The former Cornell student who reported an alleged gang rape<\/a> at a campus fraternity has faced a series of threats and doxxing attempts in the three weeks since filing her explosive lawsuit, her attorney told ABC News.\u00a0<\/p>\n Attorney Thomas Giuffra said Jane Doe is concerned about the threats but vowed to continue the case — saying the national attention is bringing awareness to the issue, pushing lawmakers to reconsider laws surrounding consent, and providing a rare chance for accountability.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Jane Doe is fearless,”\u00a0said Giuffra. “She always was interested in trying to make things better for other women, so there’s no more Jane Does.”\u00a0<\/p>\n In an interview with ABC News on Wednesday, Giuffra argued that Jane Doe has been subject to the “most incredible sequence of failures” by school officials and law enforcement, which ultimately led to this situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n “It’s been the most incredible sequence of failures I’ve seen in my 30-plus years of practice. I mean, it’s not just one thing,” he said. “I can’t keep them straight half the time because there are so many. I mean, you have a failure everywhere along the line, everywhere.”<\/p>\n ABC News has reached out to Cornell for a comment.<\/p>\n Cornell said in a statement on Sept. 21 that it takes allegations of sexual violence “extremely seriously” and that it “investigated and adjudicated the allegations consistent with university policies.”<\/p>\n A student walks past a Cornell University sign in Ithaca, N.Y., September 28, 2026. (AP Photo\/Heather Ainsworth)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Heather Ainsworth\/AP Photo<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n In a subsequent statement, the school said it conducted a “thorough” Title IX investigation<\/a> and “issued a range of sanctions, which included expulsions and suspensions from Cornell.”<\/p>\n Cornell’s president, Michael Kotlikoff, released a video statement<\/a> on Oct. 3, saying the incident is a “defining moment” and pledged reforms to campus culture and university policies and procedures.<\/p>\n Giuffra also called out Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten, who initially declined to bring charges in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n Van Houten reopened the case on Sept. 27 after speaking with Jane Doe and her lawyer in the wake of a civil suit being filed alleging that she had been drugged and raped.<\/p>\n In an interview with ABC News after reopening the case, Van Houten defended his decision not to bring charges, saying “she clearly consented in the beginning, and there was never any indication that she changed that to the things that she participated in” but that “If at any point Jane Doe had said, ‘I don’t consent to this anymore,’ or in those words, or in any form of communication. If there had been continued sexual activity, contact by these individuals, that would be a crime. But that’s not what was alleged in her statement.”<\/p>\n![\"PHOTO:](\"https:\/\/i.abcnewsfe.com\/a\/6f140ab2-4e4b-493f-85d8-2aebb755b4da\/Cornell-university-ap-290926_1790707841042_hpEmbed_3_23x15.jpg?w=375 "\\"College")
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