US prosecutors reopen case of alleged rape at Cornell University after civil case filed

New York state prosecutors say they will reopen a criminal inquiry into the alleged rape of a woman at Cornell University in 2024. The woman filed a civil lawsuit on 16 September alleging she was drugged and raped by multiple people at a fraternity house at the university. "Once we determine the appropriate charges, the case will be prosecuted in the most objective and impartial means possible" through a grand jury, Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten said Monday. Cornell University said that while it supported the case being bought before a grand jury, "any suggestion that the university did not impose consequential punishments for those involved is false".