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Tuesday, 7 June 2016

Outrage As Versity Student Who Raped Unconscious Woman Got Light Sentence



After former Stanford University swimmer was sentenced to six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman on campus and the victim's emotional letter to her attacker went viral, the assault case made waves on social media, with some questioning why the former Stanford student received so little jail time.

In an emotional letter read in court during sentencing, the victim, who is not being identified, recounted the moment she showered at the hospital after she was assaulted by then-freshman Brock Turner behind a Stanford dumpster in January 2015.

"I stood there examining my body beneath the stream of water and decided, I don't want my body anymore. I was terrified of it, I didn't know what had been in it, if it had been contaminated, who had touched it," she said. "I wanted to take off my body like a jacket and leave it at the hospital with everything else."

Turner, 20, was sentenced Thursday to six months in Santa Clara County Jail by Judge Aaron Persky. A jury found him guilty in March of three felony charges: assault with intent to commit rape of an intoxicated/unconscious person, penetration of an intoxicated person and penetration of an unconscious person.


ABC news

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