Make New York Post a Preferred Source The frat brother at the center of the “Cornell 7” gang-rape allegations claimed to campus officials that the accuser “sodomized” him — and complained nobody cared he was a sex-assault “survivor,” an explosive new report says.
Matthew Ingalls’ stunning assertions came as separate documents showed the fraternity scrambled to control the story out of fear that “the reputation of all involved and the frat would be ruined” — and tried to frame the alleged rape as a “consensual orgy,’’ ABC News reported.
Ingalls — the Chi Phi brother who the accuser said sparked her alleged 2024 gang rape — wrote to campus officials in a seething email that the Ivy League school was guilty of “gender discrimination” and “entrapment” as it conducted its investigation into him and six of his fraternity brothers over the alleged horror.
“You received information that I was sodomized by her while I was incapacitated back in November, and you never once thought to alert me of my rights under these procedures as a survivor of this assault?” Ingalls said in the February 2025 missive to Cornell’s Title IX office and obtained by ABC.
“The very fact that I had to bring this to your attention now in February confirms my worst fears: that this process is rolled [sic] with gender discrimination,” he said.
The email came three months after the woman, only identified as Jane Doe in her civil lawsuit involving the allegations, accused Ingalls of inviting her to his frat house and plying her with drugs and alcohol, then propositioning her for a three-way that quickly escalated into rounds of fraternity brothers stopping into the room to join in on the sex.
Doe insisted she was too intoxicated to consent and called the incident rape — something she also told Campus police in 2024, about three weeks after the alleged attack.
But Ingalls was also drinking and drugging heavily that night — with a 2024 statement from Doe describing how he kept falling asleep during the encounter before waking up to rejoin the alleged assault.
After Doe made rape claims against him, Ingalls tried to frame his own intoxication to suggest that he was the victim that night, Cornell investigative documents showed.
Despite those claims, his fraternity reportedly scrambled to control the narrative after Doe reported them to police — with an anonymous caller telling campus cops that Chi Phi leadership called a meeting to get everybody’s stories straight.
That story included calling the night with Doe a “consensual orgy,” according to ABC.
“Chi Phi held a meeting essentially to get all of the men on the same page about what happened,” a student told Cornell investigators. “I know for a fact there are group messages about the situation.”
The student, a female, added that the brothers were scared the night with Doe “would be bad for [their] image.”
But Chi Phi brothers interviewed by campus police insisted they weren’t too concerned about their alleged night with Doe — insisting it only came up during their casual weekly meeting.
“We didn’t have a meeting about it specifically,” a brother said. “It was our weekly chapter meeting. We got through a bunch of stuff.”
Messages between Ingalls and fraternity leadership suggested otherwise.
“When was the last time you spoke to [Doe]?” the Chi Phi president wrote to Ingalls at one point.
“Yesterday … what’s the plan of action,” Ingalls responded. “Should I call [her]? I don’t think she would have reported this.”
Ingalls was also one of the brothers accused of sending messages in a brotherhood-wide group chat inviting others to join the sex with Doe — allegedly telling his friends to “come whip it out” after another wrote there was “free p—y.”
But Doe claimed she was delirious with drugs by that point and that as brothers filed into the room for sex, she had become powerless to resist.
After she accused the brothers of rape, the local Tompkins County District Attorney’s Office declined to file charges — citing a statement she signed where she admitted to drinking and drugging willingly at the start of the night, which the DA said meant she was legally responsible for her decisions that followed.
Cornell, meanwhile, expelled Ingalls and another brother — who an internal investigation found responsible for sexual assault — while the other five accused in Doe’s lawsuit were suspended or faced other minor allegations.
All seven of the brothers have denied raping Doe, and none have been charged with any crimes.
But prosecutors are looking back into the case after the “free p—y” text messages were revealed in Doe’s suit.
