“(Keep in mind that Turner fled the scene of the crime on foot after two passing cyclists witnessed the attack and stopped it.)”

Sure he did! He made poor decisions about partying and alcohol and then it was out of his hands.

One needs to recognize the influence that peer pressure and the attitude of having to fit in can have on someone.

There are definitely exceptions. I could tell you about a cousin of mine who was killed by a drunk driver and that driver got off by claiming he didn’t know Long Island Iced Tea contained alcohol. (His attorney was Robert Shapiro who represented O.J. Simpson.)

Change “drunk raping” to “drunk driving” and change “will have to emotionally deal with the fact that I was raped for the rest of my life” to “I’m in a wheelchair for the rest of my life” and there is no way this guy only gets three months.

That can certainly be considered child abuse, but it no longer counts as a crime against the dog.

I’ll just leave this here.

FTFY

I’ve lost two jobs solely based on the reporting of my case. I wish I never was good at swimming or had the opportunity to attend Stanford, so maybe the newspapers wouldn’t want to write stories about me.

This entire statement reads as if he’s apologizing for puking on her shoes. And really, there is no apology in it, because there is no admission of guilt, because it doesn’t even mention what he did.

Her comment on why she chose to remain anonymous is beautiful and lends even more power to her statement.

I want to demolish the assumption that drinking and partying are what make up a college lifestyle.

I went to UGA during undergrad one of the years we were ranked the #1 party school (nbd) and I spent the absolute drunkest years of my life there. I was blacking out on a weekly basis. To this day, I have a lingering shame that I feel anytime I go back to visit. That being said, I never once got even remotely close to…

2016 America: Where a 12-year old boy is shot and killed by the police for playing with a toy and it’s his fault because he should have “known” that people would see him as a threat, while a full-grown adult who rapes an unconscious woman and tries to flee should only have to endure a couple months of jail because…

If you grow up in this society, you should know that crimes you commit under the influence of a substance are still crimes. If you’re drunk and you plow into someone with your car, you will still be held accountable by the judicial system. The other person’s state of influence doesn’t matter, because they didn’t hurt…

We aren’t “assuming” this women is a victim. We know this woman is victim, because two witnesses discovered her rapist sexually abusing her unconscious body. If you seriously can’t understand that there are no circumstances in which it’s okay to sexually abuse an unconscious person, you are every bit as bad as the…

Duh. So you are saying the eyewitnesses and hospital employees and family of the victim are wrong? Fuck right off with you.

Basically, she’s saying that these 20-something guys aren’t “real” rapists (the dirty/homeless/black/totally-not-blond-and-white bogeymen who grab women walking to their cars at night), oh no... they’re just some softheaded fools who can’t help but be swayed by the hard partying lifestyle the universities supposedly…

You can’t understand anything she’s saying because she’s not making any sense, period. It’s not you. This girl just has really gross, privileged views on rape and doesn’t know how to form sentences that make logical sense.

“Rape on campuses isn’t always because people are rapists.”