Students to show support for victim at Stanford graduation

Scratch that. Like anybody with a conscience, I have been outraged by the recent story about a rape case at Stanford University. The aim is to strike a blow against a culture on college campuses that they say discourages victims of sexual assault from coming forward. The judge was re-elected in an unopposed election five days after Turner’s sentencing.

The officer cited numerous factors affecting her recommendation of probation, including Turner’s lack of criminal history, his youth (Turner is 20) and the victim’s wishes.

Brock Turner and his father Dan Turner in court. He wins state titles in several freestyle events.

An exterior of Oakwood High School is seen in Oakwood, Ohio Thursday June 9, 2016. “In this a year ago and a half, I have experienced some of the lowest points of my entire life; I have felt more sadness, guilt, and anger than I have ever felt”, she said in an excerpt from the letter on ABC News.

Mackenzie Alexis Yaryura, a public policy major from Florida, echoed the sentiment, saying, “I haven’t heard of anyone who’s had a positive experience with the Title IX office”. The court documents depict him as a regular drinker and hard drug user, with a penchant for making unwanted advances to women. “And so we are going to recall him, and we’re going to replace him with someone who does”. Turner was wearing a bright orange tuxedo, had a fake driver’s license and smelled of alcohol. He receives a ticket for being a minor in possession of alcohol.

“Do you think I could buy some wax so we could do some dabs?” he texted to a friend in 2014. He smoked marijuana and dabs of butane hash oil, known as “wax”. The friend later tells police Turner “creeped her out” and was “grabby” with her because he was placing his hands on her waist, stomach and thigh while they were dancing.

Two students who happened upon the scene said the woman, now 23, appeared unconscious and held Turner for police.

The victim delivered a heart-wrenching statement directly to her assailant in the packed courtroom in Palo Alto, California.

But light sentences like this one that treat rape as “action” certainly are. He pleaded not guilty.

— October 7, 2015 — A judge tosses out the rape charges and Turner is ordered to stand trial on the remaining counts.

Turner was convicted this year of three felony counts of sexual assault for a January 2015 incident when he left a party at the Kappa Alpha fraternity house very drunk and attacked a woman he had met at the party, who was passed out behind a dumpster.

The District Attorney’s Office has said there is no legal grounds to challenge Turner’s sentence. As recounted by the victim’s own letter that was read aloud in court, the younger sister’s visit was the reason they had attended the party where Jane Doe 1 was eventually raped.

“I know what a broken heart feels like”, she continued. He says he was an “inexperienced drinker and party goer”.

Persky has declined to comment, noting the case remains active as Turner has appealed his conviction. You didn’t even stop when I was unconscious anyway!

A steep price for “20 minutes of action?” Armstrong noted that Turner was expelled from Stanford, effectively ending an elite and promising swimming career.

Now, another statement from Turner’s mother Carleen Turner to Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky has emerged, reported Good Morning America on Friday. He is scheduled to be released on September 2.

His six-months in jail sentence, which also orders him to register as a sex offender for life, touched off an emotional national debate about leniency and campus sexual assault and sparked outrage with critics collecting thousands of signatures to demand trial Judge Aaron Persky be removed from the bench.

By Monday evening, more than 100,000 people had signed a Change.org petition demanding Judge Persky’s recall.