![]() Last month, the school denied it could have prevented the attack and made a legal request to reveal her identity if the lawsuit reaches trial. Pauls, who her family is suing for its lacklustre approach to the predatory school hook-up culture raging in the American school system, claiming senior boys at the school treat female students as “targets of desire”. She also turned the tables on the school at the centre of the scandal, St. I have the right to say no,’ Chessy told Today. Prout announced a new campaign to empower other survivors to speak out, and said she was disgusted by the split verdict that sent 18-year-old senior Owen Labrie to jail for a year. “I want other people to feel empowered, and just strong enough to say: ‘I have the right to my body. “I’m going to make sure that other people - other girls, other boys - know that they can own it, too, and that they don’t have to be ashamed, either. “I feel ready to stand up and own what happened to me,” Prout said in a nationally-televised interview on NBC’s Today show. “I didn’t say anything, I felt like I was frozen,” the jury would hear in tapes presented to court.īut now, after a public sledging by the school (which it denies) at the centre of the scandal and through strained tears, “the girl” has a name, and “the survivor” has a face, and a message.Ĭhessy Prout has found her voice - revealing her identity, and her side of the story for the first time. May.FOR more than two years, the teenage sexual assault victim in the case against prep school student Owen Labrie was only ever known as “the girl” or the “survivor”.ĭuring Labrie’s 2015 court trial, where the popular senior was accused of raping the freshman at an elite American prep school, her voice was disguised, muffled throughout her anonymous testimony. Jazz Owls: A Novel of the Zoot Suit Riots. Apr.įatal Throne: The Wives of Henry VIII Tell All. Were Native Americans the Victims of Genocide? By David M. Votes for Women! American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot. Underneath It All: A History of Women’s Underwear. The Ultimate Survival Guide to Being a Girl: On Love, Body Image, School, and Making It Through Life. Truth, Justice, and the American Way: The Joe Shuster Story. ![]() The Teen’s Guide to Debating and Public Speaking. StarTalk Young Readers Edition: Everything You Need to Know about Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond. Speak Up! Confronting Discrimination in Your Daily Life (series). The Space Race: How the Cold War Put Humans on the Moon. Next-Generation Medical Technology (series). I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor’s Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope. Hope Nation: YA Authors Share Personal Moments of Inspiration. ![]() Spring.Įconomic Inequality: The American Dream under Siege. Spring.Ĭourageous Women of the Vietnam War: Medics, Journalists, Survivors, and More. ![]() All titles will be published in the spring 2018 season.īeing Female in America (series). This announcement section offers Booklist readers a selected preview of especially notable new titles for young adult, middle-grade, and young readers. ![]()
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