An Open Letter to Brock Turner
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An Open Letter to Brock Turner

Every girl's letter to you.

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An Open Letter to Brock Turner
NBC News

Brock Turner,

Let me start this off by letting you know that I have no sympathy for you. I don't care that you were a Stanford swimmer or a potential Olympic athlete or about your swim times because that doesn't cancel out the fact that you're a criminal and a rapist. I, among millions of other young women, will never feed into the lies that the media and your family are trying to feed us with your "nicely dressed, good boy" year book photo and will choose to remember you the way you looked in your mugshot photo.

Just recently, you've been released from jail three months early from your already shortened sentence, which was bullsh** by the way because you deserved those 14 years of jail time. But I guess that since you're rich, white-privileged, and an all-star swimmer that had trouble eating due to your "20 minutes of action", you get to suffer with no consequences what so ever.

So let me fill you in with what happened in the last three months. Drake and Rihanna are dating now, Michael Phelps now has 28 medals, and every two minutes, another American becomes a victim of sexual assault. About 288,820 Americans are raped yearly and you added on to that with the young woman you raped. I guarantee you that that statistic is false because hundreds and maybe even thousands were too embarrassed about what happened to them or the police didn't take their sexual assault cases seriously enough to report them as rape victims.

I pray to God that you somehow truly understand that what you did was wrong on every level when you register yourself as a sex offender for the rest of your life because you clearly don't seem to understand it now after your three months of jail, due to your tweets: "#endhate," "#blessed," "#freedom." Your "20 minutes of action" and short sentence have shown America that rape cases aren't justified to the fullest extent as long as you're a rich and white privileged man because the other girl was simply drinking.

Again, you're not that "All-American swimmer" or Ex-Stanford swimmer anymore. You're Brock Turner, a rapist that unfortunately got extremely lucky. If I have to be glad about anything within this case, I'm glad about the amount of awareness this case has brought on by showing America that the court isn't fair.

You took a woman's body, her voice, her strength, her confidence, her spirit. And we're going to make sure that we get back our justice and righteousness in court.

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