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Dear Brock

A letter to Brock Turner

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Dear Brock
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If there is one thing I have taught my little sixteen year old brother growing up, it is that he is to never hurt anybody, to always be kind and to never rape girls. That's just an obvious life understanding though, right? My brother would never hurt a women, or anybody at that. He understands the simple life lesson to not lay hands on other people and so do I. Most people are actually able to comprehend the obvious of that you shouldn't hurt people and you definitely shouldn't ever rape an unconscious drunk girl behind a dumpster. I guess you're an exception though, Brock, because you're a star swimmer and jock who goes to Stanford and thinks he's entitled and better than everybody else.

So, dearest Brock, I hope you get some help because you definitely need it.

An estimated 1 in 5 girls are sexually assault sometime in their college experience and you're part of the reason that number exists. That innocent girl, I'll refer to her as Jane Doe, has become a statistic and it's all your fault. You put your hands on her and now you've hurt her heart and her family and her entire life. Jane did nothing but go out with some friends that night. You took part of her away, then passed it off as "just twenty minutes of action." That's disgusting because you think you're entitled to just stick your penis in anything you want because you're Brock and you're a star swimmer and you're going to do big things.

Then again, you are kind of a disgusting excuse for a human being. I'd call you a man, Brock, but real men don't feel the need to hurt other people. They especially don't feel the need to rape women behind a dumpster while they're drunk and unconscious.

Maybe one day you'll learn that what you did was wrong, but right now, you don't seem to get it. You don't seem to understand that you are at fault and that blaming the victim of your heinous crime is absolutely horrible. When an individual is raped, sexually assaulted, abused, or anything else, it is not their fault. Blaming the person who was hurt shouldn't exist and I'm disappointed in humanity because it's just become normal to so many people. Especially for you, Brock.

You did something wrong, Brock, and you should take responsibility for hurting her. The clothes she was wearing, the amount of alcohol in her system or any other factor of that night shouldn't be the reason you raped her. Self control shouldn't be as hard as you seem to make it.

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