{"id":61976,"date":"2026-10-03T12:18:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T12:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/cornell-frat-house-rape-accuser-under-siege-online-says-lawyer\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T12:18:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T12:18:55","slug":"cornell-frat-house-rape-accuser-under-siege-online-says-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/cornell-frat-house-rape-accuser-under-siege-online-says-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornell frat house rape accuser &#8216;under siege&#8217; online, says lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During an interview with investigators, Doe told campus police investigators: &#8220;I was a sex doll for all intents and purposes, which is sad but, unfortunately, something I&#8217;m not used to, or something that I haven&#8217;t experienced before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She also said that she &#8220;felt like bait&#8221; as the attackers were &#8220;like lions around me&#8221;, according to records from the school&#8217;s disciplinary investigation, obtained by US media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Social media feeds are filled with women trying to shield the Cornell accuser&#8217;s identity by posting videos of themselves under the title &#8220;I am Jane Doe&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As well as seeking to complicate internet searches for her name, the messages of solidarity included clips of women detailing their own experiences of sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Efforts to rally round Jane Doe gathered pace after a political commentator vowed to unmask her, arguing it was unfair for her to remain anonymous while the men are publicly named despite not being charged with a crime. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Online sleuths have also tried to locate the addresses of the so-called Cornell Seven, leading to at least one case of mistaken identity. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An active-duty US Marine Corps sergeant who had the same name as one of the men was incorrectly served the woman&#8217;s lawsuit, leading to a torrent of abuse and threats, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/exclusive-cornell-harassment-frannie-block-lawsuit-served\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">the Free Press<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c6ly0ljypzrdo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During an interview with investigators, Doe told campus police investigators: &#8220;I was a sex doll for all intents and purposes, which is sad but, unfortunately, something I&#8217;m not used to, or something that I haven&#8217;t experienced before.&#8221; She also said that she &#8220;felt like bait&#8221; as the attackers were &#8220;like lions around me&#8221;, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61978,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61976\/revisions\/61978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}