But he’s expected to be released three months early, on September 2. Ultimately, the rapes at Stanford show only a small picture of the 4,964 sexual assaults reported at four-year US colleges and universities in 2014.
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“You took away my worth, my privacy, my energy, my time, my safety, my intimacy, my confidence, my own voice, until today”. I can only say that I am committed to learning from this mistake.
“We’ve all heard more of the opposite”, she says. “She was half-naked”.
The attack was stopped by two grad students who happened to ride by on bicycles. “So we stop and think that there is something unusual going on”, Arndt told the news outlet Expressen in Swedish, an interview that was first translated by BuzzFeed News.
“She wasn’t moving”, he told ABC News during an interview in Palo Alto, California, on Tuesday night.
It is right that we shame him, and his father, and the friend that came to his defense, and the judge, and every other entitled prick we meet.
Carl-Fredrik Arndt and his friend, Lars Peter Jonsson, said they saw Turner “aggressively thrusting his hips” into the victim, who was laying motionless behind a skip, when they happened to ride by on the evening of January 18, 2015. For now though, as one father to another: “help us teach our children to do better – by letting them see us do better”.
“It was kind of a punch to the gut”, said Alaleh Kianerci, prosecutor in the case. “I cried. I felt like I didn’t do my part in representing her interests in the case because of the slap-on-the-wrist sentence that the defendant got”.
Turner sought probation but last week received a six-month jail term that has been criticized as too lenient. Also an online petition to oust the judge from his post has so far had 750,000 backers.
The victim’s letter, which was initially read in court, has since gone viral. Whether you serve six months or three, you will always be that convicted felon, and you should carry the weight of that, because you made the choice to force a woman to carry the weight of your self-professed “20 minutes of action” for the rest of her life.
“You’ve got to be out of your mind to talk that way”, said Goodman.
“This is the reason so many victims of sexual assault never step forward”. I’ve lost employment opportunity, my reputation and most of all, my life. She is the wounded one.
“Because of all the Brock Turner stuff, people are acting poorly”, Gary Goodman, supervising attorney for the Santa Clara County Public Defender’s office.
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In his statement to a Santa Clara judge, obtained by The Guardian, the predatory swimmer whines about how his crime will keep him from competing in the Olympics, and will derail “the goals that I set out in the first nineteen years of my life”. Persky, in his sentencing, said that he didn’t think Turner’s “lack of complete acquiescence to the verdict should count against him”. A petition to remove Persky from the bench in Santa Clara County has received almost 600,000 signatures.
