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University of Chicago second rape allegation

CHICAGO (CBS, KYMA) - This case is alleging rape at a fraternity party inside the Alpha Delta Phi House on the University of Chicago campus. Police have not charged anyone in this particular case, but the Jane Doe here is hoping the civil suit filed Wednesday will lead to criminal charges.

The Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, now the 2nd fraternity house at the University of Chicago under scrutiny for an alleged sexual assault at a party on their property.

A civil suit filed today by a woman known only as Jane Doe details the accusations in explicit detail.

"He offered her what she understood to be some kind of a shot. Encouraged her to drink it and then after she consumed it immediately started to feel that something was wrong."

Doe and her attorneys named the alleged attacker, a student at the university, Kevin Shim. Doe says Shim coerced her onto the 2nd floor into a bedroom despite her being unsteady and lightheaded.

"She increasingly started to lose awareness of what was going on."

The suit describes Doe as mentally and physically incapable of providing consent. Despite that, Doe says Shim refused to use contraception and raped her.

"Her friend realized that she was not with her at some point at the fraternity house and somehow found out that her friend was upstairs."

The lawsuit alleges other members of the fraternity blocked that friend from reaching Doe. The friend eventually got through.

"She found her friend unconscious in the bedroom where she was assaulted."

This case filed as Greek life faces scrutiny nationwide. Last week we told you about more allegations of sexual assault at the AE Pi house a few blocks away.

The suit coming out of Cornell University in New York propelled this Jane Doe to speak up.

Alpha Delta Phi tells us that they suspended the member from their fraternity after they learned about these allegations.

Police say they are still investigating, going through evidence, as well as likely the rape kit that Jane Doe completed the day after this alleged attack. We did try to reach Shim. No response from him.

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