The woman at the center of the Brock Turner rape case has revealed her identity.
Chanel Miller, a San Francisco-based writer, is sharing her survivor story after years of anonymity under the pseudonym Emily Doe. Miller will speak about the case in an upcoming interview on 60 Minutes, which will air Sept. 22—just two days before she releases her memoir, aptly titled Know My Name.
60 Minutes released a clip from the upcoming episode where Miller recites a portion of the 7,000-word victim statement she read in court back in 2016.
"You don’t know me, but you’ve been inside me, and that’s why we’re here today," she says in the clip. "... I am no stranger to suffering. You made me a victim. In newspapers my name was 'unconscious intoxicated woman' 10 syllables, and nothing more than that. For a while, I believed that that was all I was. I had to force myself to relearn my real name, my identity. To relearn that this is not all that I am. That I am not just a drunk victim at a frat party found behind a dumpster, while you are the All-American swimmer at a top university, innocent until proven guilty, with so much at stake. I am a human being who has been irreversibly hurt, my life was put on hold for over a year, waiting to figure out if I was worth something ..."
Miller was 22 years old when she was raped by Turner at a fraternity party in January 2015. Turner, a then-19-year-old Stanford swimmer, was ultimately convicted on three felony counts of sexual assault: assault with intent to commit rape of an intoxicated or unconscious person, penetrating an intoxicated person with a foreign object, and penetrating an unconscious person with a foreign object. Though Turner was facing up to 14 years behind bars, the judge sentenced him to only six months in jail; he ended up serving just half of that sentence before he was released in September 2016.
The ruling sparked national outrage, and resulted in the recall of the case's presiding judge, Aaron Persky.
Know My Name will detail Miller's struggles leading up, during, and after the case.
"It is one of the most important books that I’ve ever published," Andrea Schulz, editor in chief of Viking publishing, told the New York Times. "[The book could] change the culture that we live in and the assumptions we make about what survivors should be expected to go through to get justice."
