Tag: Sex Crimes
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Cornell Students Question Greek Life Culture After Sexual Assault Claim
With their university under fire in the wake of a sexual assault lawsuit, students are having difficult conversations about Greek life, campus rituals and the possibility for lasting changes.
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D.A. in Cornell Case Hopes to Speak to Accuser as He Weighs New Evidence
District Attorney Matthew Van Houten said a woman’s report to police in 2024 saying she had been raped at a fraternity did not support a criminal case. But he said he is now reaching out to her.
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Cornell’s Chi Phi Chapter Faces Scrutiny Over Assault Accusations
Chi Phi’s Cornell chapter was shuttered after a woman said its members sexually assaulted her. It was one of the oldest fraternities at the school, where Greek life has thrived.
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A Timeline of the Cornell University Rape Investigation
Prosecutors have reopened an investigation into a former student’s claims that several men sexually assaulted her in a campus fraternity house.
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Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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A Tough Ad Reminds Nebraska Voters About a Brutal Crime and a Pardon
A group supporting Dan Osborn, the independent Senate candidate in Nebraska, is airing an ad attacking Senator Pete Ricketts, a Republican, for pardoning a man convicted of sexual assault.
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Kash Patel Suggests FBI Agents Could Go to Election Polling Sites
Federal law prohibits armed federal officers or military personnel from being deployed to polling stations.
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An Heir to a Thai Beer Empire Accused His Brother of Sexual Abuse. Then He Took on His Family.
Siranudh Scott, an heir to Thailand’s Singha beer empire, has prompted a rare public reckoning about a topic considered taboo.