I'm Disgusted With The American Justice System
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I'm Disgusted With The American Justice System

If they won't defend us then who will?

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I'm Disgusted With The American Justice System
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Former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner was recently sentenced to six months in jail for raping an unconscious woman. Did you hear that? Let me say it again, Brock Turner raped an unconscious woman and was only sentenced to six months in jail. SIX MONTHS. Six months in jail for dragging a woman behind a dumpster and raping her.

In her statement, this woman described how Turner’s attack left her emotionally scarred. “My independence, natural joy, gentleness, and steady lifestyle I had been enjoying became distorted beyond recognition. I became closed off, angry, self-depreciating, tired, irritable, empty,” she said.

The woman woke up in a hospital where she was told that she may have been sexually assaulted. I can only imagine the things she must have been feeling. No human being, man or woman, should be violated like that.

What’s worse is that he actually tried to run away when two students caught him raping her behind the dumpster. He tried to flee which tells me he knew exactly what he was doing when he assaulted this woman. He claims he was too intoxicated, but even with all the “intoxication” he still knew he shouldn’t have been abusing her if he turned to run away when he was caught red-handed.

This woman is going to be scarred by his abuse of her body for the rest of her life and he’s only going to spend six months in jail. Sure, he’s going to be a registered sex offender and he’ll spend six months in jail (not prison) but other than that, he faces no consequences for his actions.

This is an outrage and I am physically disgusted with our justice system in America. How can we trust our courts and judges to defend and protect us when they do nothing to keep guys like this in check and off the streets?

Rape is rape. Campus rape is still rape. Brock Turner knew exactly what he was doing when he sexually assaulted this woman, this UNCONSCIOUS woman. Six months in jail will teach him nothing! It teaches him that he can get away with basically a slap on the wrist. Why do I live in a world where a man can rape a woman and get off essentially scot-free?

To put the cherry on top though, Turner is now going around and attempting to educate students about the effects and consequences of alcohol. He is the poster child for having no consequences for his actions.

I have three words for you, Brock Turner— How dare you! How dare you rape a woman, face basically no consequences, and then go around and lecture your peers on the consequences of drinking and making bad decisions. You absolutely disgust me.

I’m challenging every one of you to share this article and let the world know what this repulsive human being did to this woman. Share every article you see that has to do with this guy so that America knows what he looks like and what he has done. I can only hope that by sharing every article about Brock Turner that America will share the same detestation for him and our justice system that I now do.

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