A video circulating online is being shared as purported footage of the redheaded woman at the center of the Cornell Chi Phi allegations, whose real name is allegedly Lucy Craig, known in court papers only as Jane Doe, while the district attorney’s account of her own sworn statement describes a drug-fueled night she called voluntary and consensual.
The clip, which has drawn millions of views, shows a tall woman with long red hair talking in a bathroom, standing in plaid shorts beside a cat, then moving awkwardly around street scaffolding. It closes with the text “Cankle Queen.” Posters have labeled her the accuser; her identity has not been officially confirmed, and she has proceeded in the civil case under the pseudonym Jane Doe.
That online attention coincides with Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten’s public explanation of why no charges were filed in November 2024. Jane Doe’s six-page sworn statement to Cornell police — reviewed by her and marked with more than 20 handwritten corrections before she signed it under penalty of perjury- “described her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious, and consensual,” Van Houten said. The statement did not allege she was drugged against her will or gang-raped.
According to the DA’s summary, the then-20-year-old walked to the Chi Phi house to meet a friend, agreed to a threesome out of attraction and “drunken curiousness,” and recalled being “excited” when she learned a second man would join. She engaged in oral and vaginal sex. When she later said she was tired and wanted to stop, the activity stopped. She did not claim she was unconscious, physically forced, or given drugs without her knowledge. Multiple prosecutors concluded the account, taken as true, did not establish a crime under New York law.
Text messages obtained by CBS News, exchanged two days later between Jane Doe and one of the men later named in her lawsuit, show her writing that “none of the sexual stuff was illegal” and suggesting they meet again without “the extra 5 billion men and ketamine.” Her attorney has said she was in denial at the time.
Crude Snapchat messages among fraternity members, including one referencing “free p***y,” were “disgusting and vulgar,” Van Houten acknowledged, but he said they did not change the consent analysis drawn from Jane Doe’s own statement. Nearly two years later she filed a civil lawsuit alleging she was incapacitated by alcohol, marijuana, and ketamine and assaulted by seven men, Matthew Ingalls, Johnathan Newell, Winston Lee, Gillio Lopes, Diego Sarabia, Scott Norris, and Scott Kretzschmar.
The complaint prompted public outcry and a reopened criminal investigation now under a special prosecutor.No one has been charged. The men have denied wrongdoing. Cornell expelled two and suspended others after its Title IX process. The discrepancy between the detailed statement Jane Doe signed in 2024 and the allegations in her 2026 lawsuit remains the core dispute.
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