Brock Turner Rape

Brock Turner’s release after only three months is not a good message to woman who are being raped or sexually assaulted. Brock Turner, who is a former Stanford swimmer, was released from jail on September 2nd. He only served three months for sexual assaulting an unconscious woman behind a dumpster on January 17th, 2015.

Turner was found guilty of three counts of sexual assault and faced a maximum of 14 years in state prison in March 2016 but in June his sentencing was reduced to six months in county jail and probation.

The woman who was sexually assaulted by Turner wrote a letter to the judge explaining how her whole day went about and how the situation has not only affected her, but her family as well. She was not told to her by the police what had happened to her, she learned about it over the news. She found out what happened to her at the same time as everybody else

Gwendelyn Sawyer, a senior political science major, explained her position on the case, saying, “This type of behavior cannot be tolerated.

The American judicial system should be held to a higher standard and should be strict in cases concerning sexual assault. Without repercussions, this young man is not learning from the experience that wrongful actions have serious consequences.”

Turner and the victim were at the same fraternity house, Kappa Alpha, to attend a party. When the victim’s sister left the party to escort her friend back to her home because her friend was intoxicated, Turner and the woman left the party. The victim does not recall anything about that night. There were two men who were riding their bikes and saw what Turner was doing to the unconscious woman. That is when they approached him and prevented him from doing further damage to the unconscious woman. They approached him, that is when Turner attempted to flee the scene, but one of the men tackled him.

Sophomore Lauren Fitzgerald said, “It rationalizes the idea that money and privilege keeps you out of

penalties.”
There were even politicians such as Joe Biden, who spoke out about the Turner case. He felt disappointed in the culture people, live in because we consistently ask victims the wrong questions. The questions she was asked forced her to try to recall the night she was sexually assaulted. During the trial, she was being asked questions that had to do with not only with her personal life but her love life as well. The defense tried to make it seem as if the former Stanford student did not do anything wrong.
Brock Turner’s went as far as to say that his son shouldn’t be in over because of “20 minutes of action.”
At the time of the attack, the victim was 22, she did not attend Stanford and she had a full-time job. The night she attended the fraternity party, she went because she wanted to spend time with her sister who she rarely saw. At the time of the attack, she had a boyfriend. Even though Brock Turner could have received 14 years in prison, he only got three months in a county prison.