stanford rape case
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Do All of Your Clothes Have To Be Off for It To Be Considered Rape?
The state of California has laws that prohibit the unwanted touching of another person’s “intimate parts.” Per the California penal code, those parts include the “sexual organ, anus, groin, or buttocks of any person, and the breast of a female.” To violate the statute constitutes sexual assault, and a sexual assault that leads to “non-consensual…
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Stanford Sexual Assault Survivor Speaks Out in Glamour Magazine
The woman who was sexually assaulted by Brock Turner has penned an essay for Glamour magazine detailing what her life has been like since the attack, trial, verdict and subsequent lenient sentencing of the former Stanford swimmer. “Emily Doe” was named a Woman of the Year by Glamour in its annual list honoring women the…
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Stanford Rapist Brock Turner to Be Released From Jail This Friday
Brock Turner, the former Stanford student who received a slap on the wrist after being convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, is scheduled to be released from jail Friday, after serving only half of his meager six-month sentence, Business Insider reports. As the report notes, Turner was sentenced to six months in jail in…
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Brian Banks, Wrongly Convicted of Rape as a Teen, Calls Stanford Case One of ‘Privilege’
By now we are all familiar with the outrage sweeping the nation since a Santa Clara County, Calif., judge sentenced Stanford swimmer Brock Turner to six months in county jail after the 20-year-old was convicted of raping an unconscious and intoxicated woman in 2015. However, Brian Banks, a once-promising high school football player who was…