To the parents of Brock Turner

I’ve read your letters and comments, begging the judge not to be harsh on the boy, that it’s “too steep a price” to pay for what he’s done. How is 6 months in jail and a life time sex offender status too steep? Do you literally process what he’s done? He took a drunk woman, who LEGALLY CANNOT give consent, to a dumpster and “digitally raped” her. Though she was unconscious, he assumed a hand on his back was support to continue. He VIOLATED a woman who did not say “yes, let’s have consensual sex.” He took her to a secluded location, pulled her panties down, and her dress up and violated her. There was dirt and leaves in her vagina. Mmm, dirt in her vagina sounds consensual.

How can you support someone like that? Someone who has “never done anything wrong?” Until now, that is. How can you beg and plead for him to not go to jail because it “would ruin his life.” Do you think about the life he ruined? The woman’s life? Did you once think about her? Did you ever put yourself in her shoes, and wonder what she must be feeling? Do you have a daughter? Did you think about how you would feel if it was YOUR daughter behind the dumpster and someone was assaulting and raping her? Did you think about that? I’m sure you wouldn’t be begging the judge to give the assailant a light sentence. All you are thinking about is whether your son is going to be “ruined” for life and now he can’t get into school, and he can’t swim anymore. Boo hoo.

Did you know his victim is ruined for life? She is slandered in the media for being a “intoxicated, unconscious woman.” Whether she was intoxicated or not does not matter, she is of age, Brock however, is not. He’s 20. He took advantage of a young woman and fucked up her life. Brock isn’t his “happy go lucky” self anymore? What about her? She’s petrified and traumatized, but you are upset because your son doesn’t eat ribeye steaks anymore; how tragic.

I find it sad how you have no remorse for the pain your son has inflicted on the woman he RAPED. The lot of you only care about yourselves. Did you know there was a black man with the SAME exact charges as Brock and he got 6 years? Yeah, and you think 6 months in prison, but an early release after 3 is harsh. And to the judge, what the fuck is wrong with you? You “don’t see him as a danger.” HE RAPED AN UNCONSCIOUS WOMAN.

Do you people not think? Put yourself in the woman’s shoes, who woke up in the hospital to find she was raped, and now she’s terrified every day of her life. But no, the only reason you parents are sad is because you’re now in tremendous debt and your son won’t get a degree to show for it, and frankly he doesn’t deserve a degree from Stanford or any other school. He ruined someone’s life, and HE ruined his own. You have no one to blame for Brock’s actions but Brock himself. You can put a rapist in a speedo and an IVY league school, but he’s still a rapist.

Do you want to be found, raped and naked, near a dumpster?

-Jane