New details in text messages between Jane Doe and Cornell fraternity member

Updated on: October 13, 2026 / 8:32 PM EDT / CBS News

It was a Monday evening around dinner time when a text popped up on Jane Doe's cellphone on Oct. 21, 2024, less than 48 hours after a night of excessive drinking, drug use and group sex at the Chi Phi fraternity house on the Cornell University campus.

Over two weeks of intermittent texting, in messages obtained by CBS News, Doe told one of the fraternity members they shouldn't feel shame and asked him to look for earrings she thought she lost that night.

She also told him, in a message dated Nov. 3, that "90% of what happened that night was not consensual," and the man replied that if he'd been "less f[—]ed up and even somewhat aware of the situation and how out of hand it got I would've shut it down," adding, "i'm so so sorry."

Cornell's Title IX investigation would later find the man responsible for sexual assault and he was expelled, according to her lawyer and The New York Times.

Jane Doe's lawyer, Thomas Giuffra, told CBS News her messages reflected "classic symptoms of delayed recognition," calling it "a textbook response to sexual assault."

Original source: https://www.cbsnews.com/world/