Cornell Frat Bros Allegedly Gang-Raped Drugged Student, Messaged 'Free P***y'

2:40 PM PT -- Jeremy Saland, who represents Scott Kretzschmar, one of the defendants, tells TMZ ... "We wholeheartedly deny the allegations in the complaint ... we possess documents that thoroughly corroborate our position, including the plaintiff's own words, statements from other parties, and scientific evidence demonstrating that the claims against him are false."

Saland adds ... "Our system of justice allows anyone to make a complaint, criminal or otherwise, even a wrongful one. However, it is lost on no one that the criminal investigation led to no charges against Scott even if the plaintiff for some odd reason states she believed the investigation remains open nearly two years later. Simply, the evidence against him, or, more accurately, lack thereof, didn't even muster up to the nominal standard of probable cause because the allegations against him as described did not happen. Simply, there was absolutely no criminality on Scott's part. He is completely innocent. Period."

Seven members of Cornell's Chi Phi fraternity sexually assaulted a 20-year-old student after drugging her with ketamine ... and sent each other disturbing text messages to join in the gang rape ... at least according to a new lawsuit.

The suit, filed this week in Manhattan Supreme Court, alleges a Jane Doe under the age of 21 was served alcohol at a local bar before stumbling alone to the Chi Phi frat house to hang out with one of her sorority sisters.

Inside the Chi Phi frat house, she says frat brothers Matthew Ingalls and Johnathan Newell pressured her into snorting ketamine before beginning to sexually assault her.

The woman claims Newell invited other frat bros to join in on the alleged gang rape as she lay unconscious ... writing in a Snapchat group titled "Chi Phi Actives" that there was "free p***y" upstairs.

At one point, she claims Newell poured "a line of Ketamine onto his erect penis" and commanded her to snort it.

Eventually, she claims several men were "pouring lines of Ketamine all over her body and snorting them."

In the suit, the woman says she suffered "severe emotional and psychological distress" from the alleged October 2024 assault. She's suing the frat bros and the University, claiming Cornell failed to take reasonable steps to protect her.

In addition to Ingalls and Newell, the lawsuit also names Winston Lee, Gillio Lopes, Diego Sarabia, Scott Norris, and Scott Kretzschmar as defendants.