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Content warning: This story discusses rape allegations.
New details are coming to light in the case against fraternity brothers on Cornell University’s campus.
Amid public outcry over how the Ivy League institution handled its investigation into an alleged gang rape from 2024, a phone call between the alleged victim—known as Jane Doe—and one of the accused Chi Phi members has emerged.
"The only way for me to heal is to know what happened," the woman told Matthew Ingalls over the phone during the November 2024 call, according to a recording obtained by ABC News. “That's why I'm trying to just piece it together, you know, like I'm just like confused.”
Doe added, “If I just know what happened, then I can feel a little bit better and move on and maybe be able to stay at this school.”
During the alleged October 2024 event at the fraternity house, Doe—who was invited by a fraternity member—described being intoxicated and having a sexual encounter with two men that she said eventually grew to include multiple others without her consent, according to police records and Cornell campus records obtained by ABC News.
For his part, Ingalls was adamant that Doe was not impaired.
“You did tell me you were sober, by the way,” he responded, according to the recording. “You did, you said you hadn’t been anywhere.”
However, Doe pushed back, adding, “That is not true. I never would have said that.”
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During the recorded phone call, Ingalls made no mention of the fraternity’s Snapchat group where he allegedly wrote to friends during the incident, “Like you can walk in and whip it out,” according to campus records obtained by ABC News.
Still, Doe inquired about how multiple people wound up in the bedroom where the hours-long sexual encounters allegedly took place, asking Ingalls, “Do you remember how any of these guys walked in?”
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Ingalls responded, according to ABC News, “The door was just unlocked…the party was sort of like crowded…there was nowhere else to go.”
At one point during the call, Doe told Ingalls directly, “What y'all did would be classified as gang rape.”
However, Ingalls cast doubt on Doe’s recollection of events, saying at one point during the call, “It's possible that both of us like remember this and it's not true.”
“I don't think that that's true,” Doe responded. “No, no, because I remember looking up and being like that is too many people.”
E! News has reached out to Doe’s lawyer and Ingalls for comment but hasn’t heard back.
For free, confidential help, call the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673 or visit rainn.org.
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