In a new twist regarding an embattled Ivy League school rocked by scandal, Cornell University allegedly overlooked reports of the same male student time after time sexually assaulting coeds in a profound alarming case that could implicate over 10 victims, says a newly disclosed lawsuit.
According to a story by the New York Post newspaper, then-Ivy League undergrad Esat Braveboy — who wrote for the school’s daily newspaper — was permitted to perpetrate “drug- enabled sexual assault, rape and to sodomize students” because Cornell ignored reports of his “egregious sexual misconduct against college students,” according to the Tompkins County suit filed in 2023 by two female undergrads.
The suit contends that regardless of the students filing Title IX complaints, Cornell “continued to allow Braveboy to commit sexual abuse against Plaintiffs and others.
“At least five-ten others have been sexually abused by Braveboy on campus and it is believed that many more were abused but have yet to come forward,” claimed the suit, first reported by New York Focus.
The Post’s story states that the defendant’s LinkedIn page says he left Cornell as an undergrad in December 2021 and completed his bachelor’s degree at St. Joseph’s University in Brooklyn. During his stint at Cornell, he penned stories for Daily Sun paper between September 2020 and December 2021, the page said.
The 2023 lawsuit survived early salvos from Braveboy and Cornell to get the case dismissed and is currently approaching extended discovery deadlines, set to enter the trial phase after March 2027.
The court documents declared that the school has had issues restraining sexual violence on its campus, long before the school was shaken by an appalling fraternity gang-rape lawsuit filed in September.
Cornell and Braveboy’s lawyer did not immediately respond to Post requests for comment. But both have denied the allegations in the court record for the 2023 lawsuit.
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