What happened to Jane Doe on the night she went to a fraternity party — a 20-year-old sorority sister at an Ivy League school with a bright future ahead of her — is now part of a complicated legal case that will examine, once again, the ugly details of that night.
According to court documents, Title IX records, lawyers, Snapchat records and law enforcement interviews with dozens of college students, the following is an approximate timeline of the events that transpired on Oct. 19 and Oct. 20, 2024:
8:30 p.m. Oct. 19, 2024: Jane Doe drank Tito's vodka at the Tri-Delta sorority house and was drunk even before she left to attend an organized sorority social event at Moonies Bar & Nightclub.
The sorority's house mother, referenced in court documents
as Jade, nevertheless went in an Uber with an intoxicated Jane Doe to the bar.
9 p.m., Oct. 19, 2024: The bouncer at Moonies put black "X" marks on her hands to indicate Jane Doe was underage. Still, she alleges she had at least one more drink at the bar.
10 p.m. Oct 19, 2024: Jane Doe left Moonies with a group of her sorority sisters and visited another bar, Lot 10 Bar and Lounge.
11 p.m. Oct. 19, 2024: When Jane Doe left the second bar, she "stumbled alone to the Chi Phi fraternity house to hang out with her friend," who would turn out to be one of the Cornell 7.
She was "visibly intoxicated as she had consumed about 10 standard drinks within the past 3 hours," the lawsuit said. Jane Doe was led into the house by three or four fraternity members standing by the front door.
She alleges one of them then gave her more beer and danced with her before pulling her into a quiet area to ask whether she'd like to engage in a threesome with him and another member of the fraternity.
“In her drunken state, [she] was incapable of consenting to this proposition,” her lawsuit states. Still, she wound up in a room with two men, where she was pressured into snorting ketamine. The men also gave her high-proof rum and marijuana and started having sex with her.
Soon after, another man came into the room and began to engage in sex with her as well.
Doe hid under the covers, but more men arrived — kissing her, groping her and trying to initiate sex as she pushed them away.
'I remember lying down, and covering my face'
"At that point, Plaintiff’s phone was on the other side of the room and she felt as if there was no way for her to escape this room full of predatory, fraternity men," the lawsuit said.
One ordered her to snort drugs off his genitals.
As the night progressed, Jane Doe recalled lying naked in a bed, and two guys entering the room, standing at the foot of the bed.
"They felt more like voyeurs than anything in the situation. They didn't get as comfortable as everybody else did," she told university investigators about a month after the party.
She struggled to remember the sequence of events, though recalled her getting naked out of the bed, and "flexing" and being "berated with compliments." She also remembered someone asked to ingest ketamine off her body, and that she agreed in some form.
"I remember lying down and covering my face up," she said. "And they just poured all sorts of stuff all over me and did all sorts of drugs off my body."
Scott Kretzschmar, of Casco Township, Michigan, has repeatedly stated that he was not in the room when this allegedly happened, that he never touched her and that he never did drugs that night.
After Kretzschmar and others left the room, Jane Doe allegedly was taken to another room, where she was raped again by two men.
5:45 a.m. Jane Doe had lost consciousness.
When she awoke hours later, she walked back to her sorority house in shock — too traumatized to fully grasp what had happened.
She soon discovered that her nightmare had become the talk of campus.
She got a text message from one of the fraternity members who said he felt bad for being too intoxicated to "shut it down and kick people out before it got way out of hand," according to transcripts obtained by CBS.
Doe replied that “non(e) of the sexual stuff was illegal,” but had a large bruise on her buttocks and went to the campus medical center for treatment of a suspected urinary tract infection. She told a nurse that she had been through something traumatic, yet a rape kit was not conducted at that time.
She discussed her ordeal at the Chi Phi fraternity house with her sorority sisters. They convinced her to report it to the Cornell University Police Department on Nov. 8, 2024.
Days later, according to the New York Times, she texted one of the fraternity members, saying that “90% of what happened that night was not consensual.”
A rape kit test eventually was conducted. A police investigation followed. But in the end, nobody was charged.
So, Jane Doe sued.
“What I experienced from those who raped me in the fraternity was the worst experience of my life,” Doe said in a statement to CNN. “I was brutalized and it injured me physically, but perhaps more importantly, emotionally.”
This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: What happened to Jane Doe? A timeline of Cornell rape accusations
