Paul’s School, an elite boarding school that educated well connected figures like former Secretary of State John Kerry.
Now, she's back in the news because her family settled a lawsuit with the New Hampshire school where the assault took place, St. She started advocacy work with the nonprofit organization PAVE (Promoting Awareness Victim Empowerment). I have the right to say no,'" Prout told Today in an August 2016 interview. "I want other people to feel empowered and just strong enough to be able to say, 'I have the right to my body. And I want justice.Ī year after the trial, Prout decided to take a more active, and open, role in advocating for survivors of sexual assault. I don’t want to feel imprisoned for the rest of my life. At Labrie's sentencing hearing, Prout said: Without just and right punishment, I really don’t know how I’ll put one foot in front of the other. Prout accused him of trying to perform the "senior salute," in which an upperclassman has sex with a much younger classmate before graduation.
#CHESSY PROUT TRIAL#
He claimed during the trial that they had kissed and engaged in foreplay but not penetration.
In October 2015, Owen Labrie was convicted of three counts of misdemeanor statutory sexual assault, one count of endangering a child, and one class B felony for using a computer to seduce a minor. Prout, who initially remained anonymous, accused a fellow student of sexually assaulting her when she was just 15 and he was 18. After some members of Congress were driven out of office by past misconduct, lawmakers are bringing guests to the State of the Union that reflect the importance of the movement, and one of the SOTU guests is Chessy Prout, the young woman who went public about being sexually assaulted at an elite East Coast boarding school. And now politicians are taking a leaf out of their book. The #MeToo movement has been showing up on the red carpet this award season as celebrities dressed in black to bring awareness to the problems of sexual harassment and assault.
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