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    Brock Turner's father sparks outrage in rape case

    A six-month jail sentence for Stanford swimmer Brock Turner, who was convicted of sexual assault, has caused public outrage. His father's letter asking the court for leniency has only fanned the flames.

    "His life will never be the one that he dreamed about and worked so hard to achieve," Dan A. Turner wrote in the letter asking for probation. "That is a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of his 20 plus years of life."

    Turner had been convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman behind a dumpster after both he and she attended a fraternity party.

    In addition to the six-month jail term, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky sentenced 20-year-old Brock Turner to three years' probation, ordered him to register as a sex offender and mandated that he complete a sex-offender-management program.

    Turner's father wrote that "the fact that he now has to register as a sexual offender for the rest of his life alters where he can live, visit, work, and how he will be able to interact with people and organizations."

    In an interview with the Washington Post, Santa Clara District Attorney Jeff Rosen criticized Turner's father for comparing a sexual assault to "20 minutes of action." He said that Turner "preyed upon" his victim and displayed violence during the assault.

    Before the sentencing, the victim read the court an impact statement that has gone viral online. She said she had gone to the party to spend time with her sister.

    Addressing Turner, she said: "I made silly faces, let my guard down, and drank liquor too fast not factoring in that my tolerance had significantly lowered since college," she said. "The next thing I remember I was in a gurney in a hallway. I had dried blood and bandages on the backs of my hands and elbow. I thought maybe I had fallen and was in an admin office on campus. I was very calm and wondering where my sister was.

    "A deputy explained I had been assaulted. I still remained calm, assured he was speaking to the wrong person. I knew no one at this party. When I was finally allowed to use the restroom, I pulled down the hospital pants they had given me, went to pull down my underwear, and felt nothing."

    After describing in detail how hospital staff documented her injuries, she said: "I stood there examining my body beneath the stream of water and decided, I don't want my body anymore. I was terrified of it. ... I wanted to take off my body like a jacket and leave it at the hospital with everything else."

    She said Turner picked her off like she was a "wounded antelope of the herd, completely alone and vulnerable, physically unable to fend for myself."

    She told Turner that "you do not get to shrug your shoulders and be confused anymore. You have been convicted of violating me with malicious intent, and all you can admit to is consuming alcohol. Do not talk about the sad way your life was upturned because alcohol made you do bad things."

    She described how she had changed since the assault.

    "My independence, natural joy, gentleness, and steady lifestyle I had been enjoying became distorted beyond recognition. I became closed off, angry, self-deprecating, tired, irritable, empty," she said.

    In the 12-page statement, she said: "While you worry about your shattered reputation, I refrigerated spoons every night so when I woke up, and my eyes were puffy from crying, I would hold the spoons to my eyes to lessen the swelling so that I could see. I showed up an hour late to work every morning, excused myself to cry in the stairwells, I can tell you all the best places in that building to cry where no one can hear you, the pain became so bad that I had to tell my boss I was leaving, I needed time because continuing day to day was not possible. I used my savings to go as far away as I could possibly be."

    In a statement made after the sentence was announced, Rosen said that "the punishment does not fit the crime."

    "The sentence does not factor in the true seriousness of this sexual assault, or the victim's ongoing trauma. Campus rape is no different than off-campus rape. Rape is rape," he said.

    In an editorial, the San Jose Mercury News called the six-month county jail sentence a "slap on the wrist."

    "Brock Turner's six-month jail term for sexual assault of an intoxicated, unconscious woman on the Stanford campus last year is a setback for the movement to take campus rape seriously," the newspaper said. "If Turner's slap on the wrist sentence is a setback, activists can take some comfort that the jurors at the trial in March saw what happened as a very serious crime."

    http://espn.go.com/college-sports/st...minutes-action

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    At least the jury had enough sense to convict him.. This dad, the son/rapist, and the judge who gave him only a six month sentence for this are totally clueless.

    I found also found this:

    Brock Allen Turner, 20, who was discovered raping an unconscious woman on the Stanford University campus in January 2015, got sentenced to six months in jail because a longer sentence would have had a 'severe impact on him', according to the judge.

    Is this judge serious? What about the severe impact the rape had on the woman? Unbelievable. This kind of stuff outrages me.

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    More from different stories:

    The 20-year-old from Dayton, Ohio – who was convicted of three felonies, including assault with intent to rape – faced a maximum of 14 years in prison.

    But Turner was expected to spend only three months of a six-month sentence in county jail after the judge, Aaron Persky, said positive character references and lack of a criminal record had persuaded him to be more lenient. Prison would have a "severe impact on him", the judge said.

    The decision sparked anger on social media, with many quoting from the victim's impact statement, which went viral after being published by international media.

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    The "#NoMugShot" hashtag comes from the fact that they took so long to even post a mugshot of him when initially they said they weren't even going to release it. Here's another story about the mugshot:

    http://jezebel.com/you-wont-see-broc...oon-1780816819

    And another story with more complete statements from the dad to spark further outrage:

    http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...ault-statement

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    Ridiculous sentence.......the father has his own issues and the judge should be in prison for being a disgrace

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    This Judge Sentenced Brock Turner To 6 Months In Jail. Now 200,000 People Want Him Recalled

    “Judge Persky failed to see that the fact that Brock Turner is a white male star athlete at a prestigious university does not entitle him to leniency.”

    In the aftermath of Turner’s sentencing, outrage has been mounting. More than 210,000 people have signed a petition calling for Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky to be removed from the bench over the “lenient” sentence.

    “Judge Persky failed to see that the fact that Brock Turner is a white male star athlete at a prestigious university does not entitle him to leniency,” the Change.org petition stated. “He also failed to send the message that sexual assault is against the law regardless of social class, race, gender or other factors.”


    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...b0ca5c7b4fee75

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    Saw this meme on facebook today:




    This is Brock. Brock raped a girl behind a dumpster. He was caught by two amazing young men who chased and tackled him. The scene horrified them so much one man cried as he described what Brock was doing to the unconscious woman. Brock was found guilty and given a 6 month sentence because according to the judge he's a really good swimmer and a longer sentence might have a "severe impact on him". Brock's dad wants you to stop talking about his son being a rapist because he shouldn't be remembered for getting "20 minutes of action". Brock's swimming times were posted in a story about the rape to show you just how amazing an athlete he is. If you have sons make sure they are not a Brock.

    https://www.facebook.com/WeAreHeavyL...type=3&theater

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    It's crazy.

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    I'm glad there is major backlash.

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    A lot of fallout for those that supported Turner. This is concerning the friend that wrote the letter at the link above:

    Friend Who Wrote Letter Defending Brock Turner Is Being Dropped From All Upcoming Gigs

    After her band Good English was dropped from several upcoming music festivals, Leslie Rasmussen, the childhood friend of Stanford rapist Brock Turner's who wrote a letter to the case's judge blaming Turner's sentence on the need to be "politically correct," released a statement to Brooklyn Vegan apologizing for how her letter may have been misconstrued.

    "Two months ago, I was asked to write a character statement for use in the sentencing phase of Brock Turner's trial," Rasmussen begins:

    I understand that this appeal has now provided an opportunity for people to misconstrue my ideas into a distortion that suggests I sympathize with sex offenses and those who commit them or that I blame the victim involved. Nothing could be farther from the truth, and I apologize for anything my statement has done to suggest that I don't feel enormous sympathy for the victim and her suffering.

    The statement concludes with Rasmussen acknowledging that "Brock Turner was tried and rightfully convicted of sexual assault" and that Turner's "crime caused enormous pain for the victim," but that it is alcohol that is truly the culprit here: "I believe that Brock's character was seriously affected by the alcohol he consumed, and I felt that the court needed to consider this issue during their sentencing deliberations."

    Pitchfork notes that not only did Brooklyn's upcoming Northside festival drop Good English, but that Industry City Distillery also cancelled the band's June 11 show.

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    There were two other Brooklyn locations set to host the band in the upcoming weeks, but Gothamist reports they too have removed Good English from their lineups.

    Good English's site and Facebook page have both been removed, perhaps "due to the overzealous nature of social media" Rasmussen has been dealing with since her letter went public.

    You can read her statement in full here.

    http://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyl...ped-from-gigs/

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