"A steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action"

[Blue_Tires]

Public outrage over the lenient sentencing of a star Stanford swimmer convicted of sexual assault has been compounded by a controversial letter written by the athlete’s father. Brock Turner was convicted in March of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman at a fraternity party in January 2015 at the elite university. He faced up to 14 years in prison. Prosecutors asked for six.

Instead, Turner received only six months in jail and three years of probation after a judge worried that a stiffer sentence would have a “severe impact” on the 20-year-old. The light sentence drew harsh criticism from prosecutors and advocates and prompted widespread fury on social media.

That fury intensified Sunday as critics slammed a letter written by Turner’s father as oblivious, “tone-deaf” and “impossibly offensive.”

“His life will never be the one that he dreamed about and worked so hard to achieve,” Dan A. Turner wrote in a letter arguing that his son should receive probation, not jail time. “That is a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of his 20 plus years of life.”


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/06/06/a-steep-price-to-pay-for-20-minutes-of-action-dad-defends-stanford-sex-offender/

I'm beyond words...

[tonyt53]

1. That guy is sickening.

[onecaliberal]

2. his life will never be.. what is the fucking hell?

[obamanut2012]

3. What rape culture?

The judge only giving the little rich box six months in County, twenty times less than the DA asked for, which still wasn't enough time. Rape should be at least 20 years.

[KamaAina]

10. Several inmates have died in Santa Clara County's main jail in the last few months.

All were black or Hispanic. Something tells me ol' Brock will sashay out of there in six months (if not sooner) with nary a scratch.

[obamanut2012]

15. He will be in his own cell

Like Lindsay Lohan was in LA. I bet money.

[3catwoman3]

4. "Twenty minutes of action."

Holy $h!t!!!

I am dumbfounded, to say the least.

I started to read the letter from his victim, and could not finish it. So raw and agonizing.

I also just watched the brief video of the perp included in the link. As I watched him chomping away at gum in the clip, I found myself thinking that, had I been his attorney, I would have advised him against chewing gum in the courtroom - it looks so casual and disrespectful.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

6. Well, now we know were the kid got his lack of respect for women

[Kelvin Mace]

5. Easy to see where the son learned his contempt for women.

[KamaAina]

7. Mrs. Turner could not be reached for comment.

[Skittles]

30. can you imagine, being married to that, and being the mother of that

UGH

[malthaussen]

8. Hey, dude, pulling a trigger takes less than a second...

... so what should the sentence be if somebody shoots your son?

-- Mal

[SwankyXomb]

9. Rich white jock criminal gets rich white jock sentence

Is anyone really surprised?

[Invincibility]

11. Nope

Sports come before morality in our country sometimes. It's the sad truth.

[KamaAina]

16. Sometimes?

And welcome to DU!

[CrispyQ]

12. He found a passed out woman & his first thought was to rape her, not call for help.

He is a threat to society & belongs behind bars.

[Bettie]

17. My 13 year old son

read the article and said the same thing.

[CrispyQ]

18. Beautiful boy!

[yodermon]

13. Clearly the nut didn't fall far from the tree.

just damn.

[brer cat]

14. It is beyond words, Blue_Tires.

I'm sure the victim didn't pay a steep price or have a severe impact on her life.

These assholes make me sick.

[Sherman A1]

19. And if it had been his daughter who was

The victim of this crime, what would have been his comment?????

[Blue_Tires]

21. +1

I especially liked the part about his son supposedly being *so* distraught he won't eat steak...

[smirkymonkey]

24. What a hardship! The poor boy!

Not one ounce of concern for the woman whose life he has ruined.

[Brickbat]

28. Hard to tell -- some fathers molest and rape their daughters, too.

[realmirage]

20. You can see how his piece of shit Dad is the real problem

I can't stand people who don't hold their children responsible for their actions. That's an essential part of raising a human being.

[Invincibility]

25. Another affluenza case for sure

Spoiled kid never had any consequences and thinks he's allowed to do whatever he wants to people.

[realmirage]

27. That's one thing the 50s era did better than us - teach kids personal responsibility.

Wealthy people especially get lost in the bubble of thinking their family is somehow special or superior.

I watched Braveheart yesterday and after watching how "royalty" behaved I again asked myself how Britain can still respect the "royal" family.. Those people shit on the general public for centuries. Really stuck it to them good. And yet they are still brainwashed to give total respect and millions of welfare dollars to the "royal" family. I put it in quotes because it's all bullshit.

Anyway I could rant all day on what the social class system does to the human brain. But I should probably stop now.

[spanone]

22. well dad, it only takes a fraction of a second to pull a trigger, so why jail time for murder....

some sick logic

[Hula Popper]

23. Put this

pair of sh!t heads to sleep. The world will never miss them.

[Rex]

26. The father and son are gross barbaric animals that exist only to be self-serving.

May they rot in hell.

[meow2u3]

29. Not only should this monster have gotten the book thrown at him

but the father should have gotten serious prison time, too--for being an accessory to a rape because of the way he flipped off the victim and trivialized a brutal sexual assault as "20 minutes of action."

[LibDemAlways]

31. The little shit will still enjoy a cushy life. Daddy will

enlist a golfing buddy to get the kid started on the corporate ladder as a favor, and, in a few years all will be forgotten. Boys will be boys and all that.

People like this have no conscience, but they do have plenty of rich friends, and they stick together.

[Raster]

32. Like father, like son.

[phylny]

33. From The Onion, 2011:

http://www.theonion.com/video/college-basketball-star-heroically-overcomes-tragi-19097

[Blue_Tires]

35. brilliant find...

[Odin2005]

34. That rotten apple didn't fall far from the tree.

[ljm2002]

36. Like father, like son...

...and it is notable that the father did not express any apology to the victim nor concern for her well being. Just concern that his son might experience some serious consequences for a mere "20 minutes of action".

Ugh, ugh, ugh.