The woman whose statement at the trial of a former college swimmer highlighted sexual assaults on US campuses has identified herself.
Chanel Miller was known by the pseudonym Emily Doe at the trial of Brock Turner, who was sentenced to six months in county jail for the assault. The sentence caused widespread anger given that Turner could have been jailed for up to 14 years for the crime. Many believed Turner had been given a lenient sentence because he was a white athlete from a prominent university, Stanford. Turner repeatedly claimed alcohol was to blame and that the encounter was consensual, while his father called the attack “20 minutes of action”.
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Miller is now releasing a memoir, Know My Name, which her publisher says will “change the way we think about sexual assault forever”. Miller’s 7,000-word statement at the trial garnered millions of views around the world when it was published online in 2016. She will also appear on CBS’s 60 Minutes later this month and extracts from the interview, including Miller reading the statement, have been released this week.
Source: Stanford sexual assault survivor identifies herself before release of memoir
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