Protesters walk in front of Brock Turner’s house in Sugarcreek Twp. awaiting his arrival.
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Brock Turner has just been released from the Santa Clara County Jail.
21-year-old Brock Turner was silent as he left the Santa Clara County jail Friday morning in California.
Turner moved silently past dozens of media members and protestors, carrying a jacket and paper bag under his arm, before departing in a waiting SUV.
“He’s just not welcome”, Molly Hardin, one of Turner’s neighbors, told CBS. He plans to head to his native OH to live with his parents.
Turner, like almost all California jail inmates, was released after serving half his sentence.
He must complete a sex-offender counseling class for one to three years.
Within five days of his arrival in Ohio, Turner is required to be photographed for the county sex offender registry.
As a Tier III sex offender, Turner will have to fulfill several mandatory requirements, including re-registering four times per year for the rest of his life and serving three years of probation.
Turner was charged with sexual assault instead of rape, because although he digitally penetrated the woman, he did not have intercourse with her, and California law does not define that as rape. The sentence was reduced to three months because of good behavior.
“I think 6 months was definitely not enough”, Katie Goralski said.
California state Senate president Kevin De Leon calls for the removal of Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky from the bench, at a protest outside the Santa Clara County Jail in San Jose, Calif., Friday, Sept. He was sent off with a bundle of the mail. “My family and I have endured over a year of inexplicable, unnecessary suffering, and he should face the consequences of challenging his crime, of putting my pain into question, of making us wait so long for justice”. The next thing she said she remembered was waking up at a hospital in San Jose, where a deputy told her she may have been a victim of sexual assault.
This January 2015 file booking photo released by the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office shows Brock Turner.
Two survivors of sexual violence also spoke on Friday: Kamilah Willingham, a Harvard Law School graduate whose story was featured in The Hunting Ground, a documentary about sexual assault on college campuses; and Sofie Karasek, an activist and one of several University of California, Berkeley students who filed a Title IX complaint against the university with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. “Kinda insane. (It’s) stupid what he did and it draws attention towards us”.
She urged Persky to disregard the probation officer’s recommendation of straight probation, based on findings that Turner was considered low risk to reoffend and had already endured great losses.
Brock Turner might be a free man, but that doesn’t mean the general public believes he’s served his time.
“Justice was not served”, Molly Hardin said. Turner, whose six-month sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman at Stanford University sparked national outcry, was released from jail after serving half his term.
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Legal analyst Steven Clark, a former Santa Clara County prosecutor, said even thousands of miles away from the scene of his crime, Turner’s life will still be closely watched.
