The former Stanford student was convicted of assault with intent to rape an intoxicated woman, sexually penetrating an intoxicated person with a foreign object, and sexually penetrating an unconscious person with a foreign object.
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The Brock Turner sexual-assault case has been garnering a massive amount of attention after Judge Aaron Persky handed the Stanford swimmer a lenient six-month sentence despite him being convicted of three counts of sexual assault.
Brock Turner’s crime was not the result of “binge drinking and its unfortunate results”.
And every woman is thankful for her words. “And that distorted me, damaged me, nearly broke me”.
Said lynch mobbers or do-gooders then took to Twitter, Facebook and other social streams to demand Rasmussen’s band, which includes her two sisters, be dumped from at least four gigs that included some in Brooklyn clubs hosting a small music festival called the Northside Festival.
In his ruling, Persky, who also attended Stanford, cited Turner’s age, no “significant” prior legal problems and said he carried “less moral culpability” because he was drunk the night of the attack. The rape came one week after he was similarly aggressive with another female, at a different fraternity party, at the same location, the document said.
Two people held Turner until police arrived after they saw him assaulting an unconscious woman behind a dumpster, Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen said.
The woman also spoke about the “two guys on bikes” who tackled Turner, whom she described as “heroes”.
“This is the reason so many victims of sexual assault never step forward”.
Campus policies put in place to prevent and respond to sexual assaults worked about as well as Stanford University officials expected, after a member of the school’s swimming team was spotted by a garbage bin on top of an unconscious woman.
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 stood there examining my body beneath the stream of water and decided, I don’t want my body anymore”.
The Guardian on Tuesday published a portion of Turner’s statement to the judge in his case to illustrate what the victim was talking about. There isn’t a second that has gone by where I haven’t regretted the course of events I took on January 17th/18th.
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Brock Turner – the ex-Stanford swimmer convicted of rape – has been placed in protective custody while serving his sentence at Santa Clara County Jail to keep him safe from inmates who might harm him, TMZ Sports has learned.
