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This is horrible. A perpetuation of the rape culture that supposedly does not exist. This judge is negligent and needs to leave the bench.[hr]
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By Dayna Evans - June 3, 2016 11:41 a.m.
Brock Allen Turner, the former Stanford swimmer who was discovered raping an unconscious woman behind a dumpster on campus in January of last year, will be sentenced to six months in county jail and probation. Prosecutors had recommended that Turner receive a sentence of six years, but judge Aaron Persky determined that Turner's age 20 and lack of criminal history warranted him a much shorter sentence.
A prison sentence would have a severe impact on him," Persky said at Turner's sentencing on Thursday. "I think he will not be a danger to others." Meanwhile, the 23-year-old victim in the rape case, who had had a blood-alcohol level three times the legal limit at the time of the rape and who had no memory of the attack, gave important testimony at the trial.
"You took away my worth, my privacy, my energy, my time, my safety, my intimacy, my confidence, my own voice, until today," she said, reportedly directly to Turner. "I am a human being who has been irreversibly hurt." And yet it's Turner who would be severely impacted in his sentencing? Right.
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Silver_Witch
(1,820 posts)A Little Weird
(1,754 posts)He was caught in the act raping a woman and he gets 6 months. There is no justice in this world.
FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)Katie J.M. Baker
BuzzFeed News Reporter
posted on Jun. 3, 2016, at 4:17 p.m.
On January 17th, 2015, it was a quiet Saturday night at home. My dad made some dinner and I sat at the table with my younger sister who was visiting for the weekend. I was working full time and it was approaching my bed time. I planned to stay at home by myself, watch some TV and read, while she went to a party with her friends. Then, I decided it was my only night with her, I had nothing better to do, so why not, theres a dumb party ten minutes from my house, I would go, dance like a fool, and embarrass my younger sister. On the way there, I joked that undergrad guys would have braces. My sister teased me for wearing a beige cardigan to a frat party like a librarian. I called myself big mama, because I knew Id be the oldest one there. I made silly faces, let my guard down, and drank liquor too fast not factoring in that my tolerance had significantly lowered since college.
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. I still remember the feeling of my hands touching my skin and grabbing nothing. I looked down and there was nothing. The thin piece of fabric, the only thing between my vagina and anything else, was missing and everything inside me was silenced. I still dont have words for that feeling. In order to keep breathing, I thought maybe the policemen used scissors to cut them off for evidence.
Then, I felt pine needles scratching the back of my neck and started pulling them out my hair. I thought maybe, the pine needles had fallen from a tree onto my head. My brain was talking my gut into not collapsing. Because my gut was saying, help me, help me.
I shuffled from room to room with a blanket wrapped around me, pine needles trailing behind me, I left a little pile in every room I sat in. I was asked to sign papers that said Rape Victim and I thought something has really happened. My clothes were confiscated and I stood naked while the nurses held a ruler to various abrasions on my body and photographed them. The three of us worked to comb the pine needles out of my hair, six hands to fill one paper bag. To calm me down, they said its just the flora and fauna, flora and fauna. I had multiple swabs inserted into my vagina and anus, needles for shots, pills, had a Nikon pointed right into my spread legs. I had long, pointed beaks inside me and had my vagina smeared with cold, blue paint to check for abrasions.
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Naturally, there are dipshits in some comments section saying she is partially, if not completely responsible.
Hopefully she can feel the love and respect and healing thoughts coming from the part of our species who are NOT sick sub-humans.
Orrex
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This suggests amazing force of will and a strength of character that won't cause her to be reduced to this coddled, over-privileged asshole's target.
She surpasses him in every way, and it's a gross failure of the justice system that the judge care more about the attacker's well-being than about justice.
Norman Conch Quest
(64 posts)prison was kinda sorta SUPPOSED to have a severe impact!
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)One pointy-toed gothgirl boot straight to the junk, as hard as I can kick (and as a pretty damn serious cyclist, that's kinda hard).
Baitball Blogger
(46,705 posts)FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)This s**t needs to come to an immediate screeching halt.
A poor person, or a non-white doing the same thing would be buried under the jail, while this privileged piece of trash walks almost free with less time than someone selling individual cigarettes.
athena
(4,187 posts)It's amazing that the judge thinks the criminal's life is more valuable than the life of his victim. The poor young woman will probably need therapy for years to get over this, while the criminal goes on to destroy more lives.
Cassiopeia
(2,603 posts)I would be waiting outside of the prison on his release day so he could finish his term properly.
This judge deserves time for handing down such a light sentence.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I hope Karma comes back for the both of them. Disgusting pigs.
Skittles
(153,160 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)Iggo
(47,552 posts)I mean "We".
Rex
(65,616 posts)We are accepting affluenza as an actual excuse for criminal activity in normal society.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)Aaron is campaigning for re-election in the Santa Clara County Election on Tuesday June 7, 2016. A petition called "Santa Clara, vote Rape Judge OUT" was created to encourage people to come out and vote against him for his poor handling of the Brock Turner case.
Just like Turner - Persky should not be able to hand down another sentence that would rape a victim twice!
"You took away my worth, my privacy, my energy, my time, my safety, my intimacy, my confidence, my own voice, until today," she said, reportedly directly to Turner. "I am a human being who has been irreversibly hurt." And yet it's Turner who would be severely impacted in his sentencing? Right.
This one is on you California...you have the power to NOT reelect this poor excuse for a man!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)rladdi
(581 posts)Initech
(100,070 posts)Actorvist
(29 posts)tho then again, I bet he's doing this to lower the likelihood of appeals given the kid's rich parents.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Would that be justice or "unusual punishment", prohibited by the U.S. Constitution?
VA_Jill
(9,966 posts)Only in a women's prison.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)He was raped every day for the 3 years he was locked up.
FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)I don't joke about prison rape. I don't say anyone deserves it, I don't feel any justice is served by it.
But he still deserves to be in prison for at least a decade. And the judge needs to be removed from the bench. That was a horribly inadequate sentence.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)But I don't always hear it given as a reason why someone shouldn't have to go to prison (and a 6 month sentence would be served in a county jail rather than a state prison.)
I've heard this before - keep the sentence under a year so someone can do the sentence in the county jail and not be sent to prison where they might be raped. It's always a way to keep white people out of prison. A young black man would go to prison for a long time for far, far less than this. But this guy actually commits rape and is kept out of prison because he might be raped.
We need to do something about rape in prison, but that's an separate issue.
cui bono
(19,926 posts)JI7
(89,249 posts)has done it before .
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Put a kid in prison with killers and drug dealers and the bad guys will be in fear.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)Why aren't we concerned about the men he'll be locked up with. There are a lot of non-violent criminals in prison. He's actually a violent criminal.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Meanwhile, the GOP has Man Pig running for Leader of the Free World.
VA_Jill
(9,966 posts)to give him a "severe inconvenience".....right where it REALLY HURTS! (sorry, no "kick" emoji)
Bradical79
(4,490 posts)Omaha Steve
(99,628 posts)Depending on local law, get him off the bench.
K&R!
OS
Bad Dog
(2,025 posts)In the UK we had a bunch of ridiculous judgements made my doddery old judges with no sense of what's acceptable today. Judge Aaron Persky doesn't even have that as a defence. He should be kicked off the bench.
FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)Lazy Daisy
(928 posts)this was his ONLY time doing this? No criminal history my ass. I'd bet the bank this is something he does without conscience.
catchnrelease
(1,945 posts)This judge is a Stanford alumni and was also an athlete there, so there has been speculation that he is biased towards the rapist, maybe he can even relate to that kind of behavior.
I read her whole statement yesterday and it is really powerful, not to mention heartbreaking.
JI7
(89,249 posts)that's why he can relate to the rapist and feels so bad for him.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,340 posts)But, of course, such a listing might impact our young friend when he seeks employment.
mythology
(9,527 posts)jg10003
(976 posts)JI7
(89,249 posts)leftyladyfrommo
(18,868 posts)He said his son shouldn't have to pay a long prison term for 20 minutes of action.
Good God. No wonder that kid is like he is.
FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)It only takes seconds to shoot someone.
Dude, your son committed what a friend of mine calls "Soul Murder".
Is that going to fuck up his life? Good! Rapists need their life to be seriously fucked up in exchange for fucking up hers.
Disgusting enabling of a sociopath.
JCMach1
(27,558 posts)From his bio... seriously, WTF
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)proverbialwisdom
(4,959 posts)King: Brock Turner and Cory Batey, two college athletes who raped unconscious women, show how race and privilege affect sentences
By Shaun King
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Updated: Tuesday, June 7, 2016, 5:42 PM
When Cory Batey was a 19-year-old standout football player at Vanderbilt, he raped an unconscious woman. The ample evidence, including security cameras showing the unconscious woman being carried into a dorm room and cellphone photos and videos of the sexual assault, was clear Cory Batey sexually assaulted the woman. In April, a jury found Batey guilty of three felony counts including aggravated rape and two counts of aggravated sexual battery.
He was immediately remanded into custody and must serve a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 to 25 years in prison.
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