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This January 2015 booking photo released by the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office shows Brock Turner.
This January 2015 booking photo released by the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office shows Brock Turner. The former Stanford University swimmer was sentenced last week to six months in jail and three years' probation for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, sparking outrage from critics who say Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky was too lenient on a privileged athlete from a top-tier swimming program. (Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office via AP)
SAN FRANCISCO >> A former Stanford University swimmer whose six-month sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman ignited widespread outrage will leave jail three months early.
Online inmate records show 20-year-old Brock Turner is expected to be released from the Santa Clara County jail on Sept. 2. He was booked June 2.
County jail inmates serve 50 percent of their sentences if they keep a clean disciplinary record. Calls to the county Department of Correction weren’t immediately returned Thursday.
Turner of Dayton, Ohio, was convicted of attacking the woman he met at a fraternity party in January 2015 and was sentenced last week to six months in jail and three years’ probation.
The sentence triggered criticism that a star athlete from a privileged background had gotten special treatment. Prosecutors had asked for six years in prison.
Meanwhile, Vice President Joe Biden wrote an open letter to the woman who was sexually assaulted after an emotional message she read to her attacker in court gained widespread attention.
Biden, who wrote the 1994 Violence Against Women Act and is involved in the White House’s “It’s On Us” campaign against campus sexual assault, sent the letter to BuzzFeed News today.
The vice president wrote to the victim: “I do not know your name — but your words are forever seared on my soul.” He says her statement should be required reading, though they’re “words that I wish with all of my heart you never had to write.”
On Wednesday, a high school guidance counselor and a childhood friend of Turner apologized for writing letters of support ahead of his sentencing.
Oakwood High School counselor Kelly Owens of Dayton, Ohio, told her school district that she shouldn’t have gotten involved in the case. She told the judge that Turner was “absolutely undeserving of the outcome” of the trial.
The judge sentenced Turner to six months in jail last week for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, outraging critics who argue the penalty is too light.
A posting Wednesday on a Facebook page that appears to be that of Turner’s friend Leslie Rasmussen said she made a mistake and apologized for not acknowledging the severity of the crime.
This story just keeps getting worse and worse.
only in america……….
his eyes look pretty red in that booking photo. was he stoned?
I think it is more likely that he was crying
she should create a fundme account and use the money to hire a hitman to take that a-hole out.
No….what she should do is create a gofundme account and sue him in civil court.
yeah but taking him out would be more fun.
🙂
Unbelievable. And, that “high school counselor” needs to find a different line of work.
Find on line the woman’s letter to the swimmer…..heart breaking.
the lawyer to the swimmer is evil the way he tried to twist the Truth…….good thing the two Swedes came forward to help.