Brock Turner, the man convicted of raping an unconscious woman on the Stanford University campus, reportedly had a history of alarming behavior toward women.
ABC News reveals court documents show during the same night of the rape, a woman unrelated to Turner’s current case says Turner grabbed and kissed her as she turned around and pushed him away. She described the interaction as “odd” because they hadn’t talked nor flirted. And this was not the last strange interaction Turner had with the woman—after she rejected him, he came back later in the night, grabbed her by the waist and attempted to kiss her again as she talked with a friend.
The weekend before the sexual assault took place, Turner groped a woman he briefly danced with at a KA frat party. ABC News explains the woman’s statement, saying she “described him as being ‘flirtatious’ with her… After she began to feel uncomfortable and ‘turn her body away so that he would not be directly ‘behind’ her,’ he became ‘touchy’ and put his hands on her waist, stomach and upper thighs.” The woman says Turner “creeped” her out.
According to ABC News, the prosecutors’ documents show Turner’s goal was to “‘hook up’ with women who were strangers to him.” The documents also reveals Brock Turner is in ‘denial’ about his criminal tendencies toward rape and sexual assault and he shows no remorse for his actions toward the women, but only regrets his decision for the impact it has on his life.
Judge Aaron Persky, Stanford Alumni and one-time lacrosse coach, sentenced Turner to a mere six month prison term with protective custody for his crime. After sufficient evidence revealing Turner’s criminal tendencies, Judge Persky said: “A prison sentence would have a severe impact on him. I think he will not be a danger to others.” The nation is now in an uproar at the soft sentence, with nearly one million signatures on a petition to remove Persky from his esteemed position.
