![]() ![]() When she pressed charges, she says the response from her classmates was far from what she expected. Though Prout agreed to meet with him, Labrie took her to a secluded place where, she says, he sexually assaulted her. Paul's School in New Hampshire. She was approached by senior Owen Labrie, who invited her to take part in "senior salute," an unofficial school ritual where seniors hooked up with younger classmates before graduation. It all started in 2014, when Prout was a 15-year-old freshman at the elite St. She received rape and death threats, and pictures of her home, her address and her family - including her then-5-year-old sister - were posted online. So my name slipped through instead of being blocked out."įrom there, she said her name was written on the internet. "The defense attorney in my case used a tactic where he used my name as many times as he could during the trial. "I wasn't really given the luxury of staying anonymous for long," Prout said. She joined Greater Boston to discuss her new memoir, "I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor's Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope," alongside Jenn Abelson, her co-author and an investigative reporter for The Boston Globe. "I wanted to take back my name and my story," she told WGBH News. Now, Chessy Prout is speaking out about surviving sexual assault at the hands of a fellow student. When she was a teenager at the center of a rape trial that captured the nation, we didn't even know her name.
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