US prosecutors reopen case of alleged gang rape at Cornell University
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New York state prosecutors say they will reopen a criminal inquiry into the alleged rape of a woman at Cornell University in 2024.
纽约州检察官表示，他们将于 2024 年重新对康奈尔大学涉嫌强奸一名妇女的刑事调查。
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.
该女子于 9 月 16 日提起民事诉讼，指控她在大学兄弟会宿舍内被多人下药并强奸。
"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.
汤普金斯县地方检察官马修·范·豪顿周一表示，“一旦我们确定了适当的指控，该案将通过大陪审团以最客观和公正的方式进行起诉”。
Cornell University said that while it supported the case being brought before a grand jury, "any suggestion that the university did not impose consequential punishments for those involved is false".
康奈尔大学表示，虽然它支持将此案提交大陪审团审理，但“任何有关该大学没有对涉案人员施加相应惩罚的说法都是错误的”。
The woman, referred to in court documents as Jane Doe, alleges in her lawsuit that on the night of 19 October 2024, seven men from Cornell's Chi Phi fraternity chapter allegedly assaulted her in an incident involving alcohol and the drug ketamine.
法庭文件中称这名女子为 Jane Doe，她在诉讼中声称，2024 年 10 月 19 日晚，康奈尔大学 Chi Phi 兄弟会分会的 7 名男子涉嫌在涉及酒精和氯胺酮的事件中袭击了她。
Jane Doe said in her lawsuit that she was intoxicated during the alleged incident and was incapable of providing consent.
无名氏在诉讼中表示，她在所称事件中喝醉了，无法表示同意。
She said she reported the incident to Cornell University Police on 8 November 2024.
她说她于 2024 年 11 月 8 日向康奈尔大学警方报告了这一事件。
The lawsuit also contains an image purported to be from a Snapchat fraternity group chat, in which a participant alerted other members, in vulgar terms, to the potential for a sexual encounter with Jane Doe.
该诉讼还包含一张据称来自 Snapchat 兄弟会群聊的图片，其中一名参与者用粗俗的语言提醒其他成员注意与无名氏发生性接触的可能性。
Van Houten said on Monday that at the time of the assault two years ago, his office concluded that evidence from her statement to authorities did not meet the legal threshold to bring charges.
范豪顿周一表示，两年前袭击发生时，他的办公室得出的结论是，她向当局提供的陈述中的证据不符合提起指控的法律门槛。
He said he reached out to Jane Doe and her lawyers for more information as he prepared to bring the case to a grand jury.
他说，当他准备将此案提交大陪审团时，他联系了无名氏和她的律师以获取更多信息。
In the US legal system, prosecutors convene grand juries to weigh evidence and testimony and eventually vote on whether they merit criminal charges.
在美国法律体系中，检察官召集大陪审团来权衡证据和证词，并最终投票决定是否应提出刑事指控。
In his statement, Van Houten included a summary of what Jane Doe told the Cornell University Police Department in 2024 after the alleged attack. He noted the statement differed from the allegations laid out in the lawsuit.
Van Houten 在声明中总结了 Jane Doe 在 2024 年涉嫌袭击事件后向康奈尔大学警察局讲述的情况。 他指出，该声明与诉讼中提出的指控不同。
"Jane Doe's sworn statement in November of 2024 did not allege that she was drugged against her will or gang raped," Van Houten said in a statement on Monday.
范豪顿在周一的一份声明中表示：“无名氏在 2024 年 11 月的宣誓声明中并没有声称她在违背自己意愿的情况下被下药或遭到轮奸。”
"On the contrary, Jane Doe's statement described her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious, and consensual."
“相反，无名氏的声明将她参与吸毒和性行为描述为自愿、有意识和双方同意的。”
Van Houten added that Jane Doe's lawyers had never been in touch with him to say her original statement was inaccurate or to ask him to reconsider his decision not to bring charges.
范豪顿补充说，无名氏的律师从未与他联系，表示她最初的陈述不准确，或要求他重新考虑不提出指控的决定。
He later acknowledged "the reality that it can take years of therapy and healing for victims of sexual assaults to fully process and understand what happened to them".
他后来承认“现实是，性侵犯的受害者可能需要多年的治疗和康复才能完全处理和理解发生在他们身上的事情”。
The BBC has contacted Jane Doe's lawyer, Thomas Giuffra. In a statement on Monday obtained by CBS, the BBC's US partner, he said: "In the days following the assault, [Jane Doe] was traumatised, numb and unable to function or accept the horror of what had happened. She was in self-preservation mode."
BBC 已联系了无名氏的律师托马斯·吉弗拉 (Thomas Giuffra)。 在 BBC 美国合作伙伴哥伦比亚广播公司 (CBS) 周一获得的一份声明中，他说：“在袭击发生后的几天里，[无名氏]受到了创伤、麻木，无法正常生活，也无法接受所发生事件的恐怖。 她处于自我保护模式。”
Giuffra said Jane Doe never spoke to anyone other than the officer who took her initial complaint, adding: "I would have expected at the very least that she would have been interviewed several times and evidence collected by law enforcement and a case developed. This is the normal sequence for serious crime investigations."
朱夫拉说，除了接受她最初投诉的警官之外，无名氏从未与任何人说过话，并补充道：“我至少预计她会接受多次询问，执法部门会收集证据并立案。 这是严重犯罪调查的正常顺序。”
"The defensive posture I have gleaned from the DA's statements leads me to believe that they recognise that there were failures and they are trying to excuse them," he said.
他说：“我从地方检察官的声明中收集到的防御姿态让我相信他们认识到了失败，并试图为这些失败找借口。”
Jane Doe also alleged in her civil lawsuit that Cornell did not protect her nor adequately punish the men involved, alleging they were "afforded the opportunity to mitigate their conduct by submitting essays".
简·多伊还在民事诉讼中声称，康奈尔大学没有保护她，也没有充分惩罚涉案男子，称他们“有机会通过提交论文来减轻自己的行为”。
Jane Doe suffered "severe emotional and psychological distress and personal physical injury" due to the incident and the university's handling, the suit states, adding that news of the incident quickly circulated through the school.
诉讼称，由于该事件和学校的处理方式，无名氏遭受了“严重的情感和心理困扰以及个人身体伤害”，并补充说该事件的消息很快在学校传开。
In November 2024, Cornell University issued a public statement regarding the "serious and deeply disturbing allegations of drug abuse and sexual violence at the Chi Phi fraternity house", saying its campus police department was investigating and that it had suspended the local chapter of the Chi Phi fraternity, as well as "a number of students."
2024 年 11 月，康奈尔大学就“奇皮兄弟会发生的严重且令人深感不安的药物滥用和性暴力指控”发表公开声明，称校园警察局正在进行调查，并已暂停了奇皮兄弟会当地分会以及“一些学生”的资格。
Cornell also said it had opened an internal investigation as well as a civil rights inquiry under the Title IX law - which bars sex discrimination in schools that receive funding from the federal government, including most universities.
康奈尔大学还表示，已根据《第九条》法律展开内部调查和民权调查，该法律禁止在接受联邦政府资助的学校（包括大多数大学）中存在性别歧视。
On Monday, the university disputed Jane Doe's allegation that it did not adequately investigate or punish the alleged perpetrators.
周一，该大学对无名氏的指控提出异议，称其没有充分调查或惩罚涉嫌肇事者。
The university said in a statement that the matter was referred to a "panel of trained faculty and staff" that issued "a range of sanctions, which included expulsions and suspensions from Cornell".
该大学在一份声明中表示，此事已提交给“训练有素的教职员工小组”，该小组发布了“一系列制裁措施，其中包括康奈尔大学开除和停职”。
"None of the individuals charged were offered the opportunity to write essays as a sole consequence of their involvement," Cornell said.
康奈尔说：“所有被指控的人都没有因为参与而获得写论文的机会。”
Jeremy Saland, an attorney for one of the men named in the lawsuit, denied the allegations.
诉讼中提到的其中一名男子的律师杰里米·萨兰德否认了这些指控。
Saland acknowledged his client "responded to and made an immature comment on Snapchat", but "did nothing else." Saland denied his client "was involved in no sexual activity nor touched the plaintiff in any way and ingested no ketamine".
萨兰承认他的客户“对 Snapchat 做出了回应并发表了不成熟的评论”，但“没有采取其他行动”。 萨兰否认他的当事人“没有参与性活动，也没有以任何方式接触原告，也没有摄入氯胺酮”。
The case has received national attention following Doe's lawsuit and the announcement the case would be reopened. Several celebrities, including actress Florence Pugh, have spoken out about it.
在美国能源部提起诉讼并宣布该案将重新审理后，该案引起了全国关注。 包括女演员弗洛伦斯·普 (Florence Pugh) 在内的几位名人都曾公开谈论过此事。
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