Bibliograph

I have the right to, a high school survivor's story of sexual assault, justice, and hope, Chessy Prout with Jenn Abelson

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I have the right to, a high school survivor's story of sexual assault, justice, and hope, Chessy Prout with Jenn Abelson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-384)

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

I have the right to

Oclc number

989792009

Responsibility statement

Chessy Prout with Jenn Abelson

Sub title

a high school survivor's story of sexual assault, justice, and hope

Summary

The numbers are staggering: nearly one in five girls ages fourteen to seventeen have been the victim of a sexual assault or attempted sexual assault. This is the true story of one of those girls. In 2014, Prout was a freshman at St. Paul's School, a prestigious boarding school in New Hampshire, when a senior boy sexually assaulted her as part of a ritualized game of conquest. She reported her assault to the police and testified against her attacker in court. In the face of unexpected backlash from her once-trusted school community, she shed her anonymity to help other survivors find their voice

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