Harvard, learning of the investigation, rescinded his acceptance. Paul’s alum - pressed charges against Labrie, and he was arrested that summer. Prout and her parents - her father is a St. How you handle this will inform the rest of your life.” Owen Labrie AP (Prout writes that, although he texted her that he had put on a condom halfway through their encounter, he later backtracked and said that they hadn’t had intercourse.) It was her dorm adviser who said: “Call your mother. She was a virgin who wasn’t entirely sure she had even had sex with Labrie. “It was so painful but I couldn’t move.” She didn’t want to do anything that would make Labrie angry because “I was scared he could get more aggressive.”Īfterward, a shaken Prout told friends what happened, showing them his bite marks on her breasts. “I couldn’t feel my body anymore, so I shut my eyes and focused on the deafening sound of the machines,” Prout writes.
She realized with horror that something was inside her, and that it couldn’t be his fingers, as both his hands were beside her shoulders. was astounding and confusing,” she writes. When she forced her panties back over her hips and asked him to keep all activity above the waist, he called her a tease. He pinned her hands back so she couldn’t move. Prout said that Labrie pressed her against the wall and began kissing her and taking off her clothes. The date involved sneaking into a locked mechanical room in one of the school’s towers within minutes, things got sexual. She agreed to meet Labrie two nights before graduation. “I was flattered that one of the most popular boys thought I was special,” Prout writes. But after Prout rebuffed his invite, a mutual friend told her that Labrie was a nice guy. She had been warned about the popular athlete her older sister, a senior, had told Prout to stay away from him, and other female students had described Labrie as “aggressive.” Plus, Prout had heard tales of the school’s “senior salute” tradition, in which upperclassmen (and some women) tried to engage in sexual acts - anything from snuggling to kissing to full-on sex - with as many underclassmen as possible. On May 30, 2014, Prout had agreed to go on an outing with Labrie, who promised the younger student a secret view of the campus. “I feel ready to stand up and own what happened to me and make sure other people, other girls and boys, don’t need to be ashamed, either.” “I am not afraid or ashamed anymore, and I never should have been,” Prout said in her first public interview, on the “Today” show in August 2016. Right now, it’s particularly potent in the #MeToo era, when women - and men - are going public with their tales of harassment and assault. (Alumni of the school include John Kerry and former New York City mayor John Lindsay.) Paul’s community felt that their traditions were being threatened. The case was a lightning rod, attracting attention for its sensational details and setting off controversy about the prep-school world of privilege and elitism - especially as some members of the St. Now, Prout, 19, has co-written a memoir, “ I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor’s Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope” (Margaret K. So she decided to come forward and not be an anonymous victim anymore. “I’m tired of being an anonymous victim while my attacker is this superstar scholar-athlete,” she told her mother. privileged, preppy, naive, impressionable, flummoxed.” Prout, unnamed in the story, felt she was portrayed as a “blank nothing. Her assailant, Owen Labrie - who the previous year was acquitted of felony sexual assault but convicted on three misdemeanor counts of statutory rape and using a computer to lure a minor for sex - was described as a golden boy: handsome, suntanned, captain of the varsity soccer team and “a winner of the headmaster’s award for selfless devotion to school activities” whose Ivy League admission was rescinded after his arrest. Paul’s, had sexually assaulted her two years prior. The magazine had published a story about her rape case, in which she claimed an 18-year-old senior at her former high school, the elite New England academy St. One day in February 2016, Chessy Prout, then 17, picked up an issue of Vanity Fair. The dark truth behind the glamorous facade of ballet school Spare me these sickeningly hypocritical Met Gala celebrity cockroachesĪctor claims agency fired him after he refused to pose nude for Oscar-winning director who promised Marvel role How do celebrities enjoy their summer without a care in the world?
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