学生在写作、参加研讨会或遭短期停学后恢复学业。CBS News在9月30日的报道中援引康奈尔大学校长的话称,两人被开除、两人被停学多个学期、两人被认定不对性不当行为负责,还有一人在调查结束前毕业。没有经核实的解释能够说明这两种说法的差异是否涉及时间、处分类别或后来是否在校。校园纪律处分不等于刑事定罪。11 12

监督仍需制定执行方案

Hochul的第64号行政令将涉嫌事件日期列为2024年10月19日至20日,并规定只有在调查认为有必要时才提起公诉。美联社报道称,她对当地检察官处理此案失去了信心。James的办公室获任负责此案,但地方办公室将如何继续协助、如何移交记录以及是否放弃管辖权等具体规定,尚未得到确认。根据现有行政令文本,不能断言存在完成期限。104 109

康奈尔大学承诺进行外部审查是确有其事,但具体落实情况尚未得到核实。Hochul称,她在宣布达成协议前与校长Michael Kotlikoff通了电话。目前尚未确认具体的外部审查人员、审查章程、预算、公开审查结果的承诺或有约束力的时间表。审查是否独立,取决于由谁选任和监督审查人员、他们能取得哪些记录,以及公众能否看到审查结果,而不只是审查人员是否来自校外。1 3 38

范围更广的调查数据无法解决本案。一个二手摘要称,2025年有15%的学生表示,自入学康奈尔大学以来曾遭遇未经同意的性接触;康奈尔大学确认的2023年数据为11%:相差四个百分点,而非相对增长4%。总体学生数据不能替代本科生比例。有关本科生比例上升的报告中,具体的分组基数尚未核实,而且调查参与率大幅下降。这些结果描述的是学生报告的校园经历,并不能证明任何被告有罪。88 102 99 100

截至10月2日的报道,尚未确认已完成对Doe和Giuffra的检察人员访谈、向大陪审团陈述案情、大陪审团作出裁决或作出刑事起诉决定。现在看待Van Houten先前的计划时,必须同时考虑州政府的任命,不能再把他视为唯一掌控下一阶段的人。91 93

衡量这两项举措的标准很直接:收集完整记录,弄清谁审查了什么,并作出有证据支持的决定。责任移交意义重大。证明完整陈述终于得到了审视,仍是接下来的工作。

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  1. On September 30, we reported Cornell had not committed to an outside review. Cornell has now agreed. New York has also placed the criminal investigation under Attorney General Letitia James's office, moving responsibility beyond the local prosecutor whose handling of the evidence is in question. What reached prosecutors, and will the new oversight resolve the gaps in that record?
  2. Governor Kathy Hochul appointed the Office of the Attorney General as special prosecutor on October 1, 2026. The previous evening, Cornell agreed to retain outside counsel to examine its handling of the case. These are separate actions: the state investigates potential criminal conduct; Cornell's promised review examines the university's response to the complaint and its evidence.
  3. The state mandate includes prosecution only if the investigation warrants it. Executive Order Number 64 identifies the alleged incident as October 19 through 20, 2024, more specific than the month previously reported. Hochul intervened after losing faith in the local district attorney's handling. The appointment does not establish that an assault occurred, that charges are justified, or that police or prosecutors committed misconduct. The detailed provisions governing the local office's continuing assistance, record transfers and relinquishment of authority remain unestablished, as do any required reports or completion deadline.
  4. More than 1,000 pages were reportedly assembled during Cornell's internal investigation. Yet Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten's latest account describes receiving just a six-page statement and one Snapchat video, not the larger collection.
  5. Cornell maintains that it supplied a large file and previously said campus police shared all investigative information with prosecutors. It referred further questions about the file's contents to the prosecutor. Those accounts conflict, but there is no complete, dated inventory establishing what was sent, received, identified or examined. The mismatch is not proof of deliberate concealment. A file that eventually exceeded 1,000 pages did not necessarily exist in full when police first consulted prosecutors. The campus disciplinary investigation and the police investigation were different processes.
  6. The detailed police interview is described as about 120 pages. Its reported dates are November 14 and 15, 2024, more than three weeks after the alleged incident. Cornell police submitted a sworn six-page summary in November. That shorter signed statement is not interchangeable with the full interview.
  7. Doe's allegation in the longer interview is explicit: she was raped. Her attorney, Thomas Giuffra, confirmed that allegation. His quotation repeats the word percent, a wording difference that does not change the substantive accusation. These are Doe's words, not a criminal finding. Van Houten initially characterized the supplied statement as not alleging rape. He subsequently distinguished that summary from her detailed account, which he had not read, and said he had not previously seen the explicit passage. A claim that particular words were absent from a summary is narrower than a claim that she never told investigators she was raped. The longer account challenges that broader characterization.
  8. Van Houten acknowledged that he could not explain why additional information had not reached his office. He described the transcript as troubling and meriting a reopened inquiry. He also sought Cornell's 2025 internal-investigation conclusion through Doe's attorneys, with a subpoena possible if necessary. Full receipt of the interview by October 2 is not established. Neither is whether missing material was never sent, never received, inadequately identified or simply not examined.
  9. A Snapchat screenshot was already the subject of a correction in our September 30 report. Van Houten acknowledged that he had misspoken when he said he had not received it. He maintained that possessing the screenshot did not change his assessment of consent. That correction concerns a screenshot, not necessarily the later-described video, the entire group chat, the interview transcript or Cornell's internal file. Receiving one does not establish possession of all the others.
  10. Jane Doe's civil lawsuit names Cornell and seven men. Filed September 16, 2026, it alleges that she was drugged and sexually assaulted at the Chi Phi fraternity house. She uses a pseudonym because of concerns about further harm to her life and privacy. The allegations have not been established in court.
  11. The complaint alleges pressure to take ketamine, smoke marijuana and drink alcohol until she could not consent. It also alleges that fraternity members used a group chat to make her available to others for further assault. Her account distinguishes some initial activity she considered consensual, or was pretty okay with, from later activity she describes as unwanted. She describes repeated requests for sex, repeated refusals, increasing intoxication, feeling unable to make decisions, coercion and being physically hit.
  12. Van Houten's earlier assessment emphasized conscious participation, consent to parts of the encounter and voluntary drug use. One description of his rationale included activity temporarily stopping when she withdrew consent. He stood by his original decision on the information he said he had received, even while reopening the inquiry and seeking more evidence.
  13. Consent to one act does not establish consent to every later act. Consciousness alone does not resolve capacity to consent at every moment. New York's legal analysis distinguishes voluntary intoxication from substances administered without consent, and potential criminal responsibility must be assessed against the evidence for particular acts. Neither Doe's accusation nor the prosecutor's earlier interpretation settles those questions. Describing conduct as morally wrong or disgusting is not a substitute for proving the elements of a criminal offense.
  14. A text attributed to Doe describes 90 percent of what happened that night as not consensual. That is her characterization, not a forensic measurement or a court's allocation of individual acts. She reportedly requested a rape kit at an Ithaca emergency room four days after that text—not necessarily four days after the alleged assault. Another account describes an emergency-room pelvic examination two weeks after the incident. The complete clinical chronology, examination findings and kit result remain unestablished. The two descriptions cannot automatically be treated as either the same visit or conclusively separate visits.
  15. The digital material is also incomplete. It includes a reported photograph of Doe in a room at the fraternity house and a partial group-chat screenshot in the complaint. The group is described as containing about 60 fraternity members. Membership does not prove participation in an assault or knowledge of one. The full conversation, surrounding context, authenticity and individual authorship of every message remain unresolved.
  16. Three men have denied involvement and challenged the complaint as incomplete, expanding the two public denials recorded in our earlier report. They invoked Cornell's disciplinary process as having cleared them in some respect. That does not establish responses from all seven, identical allegations against them, or identical university findings. Another defendant's silence is not an admission.
  17. Defense attorney Jeremy Saland denies that his client participated in sexual activity with Doe or took ketamine from her body. His account is that the client was not accused of penetration or sexual activity, was not found responsible for sexual assault, and was neither suspended nor expelled. He describes a campus finding tied instead to participation in a Snapchat group, with an essay or classes as the disposition. He also describes a hair-follicle test supplied during the campus investigation as supporting his client's denial of ketamine use. The test result and complete individual disciplinary decision are not independently established. The defense account nevertheless underscores why the seven men cannot be described as having committed identical conduct.
  18. Two expulsions appear in both accounts of the campus outcomes, but the remaining five students are described differently. One account says they resumed studies after lesser measures. The more detailed breakdown gives two multi-semester suspensions, two findings of no responsibility for sexual misconduct, and one graduation before the inquiry concluded. Different stages, sanction categories or later enrollment might explain the difference, but none of those explanations is established. Individual findings and appeal histories remain unavailable. A lesser sanction is not necessarily punishment for a proven rape, and a campus decision is not a criminal verdict.
  19. The internal inquiry is described as lasting four months, with more than 50 interviews, at least 30 witnesses and 12 hearings. Those are separate measures, not figures to add into a single witness total. Its exact start and end dates remain unestablished.
  20. Doe's account says she withdrew from Cornell because of the alleged incident. Our earlier report recorded her attorney's claims that she could not obtain a tuition refund for her parents and regularly encountered alleged assailants on campus. Those claims remain unresolved. The institutional stakes are concrete: whether a student's full account reaches the officials deciding on prosecution determines whether alleged refusals, injuries and incapacitation can be considered in that decision.
  21. Fifteen percent versus eleven percent is a four-percentage-point rise, not four percent relative growth. That overall-student comparison concerns reported nonconsensual sexual contact since entering Cornell. It cannot be substituted for an all-undergraduate rate. The surveys took place in spring 2023 and spring 2025. The 2023 figure is confirmed in Cornell's statement; the 2025 overall figure and numerical participation comparison are available through a secondary summary, with the relevant original table rows not accessible for verification.
  22. The 2025 participation account gives 926 respondents from 6,000 randomly selected students, approximately 15 percent participation, compared with 36 percent in 2023. The response share fell by more than half. Participation is not an assault rate.
  23. Descriptions of increases of four percent among all undergraduates and twelve percent among undergraduate women remain unresolved because the exact subgroup baselines are unverified. More than 35 percent of female undergraduates surveyed are described as reporting the relevant experience, but the precise rate, denominator and 2023 comparator are not established. The overview describes population estimates, yet the exact weighting, treatment of missing responses, subgroup precision and statistical significance of changes remain unestablished. So does the detailed boundary between contact involving force, incapacitation and coercion. These surveys describe broader campus experience; they do not authenticate Doe's evidence or prove allegations against any individual.
  24. Cornell has made a commitment, but the machinery of its outside review remains unestablished. Hochul spoke with President Michael Kotlikoff before announcing the agreement. Cornell confirmed acceptance and said it would retain outside counsel on September 30. A university FAQ communication that day also carried the names of Provost Kavita Bala and trustees' chair Anne Meinig Smalling. It did not establish identifiable outside investigators or a binding timetable.
  25. The answer to the oversight question is partial: Cornell has accepted an external examination, and the criminal inquiry now has a state special prosecutor. What remains unknown is who will conduct the university review, who will select or supervise the reviewers, how their independence will be protected, what police and disciplinary records they can access, and whether findings will be published. No review charter, budget or binding completion timetable is established.
  26. The evidence-transfer question is still unanswered. No complete chronology establishes what Cornell sent, what prosecutors received or what they actually reviewed. Van Houten's earlier plans included interviewing Doe and Giuffra, pursuing more evidence and assessing a grand-jury presentation. Some descriptions treated that presentation as planned; others made it conditional on evidence supporting charges. Those plans must now be read alongside the state appointment, not as though the local prosecutor alone controls the next stage.
  27. Petitions and demands for scrutiny or imprisonment express public pressure, not findings of guilt. As of October 2, no completed interview, grand-jury presentation, grand-jury outcome or criminal charging decision is established. There is no established deadline for a charging decision or Cornell's outside report.

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