Turner, a 21-year-old swimmer, was released early for good behaviour and didn’t answer questions as he left the Santa Clara County Jail in San Jose, California.
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“I think it’s outrageous”, said Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith “He’s gone from our custody and should never have been here in the first place”. He served half of a six-month sentence that drew a furious public response.
Now, cops in Sugarcreek Township, Ohio, are tracking social media to monitor threats, and keeping an extra close eye on the Turner house, as local residents are understandably angry that a convicted rapist is among them.
It is expected he will return to live with his parents in Ohio. That’s where he grew up, and where he went after agreeing to withdraw from Stanford following his January 18, 2015, arrest.
Now that he’s been released from a California jail – after serving half of a six-month sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman at Stanford University – Brock Turner is planning to live with his parents in OH, where prison officials have agreed to supervise his probation. Santa Clara County Presiding Judge Rise Pichon granted that request.
Brock Turner was released from prison on September 2, 2016, three months into his six-month sentence for three counts of sexual assault. 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.
Even though there were several witnesses and Brock Turner was literally caught in the act, he was only sentenced to six months in jail because Judge Persky believed a longer sentence would have a “severe impact” on Turner. “What that does is, among other things, is that people who signed up for email alerts will get an email alert if he lives in that neighborhood”, Fisher said.
Turner’s trial lawyer indicated he would.
The sentence set off a storm of outrage and was widely criticised as too lenient, with prosecutors labelling it a “slap on the wrist”. His decision is also seen as a reaction to a campaign to recall him from the elected position he held onto in June because he ran unopposed. The judge in the case, Aaron Persky, has come under fire for a sentence that many consider to be a slap on the wrist. Persky responded by voluntarily removing himself from criminal cases to handle civil suits instead. The outcry also prompted legislation sent to Brown last week that would effectively require prison for anyone convicted of raping or sexually assaulting an unconscious or intoxicated person. When he returns home to OH, he will be greeted by protesters, some of whom are armed, according to ABC.
A Bureau of Justice Statistics report released earlier this year said that nearly one in four female college students face sexual assault.
A jury in March found Turner guilty of three felony sexual assault counts.
They show the dumpster where police say Turner assaulted the unconscious 22-year-old woman. The woman had passed out and Turner was on top of her when confronted by two graduate students passing by on bicycles.
“You don’t know me, but you’ve been inside me, and that’s why we’re here today”, she told her attacker in the statement read in court. She is originally from one of the islands of Stockholm, Sweden.
Victims’ advocates in Sacramento are urging Gov.
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“I have a younger sister, who just started at Ohio State”, Goralski said.
