The victim in today's case, whom we'll call Emily Doe, wrote a victim-impact statement

that shortly after reading it out loud in a courtroom in Santa Clara, California, went

viral after Buzzfeed printed it on their website.

It read, in part,

You have dragged me through this hell with you, dipped me back into that night again and

again.

You knocked down both of our towers.

I collapsed at the same time you did.

Your damage was concrete, stripped of titles, degrees, enrollments.

My damage was internal, unseen.

I carry it with me.

You took away my worth, my privacy, my energy, my time, my safety, my intimacy, my confidence,

my own voice, until today.

It had been about a year and a half on January 18, 2015 to be exact, since the call of an

unconscious female came into the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office in Palo Alto, California.

A little after 1am, deputies, Adams and Taylor responded to 664 Lomita Court, housing

that belonged to the Kappa Alpha fraternity on the Stanford University campus.

When they got to the side of the house, they saw a woman who would later come to be known

as 22-year-old Emily Doe, lying on her left side in the fetal position behind a dumpster

under a pine tree.

She was wearing a black dress which was pulled up to her waist, her underwear in a wad

on the ground about six inches away from her.

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