Brock Turner Term Papers

On January 18, 2015, two graduate students were biking at Stanford University when they saw a man raping an unconscious, half-naked woman behind a dumpster. The man saw the bikers and attempted to run away, but the bikers chased him down and tackled him. They called the police and the man was arrested. The man was Brock Turner, a freshman swimmer at Stanford University. He was intoxicated but told police he remembered everything. Meanwhile, his victim remained unconscious until she was taken to the hospital. On January 27, 2015 Brock Turner was arrested and charged with rape of an intoxicated person, rape of an unconscious person, sexual penetration by a foreign object of an unconscious person, sexual penetration by a foreign object of an intoxicated

By focusing on how difficult everything has been for Turner, his supporters have overlooked the deeper problem of how much trauma his victim had experienced and how her life will never be the same. His victim was unconscious during the attack and did not know the details of what happened to her until she read it online. In a letter she read during the trial, his unnamed victim wrote, “And then, at the bottom of the article, after I learned about the graphic details of my own sexual assault, the article listed his swimming times.” Basically she is saying how shocking it was that after stating the horrific things Brock Turner had done to her, they commemorate his athletic abilities as if that somehow erased what he did. Turner’s father acted as though the assault was completely insignificant and unworthy of such a harsh punishment for his son. Yet a sober analysis of the matter reveals that the victim is important and the fact that Brock Turner sexually assaulted her should not be disregarded just because he was a great student and athlete. Dan Turner blames the partying culture of college for his son’s behavior but in reality, there is no excuse for sexual

They both overlooked the victim and how much she suffered and will continue to suffer for the rest of her life. She was taken advantage of while completely unconscious, extensively examined in a hospital all night, blamed for the attack, and finally forced to go through a long trial where many discussed how great of a person her attacker was. She described this in her letter to the court, “He has done irreversible damage to me and my family during the trial and we have sat silently, listening. . .” Basically she is saying that both her and her family had to listen and suffer throughout the entire