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Chanel Miller — the “Emily Doe” who became a #MeToo movement champion with a powerful victim-impact statement against her assailant — has given her first television interview. In an interview with 60 Minutes, Miller, who went public with her real identity earlier this month, recalls her reaction to the March 2016 sentencing of Brock Turner, a former star swimmer at Stanford University. Turner was found guilty of three felonies for sexually assaulting her outside an on-campus fraternity party in January 2015, and served only three months in county jail. “I was in shock,” Miller says. “So you’re saying I just...

In September 2018 a University of Kansas student met with police officers outside Lawrence Memorial Hospital. She explained to an officer that she had been raped the day before. The details, however, were blurry because she was drunk at the time, she said, according to court documents. Worried about what reporting a rape could mean for her career, she told officers she did not want to press charges. But she allowed them to look through her phone before going inside for a rape examination. Lawrence police detectives decided the student was lying and, without telling her, investigated her rather than...

Santa Ana, CA -- A 29-year-old Orange County woman was charged Wednesday with falsely accusing six men of kidnapping her at gunpoint and raping her. An indictment returned by an Orange County grand jury also accuses Tamara Anne Moonier of Dana Point with fraudulently receiving $1,850 from a state emergency fund for crime victims. She is scheduled to be arraigned July 8 on two felony counts of making a false police report and one count each of perjury and grand theft. If convicted on all counts she could be sentenced to as much as four years and eight months in...