Stanford sex assault survivor named a Woman of the Year
Source: USA Today
A woman whose evocative and compelling message gave voice to sex assault victims everywhere was named one of Glamour magazine's 2016 Women of the Year on Tuesday.
"Emily Doe," the anonymous survivor of a savage assault by Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner in 2015, was recognized five months after she read a victim's impact statement in court. Doe's stirring words echoed across the globe in stark contrast to the pleas of the defendant's father in seeking a lighter sentence for his son.
“You don’t know me, but you’ve been inside me, and that’s why we’re here today,” Doe, 23, said as she addressed Turner in court earlier this year. “You took away my worth, my privacy, my energy, my time, my intimacy, my confidence, my own voice, until today.”
Doe's statement described in blunt and graphic terms the aftermath of her ordeal: how she stood naked in the hospital while nurses held a ruler to abrasions on her body, how she found out the details of her attack by reading a news story one day at work — an article that also listed Turner's swimming times. And it responded piece by piece to Turner's defendant statement.
Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/11/01/stanford-sex-assault-survivor-named-woman-year/93145144/
In dismissive language similar to Trump's dismissal of sexual assault as "locker room talk," the defendant's father, Dan Turner, successfully pleaded for leniency because jail time was “a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of his 20 plus years of life.”
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