"I think this should be a lesson to them in how not to to behave," she said. "There is a new culture, a new era dawning." Paul's School and others should learn from Prout's story. With "the schools covering up, pushing out predators, giving them recommendations to other schools."Ībelson said that St. Many had suffered in silence for decades," she said. "It was more than 100 schools, more than 300 students, we found had been victims. Paul's, one of the nation's most elite boarding schools. Abelson, who has reported extensively on sexual assault for the Globe, says that cases of sexual assault are prevalent at private schools across the region. The case shined a national spotlight on a culture of sexual conquest at St. He was also convicted of luring a minor with a computer, forcing him to register as a sex offender. Ultimately, Labrie was arrested, charged, and after a months-long legal battle, convicted of misdemeanor sexual assault. Prout says the school should have known the nature of the unofficial ritual, because there was a "newspaper article that outlined what the senior salute was in the school's public paper." The school has no tradition that would ever allow or condone what happened to Chessy." It was never a tradition and was not about assault or coercion.
Paul's School said in a statement that "students understood senior salute to refer to a range of consensual behavior. "This was a crime that was committed, there was a verdict that happened, and it's really disappointing to see this kind of school response." "I think one of the hardest things for Chessy since this has come out is that the school has still refused to acknowledge what happened to her," she said. "I was pushed out because I stood up against their years and years-long tradition of the senior salute, and I stood up to one of the most influential students at campus at the time," she said.Ībelson said the school's handling of the case was just as painful. 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.
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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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