Brock Turner

Brock Allen Turner is a convicted rapist and former student at Stanford University, where he was on the swim team. He is a 2014 graduate of Oakwood High School in Dayton, Ohio where he was a three-time All-American swimmer. His assault on an unconscious 22-year-old woman behind a dumpster on the Stanford Campus on January 18, 2015 made national and international news.
Turner was arrested Jan. 18, 2015, after two graduate students found him on top of an unconscious woman outside Kappa Alpha fraternity at approximately 1 a.m. Turner later voluntarily withdrew from Stanford. On June 2, 2016, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky sentenced Turner to six months in county jail followed by three years of formal probation. He must also register as a sex offender and participate in a sex offender rehabilitation program.
On June 3, 2016, Palo Alto Online reporter Elena Kadvany and Buzzfeed reporter Katie J.M. Baker published the full 7,138-word victim-impact statement from the woman whom Turner was convicted of sexually assaulting, known as "Emily Doe." The statement also detailed the experience Ms. Doe had being treated at the hospital for sexual assault: "I had multiple swabs inserted into my vagina and anus, needles for shots, pills, had a nikon pointed right into my spread legs. I had long, pointed beaks inside me and had my vagina smeared with cold, blue paint to check for abrasions." The statement also detailed the effect the assault had on Ms. Doe's ability to remain in her full-time job, which she left after the assault "because continuing day to day was not possible." and was picked up by national and international media including the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Time.com, San Mateo Mercury News, Cosmopolitan and the UK's Daily Mail. On Reddit, a user highlighted "the ten most powerful quotes that stand out to me, personally, and highlight what every woman who has been raped and tries to file a report goes through." On Twitter the statement went viral, with Ms. Doe's opening line, "You don’t know me, but you’ve been inside me, and that’s why we’re here today" tweeted hundreds of times, including by MTV News reporter Jamil Smith, MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes, author Jessica Valenti, Canadian journalist Sarah Boesveld, and Vox.com reporter Elizabeth Plank.

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