In the days after, girls approached Chessy and told her that Labrie had done the same thing to them.Ī dorm adviser overheard Chessy sobbing in her room, and instructed her to call me. Chessy initially didn’t have the language to describe what happened to her as assault, nor did she understand it was against the law. Like most victims, Chessy struggled with guilt, shame, and blame. In spite of progress we have made with #MeToo and #IHaveTheRightTo, it appears that rape culture and its playbook are still very much alive in our culture. Paul’s School, a prep school in New Hampshire, when senior Owen Labrie sexually assaulted her in a locked mechanical room in 2014. I have the right to say no,''' Prout said.As the parent of a child who reported her sexual assault at age 15, I am disgusted by the response to the sexual assault allegations brought forward by Christine Blasey Ford about Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. "I want other people to feel empowered and just strong enough to be able to say, 'I have the right to my body. Prout said she now plans to advocate for and support other sexual assault survivors. Because if he doesn't learn, he will do it to another young woman." And that's all I can ever hope for in any sort of process like this. Prout said she doesn't think of Labrie or of what might happen to him. "But if they're going to treat this topic as a joke, this is not a place I want to be." "I tried my best to go back to my school and try to have a normal life again," she said. Paul's - tried going back to the school but said she was taunted by her classmates, so she ultimately withdrew. Prout - whose father and older sister graduated from St. It was reported yesterday that the family is no longer seeking anonymity in the case.
Paul's School filed a request that the victim's identity be released as part of a civil lawsuit the Prout family filed against the school. Prout broke her silence two weeks after lawyers for St. "We had been prepared to finish this and just move forward with our lives and let them move forward with their lives, but, you know what, in the pursuit of justice I would've done anything." "We had been prepared to just receive an apology letter,'' she said. Prout, who testified for three days during the high-profile trial, said it was a difficult thing to do and it could have been avoided. He was re- released on bail again in May. In March 2016, a judge revoked Labrie's bail for failing to adhere to his curfew. Labrie was sentenced in October 2015 to a year in jail and is currently out on bail pending an appeal. "And the fact that he was still able to pull the wool over a group of people's eyes bothered me a lot and just disgusted me in some way." "They said that they didn't believe that he did it knowingly, and that frustrated me a lot because he definitely did do it knowingly,'' Prout told Savannah Guthrie. He was found guilty of misdemeanor sexual assault but acquitted of the three felony sexual assault charges that he also faced. Paul's School in May 2014 and sexually assaulting her. Labrie was convicted last year of luring Chessy Prout - then 15 years old and under the age of consent - to the top of a math and science building at St. The teenage sexual assault victim of elite New Hampshire prep school student Owen Labrie spoke out for the first time Tuesday, telling NBC's Today show, "I feel ready to stand up and own what happened to me."
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