Woman raped by Brock Turner speaks out for first time in powerful interview

WARNING – CONFRONTING CONTENT: The woman who was sexually assaulted by a former Stanford University swimmer has given a powerful interview weeks after she identified herself.

Chanel Miller was known only as ‘Emily Doe’ for years, but publicly came forward, waiving her anonymity to talk about her experience.

Brock Turner sexually assaulted Ms Miller when she was 22 and unconscious outside an on-campus fraternity house in California.

Ms Miller, now 27, was not a Stanford student, but she did live nearby.

She explained her sister was home for the weekend and they went to the party to spend time together.

Ms Miller recalls dancing at a fraternity party the night Turner sexually assaulted her. She admitted to drinking until she blacked out.

"Rape is not a punishment for getting drunk… you deserve a hangover, a really bad hangover, but you don't deserve to have somebody insert their body parts inside of you," Ms Miller said in the interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes.

The then 22-year-old woke up in hospital four hours later, surrounded by nurses and a police officer.

All that was said to Ms Miller when she woke up was she had been “found” behind a dumpster and somebody had been arrested.

She wouldn’t find out until much later when she saw an article at work with the words ‘Stanford’, ‘rape’ and ‘intoxicated, unconscious woman’.

Ms Miller described the moment as “surreal” when she had “the news broken to me by the internet”.

“I was alone, sitting at my desk, surrounded by co-workers, reading about how I was stripped and then penetrated and discarded in a bed of pine needles behind a dumpster,” she said during the interview.

That article reportedly named Brock Turner – that was the first time Ms Miller had heard his name.

Ms Miller also said she had been “in shock” about the prison time Turner ended up serving over her sexual assault.

The former Stanford swimmer was sentenced to six months in jail. He later walked free after three months due to good behaviour.

“So you're saying I just put aside a year and a half of my life so he could go to county jail for three months?” Ms Miller said.

“He's just been convicted of three felonies. And he's gonna serve one month for each felony. How can you explain that to me?”

Chanel Miller meets her rescuers

Carl-Fredrik Arndt and Peter Jonsson, two Swedish grad students, found Ms Miller unconscious by a dumpster, stopped Turner and chased him down.

During the interview, Ms Miller said it was as if the two knew what was happening and acted before they “could even think”.

Ms Miller finally met Mr Arndt and Mr Jonsson four years after they rescued her.

When asked what she said to the two grad students when she met them, Ms Miller said she kept thanking them.

Speaking to 60 Minutes, Mr Arndt and Mr Jonsson said they saw a couple on the ground, with one person on top, the other person not moving.

Mr Jonsson said he barely had time to think about what to do and took off after Turner.

‘We interrogate the victim’

During Turner’s sentencing, Ms Miller read a powerful victim statement, which went on to become a rallying cry for victims of sexual abuse.

"My independence, natural joy, gentleness, and steady lifestyle I had been enjoying became distorted beyond recognition. I became closed off, angry, self-deprecating, tired, irritable, empty," Ms Miller’s victim statement read.

Despite the attention and outrage, Turner was sentenced to just six months in jail after his conviction of felony sexual assault.

Ms Miller said she tried to remain in control of her emotions while Turner was on trial and when she was being questioned.

She said she answered every question she was asked.

When it came to talking about that night, the 27-year-old admitted she “sobbed” on the stand.

She said if she cried hard enough, she would be excused to go to the bathroom, which Ms Miller admits was her “favourite part” because she “finally got a break”.

“Instead of investigating the crime that’s at hand, we interrogate the victim and go after her character and pick her apart,” she said.

Many people were enraged when Turner was sentenced to six months in jail in 2016 after his conviction for felony sexual assault.

Following the trial he was forced to register as a sex offender and three judges rejected his appeal.

– With AP

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