As I might have mentioned, I have an 18-year-old daughter.
Have I written about that? Yeah, I thought so.
Because of this fact, like many parents I have been compelled by the recent story about a rape case at Stanford University. Scratch that. Like anybody with a conscience, I have been outraged by the recent story about a rape case at Stanford University.
Brock Turner, now 20, was a Stanford freshman in January 2015 when he was caught sexually assaulting a woman behind a dumpster. The story garnered national attention last week after Turner, who was convicted of three felonies, was sentenced to six months in jail. California state guidelines called for a minimum two-year sentence; the maximum was 14 years. But Judge Aaron Persky was worried that a long sentence would have a “severe impact” on Turner.
Severe? Let’s let the victim talk about severe. Let’s let the victim talk about being prodded and photographed at a hospital as investigators gathered evidence.
“After a few hours of this, they let me shower,” she said in a statement directed at Turner in court. “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. I wanted to take off my body like a jacket and leave it at the hospital with everything else.”
