Cory Batey, a former Vanderbilt University football player, was convicted of aggravated rape when he sexually assaulted an unconscious woman in a dorm room on campus.
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A judge who attended Stanford and played lacrosse there as an undergraduate sentenced the 20-year-old Turner of Dayton, Ohio, to the jail stint, three years’ probation and ordered him to register as a sex offender. That’s why we removed them from our roster.
“It’s unacceptable”, she added. “It was very shocking and disturbing”.
The graduate students asked Turner what he was doing, but he began running, Arndt said.
An online petition at Change.org urging the removal of the judge had collected more than 400,000 clicks of support by Tuesday afternoon, in a largely symbolic gesture.
A letter that added fuel to the national outcry against a six-month sentence handed down to a former Stanford University student who was convicted of sexually assaulting a woman after a fraternity party a year ago has gone viral with additional edits from an outraged critic.
However, the judge only sentenced Turner to six months in county jail because he feared a longer sentence would have a “severe impact” on the 20-year-old. The six-month jail sentence of the Olympic hopeful, who agreed to leave the prestigious school rather than face possible expulsion, unleashed a fury.
“The punishment does not fit the crime”, Rosen said in a statement after the sentence was announced Thursday. Turner ends by pleading with Judge Persky to grant him probation, promising he’ll never be an issue for law enforcement.
United States senator Barbara Boxer on Tuesday decried a California judge’s decision to sentence a college athlete to just six months in jail for sexual assault, while signatures on an online petition calling for the jurist’s ouster passed 400,000.
(Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office via AP). The student, Brock Turner, was arrested and agreed to withdraw from Stanford and never return rather than go through expulsion proceedings.
“He will never be his happy go lucky self with that easy going personality and welcoming smile”, Turner’s father wrote. His father wrote that a harsher conviction would be “a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of his 20 plus years of life”.
“She was unconscious the entire time”, one of the students, Carl Frederik Arndt, told CBS News. I don’t want to read about this anymore.
The woman also spoke about the “two guys on bikes” who tackled Turner, whom she described as “heroes”. “I wanted to take off my body like a jacket and leave it at the hospital with everything else”.
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It continued: “Now, my choices to defer college to write and play music, to finally introduce 10 years of hard work to a national audience while working consistently and intentionally on my own personal and professional integrity, has led to an uproar of judgment and hatred unleashed on me, my band and my family”.
