"The damage is done. No one can undo it," Miller told Turner in court. "And now we both have a choice. We can let this destroy us, I can remain angry and hurt and you can be in denial, or we can face it head on - I accept the pain, you accept the punishment, and we move on."

Critics decried what they viewed as Persky's leniency, while the judge said he was obligated to consider rehabilitation and probation for first-time offenders such as Turner. Many people criticized the sentence as too small a price to pay given the magnitude of the crime. Voters ousted Persky, a judge in Santa Clara County, after a recall campaign last year.

Turner, who at the time of the assault was a freshman at Stanford and a member of the varsity swimming team, was found guilty on three counts of felony sexual assault for the Jan. 18, 2015, incident outside a fraternity party. California judge Aaron Persky sentenced Turner to six months in jail, but because of good behavior he served only three.

She never would have found herself addressing that man

Initially, Chanel Miller did not want the world to know her name. If the world didn't know her name, it would mean that she had never been found half-naked behind a Stanford University dumpster "with her underwear six inches away from her bare stomach." It would mean that she had never been sexually assaulted by a stranger.