Trauma psychologist: “You cannot determine what happened from the behavior of those affected”

When Jane Doe told her roommates on the morning of October 20, 2024, what had happened the night before, she avoided words like "rape" and "assault." She said only that she had taken drugs at a frat party and had sex with several men.

But she was “in shock,” her roommates later told Cornell University campus police. According to the New York Times, this emerges from internal investigation documents at the elite US university.

This September, the woman, who is publicly known by the placeholder name “Jane Doe,” filed a civil lawsuit against the same men: She accuses the seven students at the time of raping her. The accused deny any wrongdoing.