Stanford Swimmer Who Raped Unconscious Woman Gets Short Sentence Because Jail Would Have a ‘Severe Impact on Him’

bougabouga · 2016-06-04T03:31:40+00:00

Isn't the whole point of jails to have a severe impact on criminals?

Fuck this scumbag.

TBFProgrammer · 2016-06-04T05:10:20+00:00

I take it your expectations haven't exactly been lived up to. Care to retract your misleading remarks?

This is what happens when judges set a biased precedent intended to benefit one group. Judicial precedents, you see, apply to everyone. In this case, the claim that the impact of sentencing women to jail would have too severe on impact on them is simply being applied to a man.

Let me be very clear, the sentence is way too lenient for an assault charge where no provocation exists. This convicted criminal should most definitely should be in jail for several years at least. All that the preceding paragraph exists to state is the mechanism through which this lack of justice came to pass.

lporiginalg · 2016-06-04T04:18:03+00:00

Too lenient.

clybourn · 2016-06-04T04:58:21+00:00

He was sentenced as though he's a woman.

bettingdog000 · 2016-06-04T15:31:55+00:00

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.

had he been black he would be hung!!!!!!

this is bullshit, he was caught in the act. how does he get off really?

never_said_that · 2016-06-04T19:06:23+00:00

6 months is a disgusting sentence. If someone is guilty of rape they should spend a large chunk of their live in prison.

mikesteane · 2016-06-04T06:42:44+00:00

No better (or worse for that matter) than all those cases of women getting absurdly light sentences. The punishment does not fit the crime here.

ABC_Florida · 2016-06-04T09:48:25+00:00

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Malcolm1276 · 2016-06-04T03:45:43+00:00

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Mens-Advocate · 2016-06-04T18:10:09+00:00

Hold on a moment. Media report court cases sloppily, emotionally, and sensationally.
The poster Necro pointed out Brock Allen Turner did not penetrate with his penis, but a finger. The articles, if read carefully, call it a "foreign object". They also state he, as well as the victim, had a blood-alcohol level a multiple of the legal number for intoxicated.
One article makes it clear they met at a party, left, lay down together - and that he may not even have realised she had passed out:
https://archive.is/7WcAm
I also question the "intent" charge of which he was convicted, which essentially assumes he would have gone on to penetrate her with his penis when he did not actually do so; he might well have stopped once she did not react to his finger-foreplay.
To summarise, an intoxicated male, young and never before in trouble, put a finger in an intoxicated female. That makes the 6-month sentence (followed by probation for how long? also registration for life) seem more reasonable. That MRAs rushed to judgment shows how easily media can manipulate both wording and emotions.
Edit: I have just noticed Civil's citation of her admission that - sometime earlier - he had asked permission to insert a finger, and she'd said yes. That, combined with the fact that both were intoxicated, might form the basis of an argument that he committed no crime at all. (He might still be a jerk.)
In other words, is this new feminist law? Does later drunkenness now negate earlier, explicit consent?

2016-06-04T18:52:36+00:00

I actually read several different articles on this guy. Some of the other articles stated that her blood alcohol limit was 3 times the limit and his was twice the limit. So they were both pretty drunk at the time. He stated she consented. They said she was to drunk to consent. They were both drunk at the time. I think he should not have been convicted at all and the low sentence probably reflects the ambiguity of the case. This is the sort of case that has been discussed here before. If two drunk people hook up than who is the rapist? Also it is important to remember, even though the title implies otherwise, HE WAS NOT CONVICTED OF RAPING ANYONE.

oshmkufa2010 · 2016-06-04T20:54:29+00:00

I don't see why so many of you have such a problem with this. Yes, it does kinda suck that they'd let a rapist basically go free with such a slap on the wrist, but that's exactly how they've been treating female rapists and other female criminals all along. Society needs a bitch slap of wisdom. If you ask me, just let them swallow their medicine for once. Maybe then they'll finally realise that letting criminals off the hook to spare their feelings IS NOT COOL. Of course it'll need some female suffering to finally arrive in people's heads, but... Well, this fight has been fought on the backs of innocent men nobody cared for long enough.

ThePigmanAgain · 2016-06-05T01:55:35+00:00

Yes, this is a bad thing. But let's not forget that it is an exception -- most people who get such lenient treatment are women, not men.

Leinadro · 2016-06-06T16:30:46+00:00

Bullshit.

rg57 · 2016-06-04T16:45:32+00:00

You took away my worth, my privacy, my energy, my time, my safety, my intimacy, my confidence, my own voice

That just sounds like BS to me. She got herself drunk out of her mind. Was he also seriously drunk? We're not told.

She cannot say whether she consented or not. All we have is that someone saw them, when she appeared to be unconscious.

This is why I say that all sexual assault laws ought to be based on actual harm, not taboo. There appears to be no evidence of any harm whatsoever in this case. Get out of my court.

NecroDance123 · 2016-06-04T09:08:03+00:00

I didn't even realize that the legal definition of rape was recently changed (a few years ago). I thought this guy actually stuck his dick in some unconscious girl, but instead he just fingered her (which is now legally rape). Still despicable, but does fingering seriously deserve the asking sentence of 6+ years? I feel like there is a difference between sex and sticking your hands down someone's pants. Glad he was charged with intent to rape as well though, because we pretty much knew where this was heading.

AtomicBLB · 2016-06-04T13:21:37+00:00

I just saw this post on the front page. I am conflicted because I really want this piece of human filth to be punished more. However he got the slap on a wrist in which I am accustomed to seeing the female equivalent get in these types of crimes.

I just want sexual assault and rape to be punished equally, without a gendered lens. Person A commits wrongful sexual act against person B. Just punish them the same. Nothing else matters at all. Feelings, parenthood, their background, their potential, etc shouldn't matter.

Emimagick · 2016-06-04T16:59:37+00:00

Feminists scream rape culture because of men like this who get lighter sentences due to daddy's money. I've seen this posted by three different feminists on my FB today. It's not rape culture. It's one incident where a man got the same sentence a woman would have anyway. If they think jail would affect him harshly, good. That's the point of jail. He's the kind of person who needs to be incarcerated if proven guilty, and it's men like him who force other men to deal with false rape accusations and being 'guilty until proven innocent'.

2016-06-04T17:27:19+00:00

The comments on feminism sub range from sexist to racist

ThePigmanAgain · 2016-06-04T05:02:32+00:00

Given such leniency, i can only assume that he identifies as a woman.

Anonymous--Rex · 2016-06-04T16:27:53+00:00

While six months strikes me as too short, it's nice to see this level of concern actually be applied to a male. I'm typically not a fan of first-time offenses ruining people's lives, but this type of sentence is also not enough of a deterrent. I suppose good sentencing wouldn't be newsworthy, though.

Deansdale · 2016-06-04T06:36:19+00:00

The details are sparse but I bet his story is that the girl left the pub to have sex with him of her own accord and this turned into a "rape" only because the law treats women like children.

Also, I find the testimony of the victim laughable:

You took away my worth, my privacy, my energy, my time, my safety, my intimacy, my confidence, my own voice

That was you drinking yourself to a coma you cretin. Passing out behind a dumpster means you're worthless anyways, regardless of what happens to you afterwards. If he did indeed rape you it just means he's worthless as well.

Edit: you assclowns can downvote me all you want, in another article you can read I was right:

Prosecutors say Turner met the woman, who is not a student, at a party on campus, then assaulted her after she passed out from drinking.

It's not like he wandered around in an alley, found an unconscious women and started fucking her - they got acquainted at a party and then left the place together.

2016-06-04T22:03:25+00:00

And the male feminist brigade invades yet again...

Title	Stanford Swimmer Who Raped Unconscious Woman Gets Short Sentence Because Jail Would Have a ‘Severe Impact on Him’
Author	bartink
Upvotes	17
Comments	43
Date	June 4, 2016 3:25 AM UTC (10 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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