One of the men who intervened in a high-profile United States rape incident at a Stanford University party has spoken of his experience after the rapist, Brock Turner, was sentenced to just six months jail.
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The uproar over the sentence, fueled in part by the victim’s harrowing letter in which she detailed the assault in graphic terms, is part of growing outrage over sexual assault on USA college campuses.
“I take him at his word that subjectively that’s his version of his events”, he said.
“The guy stood up, and then we saw she wasn’t moving still”.
Jonsson ran after Turner and stopped him, and the two men restrained him, called the police and held the undergraduate down until police arrived, Arndt told Expressen.
When former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner was convicted in March of raping an incapacitated woman behind a Dumpster after a campus frat party, he faced a maximum of 14 years in prison.
And the furor prompted a North Carolina pastor to write a widely circulated “open letter” to Turner’s father, Dan Turner, in which he criticizes the father for seeking leniency from the judge in a much-derided missive that discussed his son’s favorite foods and other memories. The case has been hugely controversial because of the court attitude towards the perpetrator, Brock Turner, who only received 6 months for the crime.
A petition to remove Persky from the bench in Santa Clara County has received almost 600,000 signatures. The charges do not include rape, which under California law requires a perpetrator to penetrate his or her victim with a sexual organ.
“She was unconscious the entire time”, one of the students, Carl Frederik Arndt, told CBS News.
As part of his sentence, Brock Turner is required to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life. “I think a lot of people can identify with both the perpetuator and the victim in this case”.
Referring to rape as “20 minutes of action” ignited a firestorm of criticism online, where millions also read the victim’s impact statement. Stanford has faced criticism for its handling of sexual assault cases, and according to the Huffington Post, five federal investigations into the school are now underway – more than any other school in the country. I never want to attend a social gathering that involves alcohol or any situation where people make decisions based on the substances they have consumed.
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The statement, like the one penned by friend Leslie Rasmussen, also attributes responsibility to the toxicity of college campus culture in America.
