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It's not  ONLY that what he did was so appalling.  It's ALL the  ingredients of this story.  His letter.  His dad's  letter.  His  friend's  statement.  All minimizing and dodging responsibility.  The  failure of the Judge in sentencing.  Taken all together, this case really distills the  disregard our society shows for rape victims and the privilege of  white males and athletes.   "20  minutes of action"  indeed.

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His own letter showed a lot more personal responsibility than Emily Doe's letter did. He's now a convicted criminal on the sex offender registry, she's officially the wounded victim who is waiting for him to pay her back some day. [b] Brock's life has turned into a living nightmare.  He never wants to drink again. Ever.  He has lost everything over this.  Things went from being fun to ruined in a night.  Quite literally.  He made a horrible, terrible mistake that has taken away everything that he has worked for.  He is remorseful for it.  If he could take back everything that he did that night.  If he could unmeet Emily Doe - he would do it.
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His parents and friends are still reeling from what has happened to this promising young man.  How can someone so smart and funny and carefree and capable do something so stupid and hurtful?  Not just to Emily Doe but to himself.  Why did this happen?  Why?

The more I read about this case the more I understand the relatively light sentencing suggestion from the PO.

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Of course, it was a horrible, terrible mistake, and has really harmed this young man. No doubt about that at all.  But this is so only because he was caught, only because he was prosecuted, only because he is now a registered sex offender, only because he is now banned from swimming, only because of the social media backlash, only because a rich white entitled top athlete Ivy college male student did not expect that he could not get away with this.  Because if he was not a white man there would have not been any apologist.

Thanks to all the words  -  written, spoken, filmed, documented, discussed - before, during and after this case, that was made public - we all got a pretty good idea of not only the case, but also what the actors and audience of this case ACTUALLY think.  And WHAT  the people in power  - the judge, the lawyer, the defendant's father who could afford the lawyer - ACTUALLY THINK is the problem that spawns people like Brock Allen Turner.

The school counselor and the female friend of Brock who wrote for Brock were also part of the problem  ---   After all, the girl was drunk. probably promiscuous and this guy did not put his penis in her vagina, or mouth or anus, so why the big deal? It was just a fumbling roll in the dirt and pine needles for two hormonal young consenting adults who were sexually promiscuous - we all have been there during our own college, right? People only go to these parties to get drunk and hook up, so why was the girl there in the first place?

Remember the movie "Accused" starring Jodie Foster? The question there was (in my then teen mind at least) will people accept that a promiscuous prostitute who sells her body for sex, can be raped on a pinball machine by a hoard of men who she was dancing and flirting with?  The answer was that she was raped if she had said "No".

In this case, the woman was unconscious. She could not even say "No".  She needed to have said an explicit "Yes", which she did not.  I also do not buy the story that at some point she could have been aware of, or participated in "the action" of having a man finger her vagina.  Why? Because no woman wants pine needles and dirt in her vagina during any "action"...so that proves that at no time during the penetration of her vagina she was conscious.

The defence strategy was to vilify the victim,  and frankly if I was a criminal defence lawyer this would have been the classic defence strategy for me too (yeah, lawyers are scum).  So the victim gets victimized again, and her trauma has not ended, but somehow this is more acceptable to the judge?  Maybe, this will teach the defence lawyers to instruct their client to beg forgiveness  and acknowledge the harm they have done to the victim. Because now thanks to social media and the fact that the victim can pen a "victim impact" statement means that the victims are not so voiceless anymore. The ridiculously light sentence was actually the best thing that happened to this victim (sorry nameless victim- I am very hurt for you and I wish you were never raped) because she truly has become the voice of every woman.  If the punishment would have been harsher, if the judge had understood what the cronyism means (or appearance of it), it would have been a different outcome in the court of public opinion.

So, I should be sorry that the little Brock chick is marked with red and every one is peck, peck, pecking at him - but I cannot.  Mainly because maybe that image of Brock chick being pecked is what is needed to deter some men, and maybe this is what is needed for some parents to change how they raise their son so that they do not become entitled rapists.

- mom of two daughters and two sons.

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