“I do not know your name-but I will never forget you”, he added. Words that should be required reading for men and women of all ages.
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“I don’t think it’s fair to base the fate of the next ten + years of his life on the decision of a girl who doesn’t remember anything but the amount she drank to press charges against him”, Rasmussen, who plays drums in the band, wrote. “I am the wrong person, but it still doesn’t make it right”.
Both students then went over to Turner to see what was happening.
You are a warrior – with a solid steel spine.
Actress Lena Dunham offered support for the victim on her Twitter (TWTR.N) page on Wednesday, posting a video about sexual assault. The online petition has gathered nearly 11,000 signatures.
He continued, “I thought we were in the heat of the moment and I asked her if she wanted me to “finger” her and she said yes”.
In it, the woman recalled the emptiness she experienced after the attack, vented her anger over her assailant’s seeming lack of remorse and described in detail her invasive hospital examination, recounting the ruler nurses used to measure the scrapes on her body and how enough pine needles to fill a paper bag came out of her hair. More than a year later, he was finally convicted of three felony counts of sexual assault and sentenced to six months in prison last Thursday.
Turner could’ve gotten 14 years, but the judge disgustingly took pity on him while his father made excuses for his son’s deplorable conduct. However, as revealed in the very next sentence, Turner seems most distraught not for his victim but for his future:”I’ve lost two jobs exclusively based on the reporting of my case”.
Even worse, Turner will only serve half of that sentence so long as he keeps a “clean disciplinary record”.
A representative of the jail told TMZ that he will only be able to mingle with inmates who are also under protective custody like those convicted of sexual assault, gang dropouts and LGBT detainees. He partially blamed the school’s party culture for his actions but prosecutors say he has shown concerning behavior before and Matt Gutman has the latest from Stanford. A culture that promotes passivity.
Critics have slammed the father’s letter, particularly this comment, as “tone-deaf” and encouraging “rape culture”, or, as USA TODAY put it, “This guy’s dad just showed us what rape culture looks like”. Key witness in Stanford sexual assault case speaks outTurner’s high school guidance counselor is also apologizing. It’s obscene, and it’s a failure that lies at all our feet.
“It is rape when she’s unconscious”, one sign reads. Period. It is a crime.
In the statement he read in court prior to his sentencing, Turner told a different tale of the night of January 17, 2015, when he admitted drinking too much and engaging in sexual activity with a girl he met at a frat party.
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Turner was accused of assaulting a young woman as she lay unconscious behind a trash bin. You will meet justice. What do you need today, what do you need five days from now? The man in question was Brock Turner, and once Arndt and Jonsson realized he was sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, they chose to act. Until that changes, we will never live in a truly free and equal society.
