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Miranda Devine: The lynch mob is out for the ‘Cornell 7’ — proving we’ve learned nothing from past injustices

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The “Cornell 7” gang rape case is descending into the same lynch-mob hysteria as the notorious Duke lacrosse or “mattress girl” hoaxes of old — only with social media making ­everything worse. 

It seems we have learned nothing from past injustices. 

A young woman who goes by “Jane Doe” has filed a civil lawsuit two years after she alleged she was gang-raped by seven men in a sordid, drug-fueled sexual encounter at the Chi Phi fraternity house at the elite Cornell University, where she was a student at the time. 

Predictably, the fraternity brothers have been judged guilty in the court of man-hating public opinion. 

Yet, according to Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten, citing Doe’s sworn statement to campus investigators in November 2024, she “described her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious and consensual.” When she told the young men to stop, they did. 

While describing the allegations as “heinous and despicable” and “morally disturbing,” he said they were not criminal. 

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He has been bombarded with threats and abuse since news of the lawsuit broke two weeks ago, and has now reopened the investigation, saying that her current lawsuit and her initial sworn statement, signed under threat of perjury three weeks after the 2024 encounter, tell very different stories. 

The alleged “rapists” have been named and shamed by the Cornell campus newspaper, the Daily Sun, and doxed online. 

One of the men has already lost his job, and as The Post........

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