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“You don’t know me, but you’ve been inside me, and that’s why we’re here today,” she read in court. She then described how she decided to attend a party so she could spend time with her younger sister.
“I made silly faces, let my guard down, and drank liquor too fast not factoring in that my tolerance had significantly lowered since college,” she said. “The next thing I remember I was in a gurney in a hallway. I had dried blood and bandages on the backs of my hands and elbow. I thought maybe I had fallen and was in an admin office on campus. I was very calm and wondering where my sister was. A deputy explained I had been assaulted. I still remained calm, assured he was speaking to the wrong person. I knew no one at this party. When I was finally allowed to use the restroom, I pulled down the hospital pants they had given me, went to pull down my underwear, and felt nothing.”
She described in painful detail how the hospital staff documented her assault with probes and swabs, “shots, pills, had a Nikon pointed right into my spread legs. …
“I wanted to take off my body like a jacket and leave it at the hospital with everything else.”
She described Turner as a predator picking off “the wounded antelope of the herd, completely alone and vulnerable, physically unable to fend for myself. …”
She added: “Sometimes I think, if I hadn’t gone, then this never would’ve happened. But then I realized, it would have happened, just to somebody else. You were about to enter four years of access to drunk girls and parties, and if this is the foot you started off on, then it is right you did not continue.”
“You do not get to shrug your shoulders and be confused anymore,” she said of his conviction. “You have been convicted of violating me with malicious intent, and all you can admit to is consuming alcohol. Do not talk about the sad way your life was upturned because alcohol made you do bad things.”
Well... She's certainly poetic. There's such a culture of victim-hood though, that' I'm inclined to believe that she's at least exaggerating. She got drunk at a college party, and woke up injured after having sexual-intercourse. Both were drunk, with little memory of what happened, but our sexist laws put the male at blame. Where's her responsibility? You get to be a fragile creature, in need of protection because of your sex; or you get to be an equal member of society, with equal rights, and equal responsibilities. You shouldn't be allowed to alternate between these roles, to be a delicate flower at the mercy of your environment when it's convenient for you.
“A prison sentence would have a severe impact on him. … I think he will not be a danger to others,” the judge said, citing Turner’s youth and lack of criminal record"
Criminal record should have no impact on verdict or sentence, and sentencing needs to be taken out of the hands of judges, and put into the hands of the same jury that decides the verdict. There's too much bias at play here, too much power put in the hands of one person, too much autonomy.
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[–] selpai 1 point 4 points 5 points (+5|-1) ago (edited ago)
Well... She's certainly poetic. There's such a culture of victim-hood though, that' I'm inclined to believe that she's at least exaggerating. She got drunk at a college party, and woke up injured after having sexual-intercourse. Both were drunk, with little memory of what happened, but our sexist laws put the male at blame. Where's her responsibility? You get to be a fragile creature, in need of protection because of your sex; or you get to be an equal member of society, with equal rights, and equal responsibilities. You shouldn't be allowed to alternate between these roles, to be a delicate flower at the mercy of your environment when it's convenient for you.
Criminal record should have no impact on verdict or sentence, and sentencing needs to be taken out of the hands of judges, and put into the hands of the same jury that decides the verdict. There's too much bias at play here, too much power put in the hands of one person, too much autonomy.