One of the Cornell fraternity brothers at the center of the Jane Doe case is now claiming he was the real victim. Matthew Ingalls, one of the seven former Chi Phi members accused of sexually assaulting Jane Doe in October 2024, told Cornell campus police he was too intoxicated from alcohol and ketamine to consent to sex that night, according to records obtained by ABC News.
The implication is blunt: Ingalls suggested Jane Doe was the one who assaulted him. That sits next to the group chat messages attributed to him in the lawsuit, where he posted a photo of Jane Doe naked in bed and invited his fraternity brothers to join her.
It also sits next to the secretly recorded phone call, which ABC News aired Monday on Good Morning America. On the call, Jane Doe confronts Ingalls about that night, tells him she arrived at the house already heavily intoxicated, and says what happened could be classified as gang rape. Ingalls insists she told him she was sober, suggests both their memories might be unreliable, and never mentions the group chat messages.
None of the seven men has been criminally charged. Cornell’s Title IX panel expelled Ingalls and another member, Johnathan Newell, per records reviewed by ABC News. Governor Kathy Hochul has appointed Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor, saying she had lost faith in the Tompkins County DA’s handling of the case.
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