“I was alone, sitting at my desk, surrounded by co-workers, reading about how I was stripped and then penetrated and discarded in a bed of pine needles behind a dumpster. That’s how I figured out all of those elements ... And I finally understood”
Chanel Miller Photo: 60 Minutes Four years after she was sexually assaulted by Stanford University student Brock Turner, 27-year-old Chanel Miller, who was previously known as “Emily Doe,” is speaking up about the attack. Ahead of the September 24 release of her memoir, Know My Name, Miller was interviewed by 60 Minutes about the night of the assault, and the emotional trauma she endured as the case received international attention.
In the interview, Miller opened up about the terrible way she found out what happened to her the night of her assault: through an article that popped up in her newsfeed online. “I was alone, sitting at my desk, surrounded by co-workers, reading about how I was stripped and then penetrated and discarded in a bed of pine needles behind a dumpster,” she said. “And that’s how I figured out all of those elements. And they all added up. And I finally understood.
Miller, who had wanted to be a children’s author, also talked about the impact she felt her assault would have on her career. “I felt no parent is going to want me as a role model, if I’m just the discarded, drunk, half-naked body behind a dumpster. Nobody wants to be that,” she said. At the hearing in 2016, Turner was found guilty of three counts of felony sexual assault, but ended up walking away with a six-month sentence in county jail, of which he only served three. A positive thing to come out of the trial was the powerful victim-impact statement Miller was asked to read. Afterward, BuzzFeed published the statement and it quickly went viral, hitting 11 million views in just a few days.
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