Make New York Post a Preferred Source A “Cornell 7” frat bro accused in the alleged gang-rape of a young woman claimed to campus cops that he was too wasted to consent to sex with her — suggesting he was the real victim, according to records.
Matthew Ingalls — one of the seven Chi Phi fraternity brothers at the center of the Ivy League institution’s explosive rape case — told Cornell University police that he was the one too intoxicated from booze and ketamine to consent to sex that fateful 2024 night, records obtained by ABC News showed.
Ingalls suggested that the alleged victim — a then-20-year-old student only identified as Jane Doe in court papers — was the one who therefore assaulted him during the debauched and drunken night and not the other way around, as she has claimed.
The Chi Phi Fraternity House is seen on the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, N.Y., on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026. Cornell has been the center of a growing scandal regarding sexual assault that was underreported at the Chi Phi Fraternity house in 2024. Lone Pine Press for NY Post A screenshot of the “Chi Phi Actives” Snapchat group is pictured on Oct. 20, 2024. A lawsuit alleges Cornell fraternity members were offered “essay” mitigation after an alleged gang rape. Obtained by NY Post Ingalls has previously been identified as the frat brother who told his friends through a fraternity group chat to “come whip it out” after another had announced there was “free p—sy” to be had in the house, referring to the accuser.
“Like you can walk in and whip it out,” he wrote in the chat, which had nearly 60 people in it. “Boys come whip it out.”
Ingalls was the brother who first invited Doe over to the house and propositioned her for a threesome that allegedly devolved into various brothers coming into the room to take turns having sex with her.
They allegedly plied her with booze and ketamine during the encounter, which she later claimed incapacitated her to the point that she couldn’t consent to anything.
Ingalls allegedly fell asleep at one point during the sexual encounter – prompting another brother to reportedly take his place – before he woke again later and rejoined the sex, documents released by the Tompkins County District Attorney’s Office showed.
Neither Ingalls nor any of the other six young men have been criminally charged, with the local DA saying he previously did not see enough evidence to warrant a case.
That changed when the woman filed a civil suit last month. Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten said he was reopening a probe into the case based on what he called new details in her lawsuit.
