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Stanford Rapist Brock Turner's Victim Goes Public To Tell Her Story!

Brock Turner Rape Victim Statement Chanel Miller

For years now Brock Turner has been the face of rich, white, male privilege — in one case literally as his mugshot was used as the illustration in a legal textbook definition for “rape.”

The former Stanford University swimmer was arrested and charged with sexual assault after two passersby witnessed him assaulting an unconscious woman and intervened to protect her.

Turner was found guilty of felony sexual assault but in a shocking slap in the blind face of Lady Justice was given a ludicrously light sentence of just six months — and he only served three months of that!

Related: Turner Told Court His Life Was ‘Shattered’

Obviously the rapist became infamous overnight, but his victim understandably chose to remain anonymous.

Known only as Emily Doe since the 2016 court case, the then 22-year-old writer and artist nevertheless became a voice in the forefront of the minds of women that year with her incredibly powerful victim impact statement, writing:

“I thought there’s no way this is going to trial; there were witnesses, there was dirt in my body, he ran but was caught. He’s going to settle, formally apologize, and we will both move on. Instead, I was told he hired a powerful attorney, expert witnesses, private investigators who were going to try and find details about my personal life to use against me, find loopholes in my story to invalidate me and my sister, in order to show that this sexual assault was in fact a misunderstanding. That he was going to go to any length to convince the world he had simply been confused.

I was not only told that I was assaulted, I was told that because I couldn’t remember, I technically could not prove it was unwanted. And that distorted me, damaged me, almost broke me.”

Eighteen female Congresswomen read the statement on the floor of the House of Representatives. It was one of the sparks which ignited the #MeToo movement.

Now Emily is bravely going public with a new memoir about her experience, bound to be as striking — and as triggering — as what she wrote to the court.

Related: She Later Wrote Another Essay After Being Named Glamour’s Woman Of The Year

Doe’s book, Know My Name, will indeed have her real name on the cover. So she’s sharing it now.

It’s Chanel Miller.

Before the release of the book on September 24, Chanel will give a full interview on 60 Minutes, no alias, no silhouette. She’s ready to put her face, her name, everything out there.

The full interview is scheduled for Sunday, September 22, but before that they’re offering something special.

Hear Chanel’s powerful victim impact statement in full, for the first time in her own voice (below):

[Image via 60 Minutes/YouTube/Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office.]

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Sep 04, 2019 13:58pm PDT