Connecticut Cornell 7 defendant texted Jane Doe, hoped they'd 'laugh' about alleged assault: Report

On the night of Oct. 19, 2024, the woman now known as Jane Doe went to a Hawaiian-themed party at Cornell University's Chi Phi fraternity house.

In the weeks that followed, Doe, then a Cornell sophomore, exchanged dozens of text messages with several Chi Phi members she later would accuse in a lawsuit of participating in a drug-fueled sexual assault that night, The New York Times reported .

One of the men she spoke with was Bethel resident Diego Sarabia . Doe's lawsuit, filed in September, accuses him of kissing her without consent and snorting ketamine off her body, but not of rape.

In the text messages, Sarabia apologized for his role in the alleged assault and said he hoped they eventually could look back on it as "something to laugh about," according to the Times.

Sarabia's attorneys did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday.

The messages, obtained by the Times, were part of a collection of documents Cornell investigators put together during the university's Title IX inquiry into Doe's allegations. Following its investigation, Cornell imposed various punishments on the fraternity members, ranging from exp...