This article discusses sexual assault.
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Carl-Fredrik Arndt and Peter Jonsson, the Swedish students who happened upon Brock Turner while he was attacking a young woman in Stanford University, have recalled the night they came to her rescue.
Biking across the Stanford University campus after midnight on January 18, 2015, Carl-Fredrik Arndt and Peter Jonsson found 19-year-old Brock Turner lying on top of a woman behind a dumpster, NBC News reported. As they got closer, the scene began to look stranger and stranger.
“We saw that she was not moving, while he was moving a lot”. They made a decision to confront Turner. “So we stopped and thought, ‘This is very unusual.’ When he got up we saw that she still wasn’t moving at all, so we walked up and asked something like, ‘What are you doing?'”
After a brief exchange, Turner bolted.
Turner attempted to flee – and Jonsson tackled him, later joined by Arndt as a third, separate man contacted the authorities. He says he was lying “perfectly still“.
Turner then tried to run away, but the men managed to catch and restrain him while they called the police.
Turner was “aggressively thrusting his hips into her”, he said in a police statement following the sex assault.
Towards the end of her letter, she thanks them.
The two Swedish graduate students who stepped in to save the victim in the Stanford rape case have broken their silence, reminding us that even in the most horrifying of stories, there can be heroes.
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“Most importantly, thank you to the two men who saved me, who I have yet to meet”, the victim wrote in the statement, which was widely shared on social media. That we are looking out for one another. The Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney, Alaleh Kianerci, said that without Arndt and Jonsson – both of whom were key witnesses in the trial – Brock would never have been held accountable for his actions.
