"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. "I feel ready to stand up and own what happened to me,” Prout told Savannah Guthrie at the time.
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