Twenty-seven-year-old Chanel Miller has come forward to identify herself as the woman who accused Stanford University student-athlete Brock Turner, 24, of sexual assault in 2015.
Until this week, Miller was known only as “Emily Doe” as her case sparked nationwide debate over sexual misconduct.
As noted by The New York Times, Turner was found guilty of three counts of felony sexual assault. Facing up to 14 years behind bars, Judge Aaron Persky — who has since been recalled — sentenced the college student to six months in county jail.
Miller landed a book deal in 2017, according to the Times, and is set to release “Know My Name,” a memoir, at the end of the month.
After Miller’s impact statement went viral across the nation, Philippa Brophy, a literary agent who represents the accuser, contacted Andrea Schultz, editor-in-chief of publishing company Viking, to express interest in a book deal, the Times reported.
“I just remember being in my kitchen and reading this incredible, riveting piece of work,” said Schulz.
“I jumped out of my chair to acquire it because it was just obvious to me from the beginning what she had to say and how different it was and how extraordinarily well she was going to say it. She had the brain and the voice of a writer from the very beginning, even in that situation,” she said.
“It is one of the most important books that I’ve ever published,” Schultz added. The editor-in-chief noted that she hopes the memoir will “change the culture that we live in and the assumptions we make about what survivors should be expected to go through to get justice.”
Ms. Schulz declined to disclose how much money Miller banked for the deal.
As previously reported by The Daily Wire, Turner sexually assaulted Miller behind a dumpster on January 28, 2015. The Stanford athlete was convicted of “assault with intent to commit rape of an intoxicated woman, sexually penetrating an intoxicated person with a foreign object, and sexually penetrating an unconscious person with a foreign object,” according to The Guardian.
Due to intoxication, the details of the sexual misconduct were murky for Miller; she was found unconscious by police officers with three times the driving legal limit of alcohol in her bloodstream.
“Never mentioned me voicing consent, never mentioned us even speaking, a back rub,” Miller said during court testimony, according to New York Magazine. Turner claimed that Miller rubbing his back during the start of the sexual activity made him believe the activity was consensual. At some point, Miller presumably fell unconscious and Turner, who was also intoxicated, did not notice, he said.
“One more time, in public news, I learned that my ass and vagina were completely exposed outside, my breasts had been groped, fingers had been jabbed inside me along with pine needles and debris, my bare skin and head had been rubbing against the ground behind a dumpster, while an erect freshman was humping my half naked, unconscious body,” Miller’s testimony continued. “But I don’t remember, so how do I prove I didn’t like it.”
During the incident, Turner was spotted by two witnesses, Stanford graduate students Peter Jonsson and Carl Fredrik Arndt. They claimed they saw Turner sexually involved with the victim while she appeared to be motionless. The student took off running after the two boys yelled over to him. Jonsson and Fredrik eventually caught Turner and held him down for ten minutes before the police arrived on scene.