Stanford rape survivor identifies herself four years after Brock Turner was jailed

The Stanford rape survivor, whose case made multiple headlines and led to considerable outrage owing to an unbelievably short sentence — of six months in jail — handed to rapist Brock Turner, has identified herself publicly four years after the horrifying incident.

Known as "Emily Doe" during Brock Turner's trial, Chanel Miller has now stepped up to reveal her name ahead of her memoir, Know My Name, which is slated to hit bookstores around the world this month (September).

Miller, whose 7,000-word victim impact statement had gone viral just before the #MeToo movement started, recently read out the same statement while being filmed ahead of an exclusive interview she gave to CBS programme 60 Minutes set to be aired September 22.

"In newspapers, my name was 'unconscious, intoxicated woman.' … I had to force myself to relearn my real name, my identity. To relearn that this is not all that I am," she said as she read her statement out loud.

"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."

Turner had raped an unconscious Miller behind a dumpster and was stopped when two fellow students at the college had decided to intervene.

Read Chanel Miller's statement in its entirety here

The case — and the subsequent six-month sentence handed down to Brock Turner — had caused worldwide anger due to multiple reasons, including the fact that the rapist is a white man and a swimmer at a top college, was given a short sentence due to what many believed was because of his class and skin colour, and had used alcohol to justify the barbaric act, while his father had defended him by saying the rape was just "20 minutes of action".

That Turner — who had asserted that the rape was consensual — only faced six months in jail for the crime and served only three instead of the 14 years according to the law further added to the frustration around the world.

'By the way, he’s really good at swimming'

Later, however, Judge Aaron Persky, who sentenced Turner for six months only, was removed following the explosive — and justified — outrage on his light sentence.

Further, the sexual assault laws in California were revised, allowing survivors to use the word "rape" in the court regardless of whether the attack did or did not meet the definition of "rape" in the state's laws. It was also made obligatory for rapists to serve time in a state prison.

Miller, on the other hand, had revealed that she got to know about the sexual assault details through a news article. She had also pointed out the disgusting manner in which rapist Turner's swimming record was mentioned in the same article.

“She was found breathing, unresponsive with her underwear six inches away from her bare stomach curled in foetal position. By the way, he’s really good at swimming,” she had said in her statement.

Separately, Viking UK publisher Venetia Butterfield had termed the memoir as "a work of immense power that will define a movement and change lives" while Viking editor-in-chief Andrea Schulz had said it "illuminates a culture built to protect perpetrators and a criminal justice system designed to fail the most vulnerable".