http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37259537
This article is about Stanford swimmer and sex offender, Brock Turner. On Friday morning, he was released from the Santa Clara jail in California. He was sentenced for six months because in 2015 he sexually assaulted an unconscious women outside of a fraternity house. He was freed from the jail after only serving three months in prison, and is now returning to Ohio to live with his parents. He now faces three years of supervised probation, and will be registered as a sex offender for the rest of his life. Most sex offenses, like this one, only live out half of their prison sentence.
Three months in jail is too short for a crime like this, in my opinion. This is a complete violation of another human being, and I'm sure it is scarring for the women involved. I've seen people go to jail for marijuana for longer than this, which doesn't even make sense. Rape is something that is illegal everywhere in the U.S, but marijuana isn't. Yet when someone does do marijuana, they go to jail for longer periods of time sometimes? The whole justice system is broken in this country, and it may never be fixed but I definitely think it's realistic to think that it can be better. Brock Turner committed a crime that should not be acceptable at all, and I'm ashamed to live in a country where someone can get off like that for doing something so evil.
This article is about Stanford swimmer and sex offender, Brock Turner. On Friday morning, he was released from the Santa Clara jail in California. He was sentenced for six months because in 2015 he sexually assaulted an unconscious women outside of a fraternity house. He was freed from the jail after only serving three months in prison, and is now returning to Ohio to live with his parents. He now faces three years of supervised probation, and will be registered as a sex offender for the rest of his life. Most sex offenses, like this one, only live out half of their prison sentence.
Three months in jail is too short for a crime like this, in my opinion. This is a complete violation of another human being, and I'm sure it is scarring for the women involved. I've seen people go to jail for marijuana for longer than this, which doesn't even make sense. Rape is something that is illegal everywhere in the U.S, but marijuana isn't. Yet when someone does do marijuana, they go to jail for longer periods of time sometimes? The whole justice system is broken in this country, and it may never be fixed but I definitely think it's realistic to think that it can be better. Brock Turner committed a crime that should not be acceptable at all, and I'm ashamed to live in a country where someone can get off like that for doing something so evil.
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