13, June 2016 Brock
Turner
Predictably, the Brock Turner sexual-assault case at Stanford University has
ignited public outrage. Turner received a miniscule six months in jail with
help from Stanford alum, former California Governor Grey Davis and favored
treatment from Judge Aaron Persky who is a Stanford fraternity brother of
Turner’s. To
make matters worse Turner, proud of his conquest, uploaded photos of the victim
to his friends. Turner’s father compounded the tragedy by pleading his son’s
crime was only ’20 minutes of action’.
I wonder how the judge would have ruled if the sexual predator
was an African-American. Would the judge be so concerned about the consequences
of his future? Turner’s light sentence speaks volumes about privilege and our
broken criminal justice system.
Sadly, this is symptomatic of our culture that devalues women
and ignores the horrors of sexual violence. The crime should also be a wakeup
call to the dangers of excessive drinking which loosens self-control and often
leads to tragedy. Turner had a blood alcohol level two times the safe limit and
the victim three times the safe limit.
Unscrupulous men are always on the lookout for easy conquests
and it behooves women to protect themselves from predators by limiting their
consumption of alcohol so they are always in complete control of their mental
faculties.
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