The former Sanford University student and swim team star left Santa Clara Jail in San Jose, California with a paper bag filled with his belongings while news cameras filmed.
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A woman wearing a “Stanford Loves Rapists” shirt attends a San Jose rally to recall Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky.
TV news cameras caught the 21-year-old former swimmer as he left the Santa Clara County Jail in San Jose, California, and quickly drove away in a auto without commenting.
As Turner left the jail, wearing dress trousers and a wrinkled white shirt, a small group of demonstrators and members of the press watched.
Turner is believed to have stayed at a hotel with his mother in Mountain View, California, Friday night. He plans to head to his native OH to live with his parents.
He will have to take a sex-offender counselling course, which could last up to three years.
A few hours after Brock Turner was released, numerous people gathered outside the Santa Clara County jail to protest Judge Aaron Persky’s lenient judgment of a severe case. Postcards then will be mailed to alert nearby homeowners that a sex offender lives in the area, Greene County Sheriff Gene Fischer told ABC News. He can not live near schools, parks and other places where children congregate.
The sheriff says he’ll be “treated no differently than any other sex offender we monitor”. He was sent off with a bundle of the mail.
She also voiced support for a pending legislative bill that would mandate prison for Turner’s crimes. “He should never have been here in the first place”, Smith said.
The bill is awaiting the signature of Gov. “Judge Persky has put the interest of convicted abusers ahead of interests for victims of sexual assault”. His name, photo and address will be publicly available on Ohio’s online sex offender registry. He served 3 months of a six month sentence for a sexual assault at Stanford.
“Brock Turner was proven guilty of raping an unconscious woman behind a dumpster”.
Chief Justice Jorge Labarga said Judge Collins “berated and belittled a victim of domestic violence” and used sarcasm and inflammatory language against the woman, who repeatedly pleaded with Judge Collins to not send her to jail because she had to care for her 1-year-old son.
Until now, anyone convicted of rape using additional physical force must serve time in prison, but Turner benefited from a loophole excluding those who sexually assaulted unconscious or heavily intoxicated victims from mandatory incarceration. In the January 18, 2015 encounter, he was seen thrusting his hips atop an unconscious, partially clothed woman outside the Kappa Alpha fraternity. The two Swedish men who stumbled across the incident were so disturbed by what they saw that they cried when police arrived.
When the officer asked if the decision to make out was a mutual thing, Turner responds in the affirmative.
When the judge in Turner’s case announced he was inclined to sentence him to six months, Deputy District Attorney Alaleh Kianerci urged him to reconsider, noting that six months “really means three months in county jail”. He has also started a campaign committee to defend his judgeship.
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“I think it was a wrong sentence”, Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith said this morning.
