The 20-year-old student from OH had faced up to 14 years behind bars for the January 2015 assault but is now expected to serve only 3 months of his 6-month sentence in a county jail.
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Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen made it clear how he felt about Persky handing down a six-month jail and probation sentence. In a text message to the prosecutor, the woman said she is deeply gratified that people are fighting for someone they don’t know anything about. The online furore has also led to an online protest to have Judge Persky removed from office.
She recounted waking up in a hospital bed in San Jose, California, on the morning of January 18, 2015 without any recollection of what had happened and described the invasive exam she underwent.
The woman at the centre of the attack, who has remained unidentified, read out a victim impact statement in court on Thursday in front of her attacker. Assault is not an accident. Somehow, you still don’t get it.
“This woman has perhaps superseded the work of every documentarian, the work of every politician, the work of every journalist, the work of any advocate who has tried to help people understand what is and what isn’t consent”, Banfield said in an interview with CNNMoney.
During the case, prosecutors called for Turner to be jailed for six years. He said his son only got “20 minutes of action”, and shouldn’t have to go to prison. Turner must also serve three years of probation and register as a sex offender.
“Now, he barely consumes any food and eats only to exist”, the letter states.
Brock Turner’s father, Dan A. Turner, also wrote to the court before the sentencing last week.
Despite what critics called its tone-deafness, however, the letter apparently worked.
“While I strongly disagree with the sentence that Judge Persky issued in the Brock Turner case, I do not believe he should be removed from his judgeship”, Rosen said in a statement Monday. The Post’s article on Turner goes into a lot of detail about his life – even going as far as calling him “baby-faced” and calling the sexual assault “a stunning fall from grace” as it detailed his record as a swimmer. “I think he will not be a danger to others”.
She implored Persky to not be lenient.
Persky, 54, while sentencing Turner, said he took into consideration the athlete’s lack of criminal history, his apparent remorse, and the fact that both parties were intoxicated.
The victim’s letter begins by bluntly addressing her attacker.
“This is how a victim is impacted”. My father, my male cousins, my male friends have never gone out and raped women when drunk because they are not rapists, just like they have never murdered anyone when drunk because they are not murderers.
Dauber told The Guardian she will launch her formal campaign this week.
“For anybody whose once-normal, everyday life was suddenly shattered by an act of sexual violence, the trauma, the terror can shadow you long after one awful attack”, Mr Obama said.
The University commended the graduate students who intervened in the attack and said that other witnesses cooperated in the investigation.
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Media captionJulia Dixon filed a complaint against her university for the way it handled her sexual assault case.
