Kathy Hochul: “This young woman had already endured something that is utterly unspeakable, and then at every turn she was failed by…”

The decision by Matthew Van Houten, the Tompkins county district attorney, not to prosecute the 2024 case, and the questions raised in recent days over the Cornell police department’s investigation of the allegations, have undercut my…

I am deeply disturbed by how Cornell University police and the Tompkins County district attorney’s office handled allegations of a 2024 sexual assault at the university.

If someone is too intoxicated to consent, it should not matter whether they chose to use drugs or alcohol. Voluntary intoxication is not a license for sexual assault or gang-rape. Period.

Every parent who sends their child off to college expects them to be safe, and if something terrible happens, the student deserves to know that the people they turn to will listen to them, protect them, and fight for them. That is the bare…