Standford student Brock Turner was convicted for sexually assaulting the woman, known as Emily Doe, in 2016.
A cyclist rides by a map of the Stanford University campus on March 12, 2019, in Stanford, California. Former standford student Brock Turner's sexual assault victim is slated to release a memoir in September 2019.Just a year before women-led movements like #MeToo and Time's Up became national campaigns advocating against sexual assault, abuse and harassment of women, former Standford University Brock Turner was convicted for a felony sexual assault of a woman on campus in 2016.
Now, more than four years since the lenient sentencing, the woman sexually assaulted by the former college swimmer will share her side of the story in full in a memoir. Viking Books, an imprint of under Penguin Publishing Group, announced plans for Doe to release a memoir in September.request for comment was unanswered at time of post.
"Emily Doe's experience illuminates a culture built to protect perpetrators and a criminal justice system designed to fail the most vulnerable. The book will introduce readers to the writers whose words have already changed their worlds and move them with its accounting of her courage and resilience," Schulz continued.
Turner's charges—assault with intent to commit rape of an intoxicated/unconscious person, penetration of an intoxicated person and penetration of an unconscious person—came with a maximum sentence up to 14 years, however, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky offered a sentence of just six months behind bars, sparking widespread outrage.
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