It’s a 12-page letter that has been shared online more than 8 million times. “Rape still counts no matter how many seconds it lasts”.
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– A six-month jail term for a former Stanford University swimmer convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman on campus after both attended a fraternity party is being decried as a slap on the wrist.
Experts said she effectively highlighted the obstacles to recovery that sex assault victims face and the support they need to succeed.
He tried to flee, but the students tackled and pinned him down until police arrived and arrested him. He was found guilty back in March of the intent to commit rape of an intoxicated/unconscious person, penetration of an unconscious person, and penetration of an intoxicated person.
In a letter he penned to Santa Clara Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky, Brock Turner wrote that he was shattered by “the party culture and risk-taking behavior that I briefly experienced in my four months at school”.
An online petition has been launched to recall Persky, which now has more than 400,000 signatures and counting.
“Cory Batey’s minimum possible prison sentence, though, is actually 3,000% longer than what Brock Turner was given for a comparable crime”, the New York Daily News reports.
She explained how she learned she had been raped after waking up in a doctor’s office the morning after.
He had told the court he ran because he thought he was being attacked and that the victim consented.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the victim called Arndt and Jonsson heroes during a statement she made in the courtroom.
Saunders has been involved in sexual assault and rape cases for almost a decade in Pitt County.
That January night, the two graduate students riding their bikes nearby stopped the assault from continuing.
“Six months for someone who viciously attacked a woman especially after she was so fearless to come forward, is outrageous”, California Senator Barbara Boxer said in a statement. “It really helps”, Carter said. “I became closed off, angry, self-deprecating, tired, irritable, empty”, she said. It’s an important conversation that she encourages parents to have with their children and teenagers. “This content was removed in error, and we are now working to restore it”, a Facebook spokesperson said.
Shedding light on incidents such as the assault at Stanford raises awareness about sexual violence, but curbing these disturbing numbers will require a widespread change in attitudes across the U.S.
The Blue Bench offer youth programs for Denver Public Schools and Jefferson County Schools.
The incident is unusual for several reasons when compared to available data on sexual assaults, which is collected and structured by the Graphiq network.
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The sexual assault hotline: 303-322-7273.
