If it were my daughter.
Posted on 06/06/2016 10:48:54 AM PDT by Wolfie
Brock Turner's father sparks outrage in rape case
A six-month jail sentence for Stanford swimmer Brock Turner, who was convicted of sexual assault, has caused public outrage. His father's letter asking the court for leniency has only fanned the flames.
"His life will never be the one that he dreamed about and worked so hard to achieve," Dan A. Turner wrote in the letter asking for probation. "That is a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of his 20 plus years of life."
Turner had been convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman behind a dumpster after both he and she attended a fraternity party.
In addition to the six-month jail term, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky sentenced 20-year-old Brock Turner to three years' probation, ordered him to register as a sex offender and mandated that he complete a sex-offender-management program.
Turner's father wrote that "the fact that he now has to register as a sexual offender for the rest of his life alters where he can live, visit, work, and how he will be able to interact with people and organizations."
In an interview with the Washington Post, Santa Clara District Attorney Jeff Rosen criticized Turner's father for comparing a sexual assault to "20 minutes of action." He said that Turner "preyed upon" his victim and displayed violence during the assault.
Before the sentencing, the victim read the court an impact statement that has gone viral online. She said she had gone to the party to spend time with her sister.
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Transfer to Baylor?
There is something really wrong with this rapist.....raping the unconscious is one step away from necrophilia. That’s how sick I think this kid is.
Violent rape, or rape on a drugged and unconscious woman, should be punished with a state-sanctioned necktie party.
and yess, I am serious.
I wish the dad would come over to my house id love to give him 20 minutes of action
>>Sorry for the woman but there are two young lives forever changed here.<<
Don’t take this wrong, but that is one of the dumbest things ever posted at FR. It suggests a moral equivalency worse than the Trump protest violence “blame the victim.”
Both lives are changed but the changes are due to the actions of one of them. Violent rape should result in castration, 100% of the time. THAT is the proper punishment.
The kid has a bright future in the NFL...
>>It does beg the question, how much punishment is too much punishment?
>>>It also begs the question, how much punishment is too little punishment. <<<
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It does neither. It may, however, raise those questions. It is not circular reasoning which is what “begging the question” means.
Very moving letter. He should have done serious time.
He should have converted to Islam. Then “she was asking for it” becomes a valid defense.
He raised a precious snowflake
Yep. A jock. No surprise there.
No wonder his child felt “entitled”. This father is screwed up in his perspective. He’s got to be one of those brain-damaged liberals.
Think about it. It takes one second to pull a trigger and kill someone.
Oh! For one second, a murderer would have to spend YEARS in jail? How fair is that?/z
What a jerk. The only sympathy I have for the boy is that he has a father like that.
Note to Dan:
Your son IS a sex offender and has been judged so in a court of law. Actions have their consequences and your stupid son must pay. I think he should have been sentenced to 20 years in PRISON. You failed to raise the boy to become a gentleman and to obey the law, deal with that!
You’re right, of course. It also doesn’t need the comma there, either. I copied and pasted. I was lazy. :)
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Actions have consequences.
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They are not morally equivalent.
One had the change forced on her. She had no choice.
The other had a choice and chose to use force to impose his will on his victim.
He should get 20 years and she should get a large cash settlement from the criminal son and ignorant father.
What if it was your daughter, wife, mother?
I’ll bet he’s one of those jocks whose Dad has been managing his life and telling him how wonderful he is. I think we’ve all seen this before. Stupid kid thinks he can do no wrong. But having sex with an unconscious girl? That’s just like using date rape drugs. Only especially degraded sickos do that.
If it were my daughter.
Like Bill Cosby.
“Plus she was asking for it”
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