![]() ![]() The school has no tradition or culture that would ever allow or condone what happened to Chessy. "The senior salute-something similar to asking someone out-was never a tradition and was not about assault or coercion. Chessy bravely stepped forward to address an issue important not just to schools, but to the entire country," it reads, but then goes on to criticize her account of what happened to her. "We fully support Chessy’s trailblazing work to give a voice to sexual assault victims. Paul's issued a statement, which praises Prout for her advocacy. It usually started around May, when they invited girls to a secret spot with the hopes of hooking up."įollowing the publication of Prout's book, St. Paul's where sixth formers tried to make out with as many younger girls as possible before graduation. She also writes that her assault was part of a tradition called the "senior salute," which Prout describes as "a well-known ritual at St. Paul's as a place where "everything was about status, tradition and hierarchy- and guys ruled all three."Ĭhessy Prout with her family following her high school graduation. (She transferred back home to a school in Naples, Florida after the attack.) Throughout the text, she recounts the misogyny she faced at the formerly all-male institution, at one point describing St. To put it mildly, Prout doesn't paint a lovely picture of her former high school in the book. She says she "wanted to tell the harsh honest truth of what it’s really like to go through something like this" in hopes that it might help readers understand the survivors in their lives. The text recounts her sexual assault and her multiple trials in explicit detail. "I felt like I was strong enough to share my story and hopefully offer an inside look into at least one survivor’s mind," she says. They’re protected under anonymity, but at times that can really hurt us as much as it helps us," Prout tells me over the phone, when asked about why she wanted to write a book. "So often victims and survivors aren’t given a voice through this process. Now, she's taking back her narrative again, in a memoir titled I Have the Right To, A High School Survivor's Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope. ![]() Her nonprofit, I Have The Right To, offers emotional support to survivors."I feel ready to stand up and own what happened to me,” Prout told Savannah Guthrie at the time. His victim, Chessy Prout, went public in 2016 and has become an advocate for sexual assault survivors. #6 His victim has become an advocate for sexual assault survivors Denise Holland is a public-school teacher in Vermont. from Brown, a onetime college instructor, an editor at Chelsea Green Publishing. Cannon Labrie is a graduate of Andover with a Ph.D. His parents are Cannon Labrie and Denise Holland. He served as captain of the varsity soccer team-who had won full-ride admission to Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, Brown, Duke, Stanford, Middlebury, and the University of Virginia. Paul’s School -an elite private school in Concord, New Hampshire. Owen Arthur Labrie was born Octothe son of Cannon Labrie and Denise Holland. Though he was acquitted of rape in the 2015 case, Labrie was convicted of misdemeanor sexual assault, endangering children and a felony charge of using a computer to lure his victim for *** a felony that requires him to register as a *** offender for life. #3 Labrie was acquitted of the more serious rape charges The alleged incident between Labrie and his victim took place in 2014 during senior salute activity -a tradition at the boarding school where a senior student emails a younger student before their graduation. ![]() His offenses put a spotlight on the open secret of the hypersexualized culture at the school, including the “senior salute,” in which older students would try to get younger ones to engage in sexual acts with them. #2 Owen Labrie was allegedly part of a so-called “Senior Salute” He was serving the remaining 10 months of his sentence at Merrimack County’s jail. He was ordered to serve what was left of his sentence in jail in 2016. Though he was originally freed on bail under curfew, a judge revoked that after prosecutors accused him of missing the curfew numerous times. He had completed nearly six months.ġ# He was originally freed on bail under curfew According to reports the now 23-year-old has been released from jail on good behavior. Back in 2015 Labrie was accused of raping a 15-year-old classmate as part of a well-known sexual conquest ritual. ![]()
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