An alleged gang rape at Cornell University was initially dismissed by the Police as lacking a ‘criminal’ element.

But those original accusations have now become front page news.

That’s partly because a former South Park writer has taken up the cause — vigilante style.

The unnamed former student who claims she was raped in a Cornell frat house is still known only by the anonymous ‘Jane Doe’ moniker.

Toby Morton of South Park fame, on the other hand, is intentionally catching the spotlight on her behalf following the recent reopening of the case.

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Before we get to Morton’s straight up vigilante approach…

Here’s what the District Attorney for the New York district is saying about his own change of heart in reexamining the case, according to this from ABC News:

Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the investigation of an alleged “gang rape” at a Cornell University fraternity in 2024 after a civil lawsuit filed earlier this month sparked outrage about the incident.

Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten said in a statement that his office is considering whether to bring criminal charges related to the incident, though he said the allegations in the civil complaint are “dramatically different” than the woman’s statement to police two years ago.

“It’s our intention to present the case to the Tompkins County grand jury with Jane Doe’s cooperation,” Van Houten told ABC News. “We want to reexamine whether there’s additional evidence that we were not aware of in November of 2024, that exists now that would change our assessment of the case and would result in the grand jury finding that there was criminal conduct.”

The reopening of the case comes less than two weeks after a former Cornell student filed a civil lawsuit alleging that she was drugged, assaulted and gang raped by seven former and current members of the Chi Phi fraternity at Cornell.

Van Houten said his office did not bring charges in 2024 because the woman’s statement to authorities did not allege she was drugged without her knowledge or that she did not consent to engage in sexual activities.

Thomas P. Giuffra, attorney for Jane Doe, the alleged victim, disputed Van Houten’s description of the woman’s initial statement to the Cornell University Police Department and faulted authorities for never following up with his client.

“In my experience, speaking with an abuse survivor requires delicacy, understanding and specialized training. An average University Police officer would not have these skills. It would be the role of a specially trained detective or district attorney. However, Ms. Doe was never contacted by anybody with those skills,” he said.

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It wasn’t until ‘Jane Doe’ filed a civil suit on her own that the District Attorney’s office decided to reexamine her original accusations from 2024.

Meanwhile, Toby Morton has opened his own very public ‘case’ against those named in the accusations.

And that came in the form of a website he says is specifically purposed with exposing the frat brothers for their alleged crimes.

Morton is clear that he is also going after those, whom he says, covered up those alleged crimes.

Morton dropped an Instagram post two days ago that featured a variety of black slides with starkly contrasted white text.

This may be the most ominous slide from his post:

Here’s the full warning text of that particular slide as he posted to Instagram, in case the screenshot isn’t clearly legible:

I’ve Received Messages
Reminding Me I’m Not A Journalist
I’m “Just A Satirist.”

This Is True
But This Makes Me More Dangerous

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I Have No Limits
No Boundaries
Nobody To Tell Me I’ve Gone Too Far

Here you can check out the actual Instagram post in which Morton outlines what he is all about with his ‘Cornell 7’ website:

 

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Morton also notes in the Instagram post that he plans to buy billboard space for Ads in order to make their alleged crimes publicly known.

He also says he’ll be going after Cornell employees he claims gave the 7 frat brothers a ‘break’ in relation to their alleged crimes, as covered by the New York Post:

Satirist Toby Morton, who wrote five episodes of the hit Comedy Central show between 2001 and 2003, addressed the seven frat brothers who allegedly drugged and raped a 20-year-old woman at their house in Ithaca, New York, in October 2024, in an Instagram post on Sunday.

“Hello, Matthew Ingalls, Johnathan Newell, Winston Lee, Gillio Lopes, Diego Sarabia, Scott Norris, Scott Kretzschmar,” the post begins, before Morton reveals he has created a website called “TheCornell7.org” to document their alleged crimes.

“I not only own variations of your domain names, but I now have photos,” Morton wrote. “I’m now slowly finding out where you work.”

Morton also warned that he is going after “those employed at Cornell who gave you a break, and I’m coming for them too.”

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“I’ve received messages reminding me I’m not a journalist, I’m ‘just a satirist,’” he wrote.

“This is true. But this makes me more dangerous. I have no limits. No boundaries. Nobody to tell me I’ve gone too far.”

It isn’t the first time the writer has purchased a domain name and created a website as a form of activism. He owns about 50 domain names, according to the Washington Post, including websites mocking Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, Sen. Chuck Schumer and President Trump.

The seven fraternity members, none of whom have been criminally charged, were given temporary suspensions and “were afforded the opportunity to mitigate their conduct by submitting essays” to the university, the complaint states.

Cornell has denied the claim.

“Any suggestion that the university did not impose consequential punishments for those involved is false,” the Ivy League institution said in a statement.

The controversy surrounding the original allegations and the more recent civil suit have been stirred up by Morton’s vigilante mission.

But even AOC, just a few hours ago, brought up the case at a politically focused university action event known as “More Perfect University“.

Here’s that clip as shared by the ‘More Perfect University’ X account:

You can watch the full screen version of that video here, for convenience:

While AOC alluded to the accusations, here is a brief overview of Jane Doe’s account to get a better idea of the backstory, as was included in this report from The Daily Mail:

The former student, identified only as Jane Doe, filed a civil lawsuit earlier this month detailing the alleged attack at the chapter’s fraternity house.

Doe, who was 20 at the time, alleges in her complaint she was plied with alcohol, pressured to take ketamine and repeatedly sexually assaulted as she became increasingly incapacitated.

The lawsuit claims that during the alleged ordeal one fraternity member sent a message to Chi Phi’s active-members Snapchat group telling others there was ‘free p***y’ upstairs, referring to Doe.

More fraternity members then entered the room, the complaint alleges. Doe claims she was repeatedly assaulted until around 5.45am, when she lost consciousness.

Van Houten said his office did not conduct a parallel independent investigation in 2024, but instead reviewed Doe’s statement at the request of Cornell University Police to determine whether her allegations constituted a crime.

He added that a screenshot of the ‘free p***y’ Snapchat message chain shared in Doe’s lawsuit was never provided to his office.

The sudden exposure of the case following Morton’s unilateral declaration of war on the seven alleged gang rapists is only just starting to reverberate across the internet.

And as the satirist receives pushback, it only seems to set him even more ablaze for the cause he has made his own.

In a subsequent Instagram post earlier today, Morton shared a series of messages from people arguing for him to stop.

Morton was having none of that, as you can see in that post:

 

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A post shared by Toby Morton (@wordclown)

Morton also sarcastically asserted that all the negative ‘troll messages’ he has received on the issue were from men, in the text of his Instagram post:

Oh look. 100% of the troll messages so far are from men. What an absolutely unforeseen statistical development.

I have plenty more from the Department of Unsolicited Male Investigations, but for now, back to work.

Website continues. Billboards are being planned. Updated website with much info tomorrow (Tuesday) night

As it stands, the allegations against the seven frat members remain unsubstantiated pending a true investigation.

The high-profile voices beginning to jump into the public fray on this issue are starting to rise in volume and frequency:

And Toby Morton is showing no signs of holding back when it comes to publicly outing, shaming, and convicting the alleged gang rapists in the public square of the internet.

Are they guilty?  Is ‘Jane Doe’ telling the truth?

That remains to be seen.

It may be a brave new world, folks.  But like the Bible says, there really isn’t anything new under the sun.

Somehow, every single part of this story seems to be familiar to me; as if I’ve heard it all before.

Headline coverage of alleged sexual crimes, a pending election cycle, the police characterized as Elmer Fudd (or worse), and all the soundbites a politician could hope for.

I’m not at all minimizing the accusations or the seriousness of what may turn out to be a horrible and completely true criminal act, completely as the alleged victim has claimed.

But, even the specific emphasis on ‘men’ in general as being the problem — haven’t we watched this movie before?

How this all shapes up is anyone’s guess, until the District Attorney in the case finishes his investigation.

However, as Mark Twain is often quoted as having said: “History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”

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