She was known as Emily Doe when her victim impact statement, read out in the sexual assault trial of Brock Turner, went viral.
Now, she has revealed her identity as 27-year-old Chanel Miller as she prepares to have her memoir published.
The case sparked controversy when Turner, then a Stanford University student, was sentenced to six months in jail. He served three.
Ms Miller’s book, Know My Name, is being released later this month.
Yes but swimmer. He’s a swimmer. That matters more than some mere woman.
In 2016, a jury would find Turner – then 20 – guilty of three charges: sexually assaulting an intoxicated victim, sexually assaulting an unconscious victim[,] and attempting to rape her. He was sentenced to six months and three years’ probation. Prosecutors had sought a six-year sentence.
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While writing Know My Name, published on 24 September by Viking, she found out further details of her own case, through court documents and witness statements she had not had access to during the trial.
The case happened before the #MeToo movement, but Ms Miller – who started writing her book in 2017 – added to her memoir and expanded its scope as the spotlight was shone on sexual violence.
I have to say, I don’t know why #MeToo is treated as some sort of Official Landmark of when we started taking sexual violence against women seriously. I was taking it seriously long before #MeToo, and so were millions of other women. I had plenty to say about Brock Turner at the time.
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Meanwhile, at the MRA troll factories:
“Ok, boys! Time to put away the ‘she gets to smear his reputation while hiding behind anonymity’ bots, and fire up the ‘she faked the whole thing to make money’ subroutines!”
That sentence was beyond ridiculous. At least with the internet nobody’s ever going to forget what Brock Turner did.
I look forward to her book.
I swam at Stanford almost 30 years ago. There were no men on the team who, to my knowledge, would do anything like that. I’ve been swimming ever since and so I have a lot of locker room experience. Young boys today (in particular 2005-today) are worse than they were before. Misogyny and, above all, entitlement are pervasive. Alcohol often puts them over the edge.
As Skeletor said, this book and the internet will put Brock Turner’s name where it belongs.
Skeletor, which sentence? Are you referring to Screechy’s “faked the whole thing…”? Because if so, yes, What Brock turner did is a matter of public record available on the internet. But, so what. There are scum out there who will never accept those facts or who will somehow justify him as being a victim because of slut drunk girl. Facts and decency have nothing to do with how some people behave or even perceive the world.
If you’re referring to some other sentence, I have no idea what.
Sentence in the sense of punishment – the sentence Brock Turner got. I kept reading it the other way too, even after I figured it out. English is a confusing language.
Du oh!
I’ve got a lot on my plate at the moment, alright.
Yes, that was clearly a travesty of justice.
Hey, never forget that Brock Turner missed out on a couple of steak barbecues with his dad. Talk about your cruel and unusual punishments!
Thank goodness he didn’t commit a serious crime, like being a black woman trying to vote in the wrong district.
Yeahbut his glorious future.
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Lisak estimated that something like 1-3% of his subjects were sexual psychopaths. The whole problem was that they passed unnoticed in the population. They felt some need to conceal and dissemble. Now we have several organized subcultures of MRAs-PUAs-rape apologists.
We will almost certainly hear more about Brock Turner in the future.
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Probably as a Supreme Court nominee.
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