00:00A former South Park writer has created a website to expose the seven members of a Cornell fraternity
00:05after prosecutors in Central New York said they were reopening an investigation into sickening
00:10allegations that the frat brothers horrifically drugged and gang-raped a former student in 2024
00:15and were allegedly given slaps on the wrist. Toby Morton, who wrote five episodes of the hit
00:21Comedy Central show between 2001 and 2003, took to Instagram on Sunday to reveal he created a
00:27website called thecornell7.org to expose the alleged frat bros. I've received messages reminding me
00:34I'm not a journalist. I'm just a satirist. This is true, but this makes me more dangerous. I have
00:41no limits, no boundaries, nobody to tell me I've gone too far. There will be ads. There will be
00:47billboards. This isn't going away. I have amazing support from people I've never met because they
00:52agree that accountability is necessary. Therefore, accountability is coming. Morton also warned that
00:58he was going after, quote, those employed at Cornell who gave you a break. According to a deeply disturbing
01:04court filing, the elite school later offered the accused frat boys a chance to, quote, mitigate
01:10their conduct by submitting essays. Morton's vigilante online justice comes as prosecutors
01:16reopened the investigation into the alleged gang rape of the former Cornell student. After her lawyer
01:21filed a civil lawsuit earlier this month. The September 14th lawsuit alleged that the victim,
01:27identified only as Jane Doe, was coerced into taking drugs, assaulted, and raped by several men.
01:34Matthew Ingalls, Jonathan Newell, Winston Lee, Julio Lopez, Diego Sarabia, Scott Norris, and Scott
01:42Kretschmar at the Chi-5 Fraternity House at Cornell in 2024. The shocking 101-page lawsuit details an alleged
01:50night of terror for the then 20-year-old student that began as an evening out with her sorority
01:55sisters and ended in unspeakable hours-long sexual assault at the prestigious Ivy League College.
02:01After a night of bar hopping, the young woman, who no longer attends the top university,
02:06met up with one of the defendants, Ingalls, at a Tudor-style frat house mansion, her suit states.
02:12When she declined his offer of a threesome with two frat bros, he allegedly pressured her to
02:16snort ketamine for the first time in her life, while also ingesting marijuana and a high-proof
02:21rum, court documents claim. Ingalls and Newell then allegedly, quote, began engaging in sexual
02:27acts with plaintiff, all without her consent. When one frat brother left, another, Lopez,
02:32entered to take his place, the lawsuit claims. The lawsuit also includes a screenshot of a Snapchat
02:38message, where Newell allegedly invited other fraternity brothers to join in on the abuse.
02:43The lawsuit claims the assault continued until 5.45 that morning, after which Jane Doe lost
02:49consciousness. The attack was reported to both campus and Ithaca police about a week later,
02:54and the fraternity and seven defendants were placed on temporary suspensions.
02:58Cornell said it investigated the allegations at the time in line with its university policies,
03:03and that Chi-5 fraternity chapter remains banned from campus. According to the KCRA, Doe's attorney
03:09said two of the seven accused students were expelled from the university, while the rest received minor
03:14punishments, ranging from required written essays to suspension. Many of the accused students have
03:19since deleted their LinkedIn pages, but some appear to have continued their studies at Cornell.
03:24In a September 21 statement, Cornell refused to elaborate on the accused students' disciplinary
03:28outcomes, citing federal privacy law. A week later, the university said it conducted a Title IX
03:34investigation and that, quote, temporary suspensions and other restrictive measures were used.
03:40Any suggestion that the university did not impose consequential punishments for those involved is
03:44false. A continuation of the false narrative that there were minimal consequences in this case
03:50is irresponsible, will make survivors feel less safe and supported, and will perpetuate the
03:55underreporting of sexual assault. Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten told ABC News
04:01that his office is considering bringing criminal charges related to the case, a decision Cornell
04:06says it supports. The district attorney added that he heavily relied on the Cornell University
04:11police's investigation and revealed that his office did not, quote, independently investigate the
04:16alleged heinous incident. Van Houten, however, told the outlet that the allegations in the civil
04:20complaint are, quote, dramatically different than the woman's statement after the alleged gang rape
04:25occurred. He said the office planned to present the case to a grand jury with Doe's cooperation.
04:30None of the frat brothers accused had been criminally charged.
