![]() “I hope he learns,” Prout said stoically when asked about Labrie. ![]() He was on the train to visit his girlfriend at Harvard at the time. Prout said she doesn’t think much about Labrie, who began serving his one-year jail sentence early, in March, after a journalist caught him violating his curfew. Though the Prouts didn’t say so forthrightly in their interview on Today, the judge’s approval of this motion was part of the impetus for Chessy and her family to speak out publicly. The school also asked for permission to refer to the victim and her family by name during pretrial deposition and at trial. Responding to the Prouts’ motion to retain their pseudonyms during legal proceedings, the school wrote in a separate court filing that while it didn’t object to the court protecting the Prouts’ anonymity, the Prouts had to agree to not make “further public statements” about the civil suit “until litigation is completed.” Paul’s has further denied that it could have prevented the sexual assault, writing in a response to the Prouts’ suit that only Chessy and Labrie “know what happened” on the night they met up. However, there’s no denying the survivor’s experience caused us to look anew at the culture and … brought about positive changes.” The school issued a statement denying wrongdoing: “We categorically deny that there ever existed at the school a culture or tradition of sexual assault. Unfortunately, it seems like the school’s reputation became more important, rather than supporting our daughter.” We thought our first daughter had a good experience there. My husband had a wonderful experience there. If ever there was a family to work with, it would have been our family. Susan Prout added: “You’d think the campus would say, ‘Uh oh, we need to talk about what’s happened,’ but we didn’t see that happening. “We’re talking about children and we feel an obligation that this not happen to any future kids at the school,” Alexander Prout told Guthrie. The suit refers to the “Senior Salute” as a “campus-wide competition that encouraged senior men to commit statutory rape” and to treat underage female students as “targets of desire.” This summer, the Prouts pseudonymously sued the school for failing to address the predatory hook-up culture on campus that they believe led to Chessy’s assault, seeking $75,000 in damages. Paul’s alumnus Alexander Prout and mother Susan Prout, and her older sister Lucy, who graduated from the prep school in Labrie’s class. Prout was joined by her family during the interview: her father, St. “But, you know what, in the pursuit of justice I would have done anything.” “We had been prepared to just move forward with our lives, and to let them move forward with their lives,” she said. ![]() Prout also thought Labrie would privately acknowledge what had happened that night, and said she and her family would have dropped the criminal case if he’d simply written her an apology letter. They weren’t trying to prevent it from happening,” she told Guthrie. “Nobody was talking about the issue itself. ![]() She felt betrayed by fellow students and the school, and left before the end of the first semester. I guess they were uncomfortable,” she said. ![]() Research has shown that sexual assault victims frequently don’t recognize the extent of the crime right away, or purposely downplay it to themselves because they’re ashamed of what happened.Īfter the assault, Prout returned to school the following semester and found that “none of my old friends that were boys would talk to me. “I looked at in disbelief and said, ‘I was raped!’” Prout told Guthrie. Prout told Guthrie it was important that people understand the “effects of the crime.”Īt one point during the three days that she testified in court, Labrie’s attorney asked Prout why she was so “hazy” during that period when she and Labrie exchanged messages. Likewise the defense’s decision to reveal friendly messages that she and Labrie exchanged after the assault, citing them as evidence that their encounter was consensual. “The fact that he was still able to pull the wool over a group of people’s eyes bothered me a lot and just disgusted me in some way,” she added. “That frustrated me a lot because he definitely did do it knowingly. “They said they didn’t believe he did it knowingly,” she said on Today. Prout told Guthrie that she vehemently disagreed with the jury’s decision. Prout, who was only 15 at the time, knew she was Labrie’s “Senior Salute” target.īut when reporting her case to authorities (and testifying in a criminal trial last summer), she said she hadn't wanted their encounter to escalate sexually-and that Labrie had raped her.Ī jury found Labrie guilty on three misdemeanor counts of sexually assaulting Prout, which he is trying to appeal, but acquitted him of felony sexual assault charges. Labrie took Prout to a dark mechanical room in the math and science building on campus. ![]()
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