NEW HAMPSHIRE
Boston Globe
By Nestor Ramos GLOBE STAFF SEPTEMBER 12, 2016
Two weeks ago, Chessy Prout’s name and face were relegated to the darkest corners of the Internet, where trolls reveled in outing — and trashing — a teenage sexual assault victim. They posted pictures of her and her home and her sisters.
But Google her today, and you’ll find story after story about a survivor’s bravery.
In coming forward publicly last month, Prout, who was 15 when she was assaulted by Owen Labrie on the campus of their elite Concord, N.H., prep school, didn’t so much reveal her identity as she reclaimed it, she said in an interview with the Globe.
She leaned on her family, her faith, and her recent friendship with other survivors of sexual violence in deciding to break her silence in an Aug. 30 national television interview, she said. And with “take back the night” rallies and marches echoing in her mind, she decided, she said, “to take back the Internet.”
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