but youve been inside me, and thats why were here today, she began. The then-22-year-old, known as Emily Doe, recounted waking up in the hospital and learning that she had been found with her underwear off and her dress hiked up to her waist, dirt and pine needles in her vagina. She described,
a deep hostility toward Dauber and her tactics. On February 14, a letter arrived at Daubers Stanford office. The message inside read, Since you are going to disrobe Persky, I am going to treat you like Emily Doe. Lets see what kind of sentencing I get for being a rich white male. A white powder f
I was not to report on her children. She would not talk about her personal life. She would not talk about Emily Doe, their relationship or how Emily was faring. She also refused under any circumstances to pass along a message to her. Even considering an interview request would be too upsetting, Dau
For a time, she went to work as a wilderness ranger at Yosemite. It was a way to get her bearings, said Krakauer. In the following years, she also spent time with Emily Doe. Emily and her daughter were in the same herd, as she put it, and she was their den mother, Krakauer said. (Later, Dauber
For all of these reasons, Goodman saw Persky as the second victim in the case, after Emily Doe, with Dauber playing the second aggressor, after Brock Turner. Shes a bully, he nearly spat. Shes ruined a mans reputation based on things that are factually inaccurate.
Given the enormous stakes, I wondered how Emily Doe felt about the very public fight that Dauber was waging to get justice for her. While Dauber was neither her parent nor her attorney, she portrayed herself as the sole gatekeeper to Emily Doe. She still refused to pass along an interview request be
I had seen some of Emily Does other writing and believed the statement was her workher voice, with its emotional charge, was immediately recognizable. The tone also sounded nothing like Daubers cerebral wood chipper. I didnt even suggest one change after I read it because it would be like chang
Turners chief arguments are that there was not enough evidence to convict him on any of the three counts, that Persky should have permitted more of Turners character witnesses to testify, that Emily Doe consented before passing out, and that by referring so many times to the dumpster, Emilys lawy
The dumpster is gone now. Last year, Dauber proposed turning the site of the assault into a small seated garden with a plaque quoting from Emily Does statement, the words that had launched a movement. Stanford was open to the idea, but the project stalled over a disagreement between Dauber and Stan
