A Fox News legal contributor who once defended convicted movie mogul Harvey Weinstein said the woman accusing seven Cornell fraternity members of gang rape must take responsibility for her choices.
Donna Rotunno, who also hosts a Fox News crime podcast, made the remarks Monday on “Fox & Friends” after co-host Lawrence Jones raised the case.
The woman, identified in court papers as Jane Doe, alleges in a civil lawsuit that seven former Chi Phi fraternity members drugged and sexually assaulted her in October 2024, Fox News reported. No one has been criminally charged.
“You know, I want to be sensitive to Jane Doe, but we know the identities of these males now. At some point, we have to hear from Jane Doe,” Jones said. “That’s the only way this is fair and proper. Some of these guys have already lost their jobs without due process.”
“These are young kids on a college campus making decisions. Decisions to drink, decisions to engage in debaucherous behavior, and there are consequences to that,” Rotunno replied. “That does not mean that those consequences are one-sided.”
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