But Dan Turner complained that his son’s life had been ruined for “20 minutes of action”.
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So where do we go with our rage?
Pavlovitz’s letter declares that the former Stanford swimmer is not a victim.
“The probation officer’s recommendation of a year or less in county jail is a soft time-out, a mockery of the seriousness of his assaults, an insult to me and all women”.
A critical aspect of that progress, however, is getting lost amidst the fury.
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We can’t tolerate a system or a culture that makes excuses for sexual assault and other crimes against women.
Two Swedish doctoral students at Stanford University who stopped fellow student Brock Turner, 20, in the process of raping an incapacitated female student, 22, outside of a frat party a year ago are being hailed as heroes.
And I am finally at a point that I don’t even care, because I can no longer take reading the sheer ignorance that happens around this subject.
“In US law, there is an assumption that one is innocent until proven guilty”, she says. His guilt did not depend on him knowing the exact second that I became unconscious, that is never what this was about. I should have never been touched in the first place.
“Living more than 2,000 miles from home, I looked to the guys on my swim team as family and tried to replicate their values in how they approached college life”, he wrote.
Convicted rapist Brock Turner leaving court. “I wanted to take off my body like a jacket and leave it at the hospital with everything else”. A video featuring student-athletes talking about the issue was screened for freshmen attending campus orientation sessions, where students also heard the provost pledge that perpetrators would be held accountable and received brochures informing them or their rights and responsibilities as members of the Cardinal community. She wrote that she was told one of the men was crying because he was so upset over what he saw and the state she was in. When you are eighteen in this country you can go to war.
“What we need to do is replace Judge Persky with a judge who understands sexual violence against young women and wants to keep them safe on college campuses”, Dauber said.
So what’s stopping us?
Rasmussen said she has never condoned the rape. “To me it is unique in its form and comes as close as you can possibly get to putting words on an experience that words cannot describe”.
“To be honest, I don’t give a damn and if his victim was your daughter I’m quite sure you wouldn’t either”, John Pavlovitz wrote.
Second, you can take action of your own.
In a statement released by Santa Clara County deputy district attorney Alaleh Kianerci to CNN, the woman said that in addition to wanting to protect her privacy, she could better represent all woman if her name and image were not known. By definition rape is not the absence of promiscuity, rape is the absence of consent, and it perturbs me deeply that he can’t even see that distinction.
Third, you don’t have to do this alone, nor should you. One man alone is often just as vulnerable as one woman alone. Because he probably is in many ways. The latter two offenses are classified as rape by the Justice Department.
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The sentencing, and comments from Mr Turner’s father who is quoted as saying his son was paying a “steep price” for “20 minutes of action out of his 20 plus years of life” has led to outrage regarding the case.
