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Five jumbled up sentences, related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd one out and key in the number of the sentence as your answer.
1. Women could bear witness in court regarding their violation and try to seek justice and reparation, we can still hear their voices today in the form of survivor testimonies from medieval court records.
2. These shelter feminists were reluctant to take money from state bureaucrats who were, in one activist's words, 'embodiments of the top-down hierarchical, imperialistic, war-mongering society'.
3. These testimonies are often short on detail and laced with legal jargon, but we can nonetheless read them in the vein of present-day survivor narratives while short and broad, the medieval documents nonetheless conjure contemporary traumas, such as the gut-wrenching account of Chanel Miller, found unconscious and half-naked behind a dumpster at Stanford University in 2015 after being sexually assaulted by Brock Allen Turner, then a student and swim team champ.
4. In England and Scotland between 1200 and 1600, rape - defined legally as a man having sex with a woman against her will and 'by force' - was considered a criminal offence, and there were laws in place to deal with rapists, women themselves could press rape charges without the help of a father, brother or husband, in contrast to stereotypes of medieval women as helpless damsels in distress, dependent on men to come to their aid.
5. Her missive, which went viral, expresses outrage that Turner, who faced 14 years in prison for felony sexual assault, in fact received just a paltry sentence of six months in 2016.
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