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What do we know about Emily Doe? We know that she was sexually attacked by Brock Turner outside of a frat party at Stanford University , California, one evening in January 2015. She was unconscious and partially dressed, in the vicinity of a garbage container.

He would have to have a six-month period, for sexually assaulting a drunken victim, sexually assaulting an unconscious victim and tried to rape her.

He would serve three months On Probation for three years, ends this month. Judge Aaron Persky , the removed later, from his post, citing Turner, of good character and the fact that he had been drinking.

much of the reporting at the Time also focused on the fact Turner was a good swimmer.

What do we know about the Chanel Miller ? Maybe you don't know much, yet. If you have read The Victim impact statement, you mentioned Turner, which went viral, to protect When she was still known as Emily Doe, to preserve your anonymity, you know, she is brave and articulate.

Here's what you should know about Chanel .

she is a literature, the school-leaving examination, who has now written a book, Know My name. She is a talented artist and would love to illustrate children's books, your drawings a little surreal, and - by their own description - scary. She has also studied ceramics and comic books, and done stand-up comedy.

she loves dogs. She describes herself as shy. She is half-Chinese, her Chinese name is sound, Zhang Xiao Xia (with Xia as "sha", The First syllable of Chanel ). She smiles slightly, thoughtful and funny. She is someone's daughter, sister, friend. You could be someone you know.

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Chanel memoirs edges with the fury of their agony may find distressing. But why write it, if it meant once again sorry, reading the Court records and witness statements had - until then - held by her?

she says she felt a duty, the light on The Darkness that so many Young Women have to go through.

"I have days where it is extremely difficult to get up in The Morning ," says Chanel , 27, speaks in her home town of San Francisco . "I have days where I really could not imagine a single way forward. And so weigh-in Time .

"And it was terrible. I would not draw anything, I wouldn't write anything. All you have to do what I want to do is sleep, so that I would not be aware of. This is no way To Live .

"I think that other Young Women have to go through this and you will see them pull back and crumble and fall away from the things you love. And I just think - how, how do we make that happen?" to articulate

your voice and clear, But it resonates with emotion and quietly rage at the injustice that this is happening to other women around The World . An endless parade of other people who know what it is, Emily Müller.

"Here's this young, talented Young Women , to give the excited for their future, the have so many things to offer. And something like this happens," says Chanel . "And you Go Home , and you will bear the reproach, and you swallow it and it eats you from The Inside .

"And you think," everything would be better if I just holed up in my room', 'perhaps it would be better if I talk to'. "Maybe, I don't deserve to be loved or caressed gently'.

"It is so sick that we let this happen. We let these negative notions to digest by themselves. And let them be isolated. Instead of trying to earn here again and say, no, you live a full life. You deserve an amazing future. "

Chanel was not a student at the Time she had already completed. To go to her younger sister Tiffany was Back Home on the weekends and had asked if she wanted to, together at a party with her.

But their story extends The Conversation about campus rape-and she wants to see changes to the Stanford University , specifically, how the fact, forensic audits may not be given the Stanford hospital, with victims, traveling 40 miles.

"you get an Uber for 40 Minutes with A Stranger , while they are still in the clothing that attacked you were? You do your text to a friend who has a car and pass it on?"

Many of the women came forward after reading Chanel 's victim impact statement, encouraged to say, to tell their own Stories - in some cases for the First Time .

RAINN - The Rape , abuse and incest national network, the largest anti-sexual violence organization in the United States - the figure. All of 92 seconds, an American is sexually assaulted. Of 1000 sexual assault, 995 offender is on the loose.

think of how many women you pass every day. You think about one in every six.

"We always say, like, oh, why didn't she come forward? Why didn't you log in?", Chanel says.

"Because there is no system for her report. Why should you Have Faith in to Take Care of you, if she comes forward? We need to do more to help survivors After This happened. "

When Turner was convicted, The Crime was not described as rape, But The Law in California has changed as a result of Chanel to be the case.

There is now a mandatory three-year minimum prison sentence for the penetration of an unconscious person or a person drunk, Chanel lawyer Alaleh Kianerci explained. Another piece of legislation was written to expand the definition of rape to include any kind of penetration ("The trauma Experienced by the survivors will not be measured, what exactly is it you persisted in you without your consent", in its support of the draft law).

had she felt so beaten down by the Court ("I felt humiliated and empty all the Time ," she says), and the shock of the Turner's phrase, that When her lawyer asked her permission to free her victim impact statement, she said only: "sure, if you think it would be helpful". She thought it would end up on a forum in the community or in the local newspaper-Website - ever, the impact it would have.

came to your statement, got was sent to 11 million views in four days, and Chanel , hundreds and hundreds of letters and gifts from all over The World .

you read it all, you say "taught me to be friendly to me, has taught me who I was to you", and added: "I learned to see myself through you. "

- Joe Biden , the Vice President, they say: "have you given them to fight the power, you need to. And Yes, I believe you will save Lives . "

As it was anonymous, it was common for friends to forward The Statement to you, not aware you had posted it. Chanel therapist did not know that she had been sexually harassed, But knew her identity as Emily Doe for months, she asks: "Have you read that the victims of Stanford statement?"

the courts hear cases, as in the case of Chanel ' s all the Time - it is only The Names , the places, The Details change. So What has your story, your pain with the vibrations, so far?

"not afraid, Perhaps, from the darkest," Chanel says. "I think it almost feels like a relief, When someone recognizes your darkness, because you hide the feeling, it's this ugly, dirty thing that you need to.

"If you show it, people are going to cringe and back away. I was able to communicate all of these difficult feelings and open about them, and place them, and not be ashamed for the one that you Experienced . "

has been through the courts, Chanel said she felt she had to report to a responsibility to show others how it is.

"I know that for me, I had so many, quote unquote, the benefits," she says. "I had carried out my rape kit, a sexual assault forensic evidence kit]. I have the support of police officers and nurses. I had a lawyer who was assigned to me, I was a Prosecutor, I had all of the things that you actually have.

"And I found it But still so unbearably difficult and emotionally damaging, and go through it. I thought, 'if this is what it looks like to be well prepared in these will go, how the hell is anyone else to Survive This process?'.

"I thought I would have had a duty to write about what it's like inside the windowless walls of a courtroom, what is the inner landscape, to sit as it is, and are attacked with this pointless Interrogation . "

writes the book, you also allowed access to the Court files and thousands of pages of transcripts, she had not been present.

During the enlightenment, he was also deeply painful, to know what was not only one of the Court - But your family and friends and seen.

"It was extremely difficult. I put it on for a really long Time . Finally, I thought, well, I have to look into it.

"I would stop talking to read about Brock and the defense, play games, take off my underwear, put his Finger in...", before adding: "It was so graphic and choking, read about me verbally undressed again.

"And imagine it happening in a courtroom at all just listening and nobody is doing anything. I could not tolerate. "

"There is a lot of power is able to craft The Narrative again"

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Source of news: bbc.com