Students show support for victim at Stanford graduation

Stanford University graduating students and women’s rights advocates plan to use the school’s commencement ceremony to again express their anger over the six-month jail sentence given to a former student for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman.

“I have daughters in college myself, and I find it deeply disturbing that a judge like Persky could let a campus predator like Turner off with barely a slap on the wrist”, Shallman said.

The lawmakers also want District Attorney Jeff Rosen to ask an appeals court to overturn the sentence.

Brock Turner, 20, was convicted in March of three offences relating to the January 2015 attack – an attack that was stopped by two Swedish graduate students who happened to be cycling past and saw Turner on the ground outside raping the unconscious and partially naked woman.

This story has corrected to show that Turner could have faced 14 years in prison, not 10.

“His statements during the sentencing show that he does not understand sexual violence”.

The 20-year-old had two months knocked off his sentence for expected good behaviour behind bars, which means he’ll be a free man as early as September 2, according to court documents obtained by The Daily Mail. “That we are looking out for one another”, the woman said in her statement to the court.

“Coming from a small town in OH, I had never really experienced celebrating or partying that involved alcohol”, according to court documents. Crane asked. “I don’t recall”, the young woman said.

(Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office via AP).

In June 2014, Turner texted his sister about “raging” the previous night after spending an hour and a half drinking, according to court documents.

Turner’s father, Dan Turner, has also been criticised for saying his son had paid “a steep price … for 20 minutes of action”.

A Stanford law professor launched a formal campaign to remove Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky from the bench.

UltraViolet, a women’s advocacy group, said it collected more than 824,000 signatures in a symbolic petition urging the judge’s removal, and other groups gathered thousands more that they will deliver to the California Commission on Judicial Performance, the agency that investigates complaints of judicial misconduct and disciplines judges.

Turner is in the process of appealing his conviction as well as moving his three-year probation to his home state of Ohio.