Former South Park writer creates ‘Cornell 7’ website to expose alleged gang rapists, issues chilling warning: ‘Makes me more dangerous’
18 days ago by velma to c/wildfeed
A former South Park writer has created a website to expose the alleged Cornell gang rapists and those in the Ivy League institution who gave them “a break” – warning that “accountability is coming.”
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.”
“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.”
If they "investigated" and didn't do that more minimum that's insane.
original investigation into the alleged 2024 assault resulted in no criminal charges
I assumed they did some minimum level of investigation, that's on me :/
Jfc
The district attorney said the initial report Jane Doe made to university police differs significantly from the allegations in the lawsuit.
Nothing in Doe’s original statement indicated she was drugged without consent or had sex against her will, Van Houten said. According to the accuser’s statement, “each time Jane Doe asked to stop the sexual conduct, the sexual conduct stopped.”
“We can’t change what happened in the past as much as the community is outraged,” Van Houten said. “My job under the New York State Constitution is to apply the penal law of New York state. We are constrained by that law. Whether you agree with it, whether you think someone’s conduct is morally repugnant or vulgar or disgusting. I’m still constrained by the law.”
Van Houten acknowledged that the text message screen shots between the men “were completely vulgar and disgusting, but they had nothing to do with her consent.”
Tapper asked when Van Houten got copies of the text messages, included in the complaint, that the fraternity brothers sent each other.
Van Houten said that his team did not see the text messages evidence initially.
“They were not part of our initial analysis, but I understand that Cornell had them, and they sent them to our team,” he said.
Earlier, Doe’s attorney, Thomas P. Giuffra said in a statement he believes the initial investigation was inadequate.
“It is challenging for me to understand how a thorough criminal investigation could have been conducted when she never spoke with anyone other than the officer who took her original complaint,” Giuffra said.
“Other than her initial contact with Cornell police, she was not contacted by investigators from the Tompkins County District Attorney’s Office or any investigators trained in interviewing rape survivors,” Giuffra said.
“If the district attorney’s office is now considering prosecution, I believe that it is a step in the right direction, albeit a late one.”
The Ithaca Police Department said Monday that it was “disturbed” to hear about the 2024 allegations. The department noted it learned about the alleged incident only recently through the media and said the incident was not reported to the agency.
They tried to sweep all of it under the rug - the police, the DA office, and Cornell. They never fully investigated this case.
That's way more readable thank you
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Idiot DA is probably equating "I don't know what happened" with "nothing happened", while trying to get testimony from a victim.
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