(CNN)So many excuses.
Brock Turner, the convicted rapist, is a good boy with an "easygoing personality that endears him to almost everyone he meets," said his father in a letter to the courts. A judge agreed and last week Brock, now 21, became a free man. Out of a California county jail after serving three months -- 90 days -- for a six month sentence for raping an unconscious woman last year. The former Stanford University swimming star must register as a sex offender and will serve out his three-year probation and live close to his family in Ohio, where he is a native of Oakwood, a suburb near Dayton.
Turner"s victim: Well, she"s still trying to put her life back together after being slut shamed in court. Privilege is powerful. It"s dangerous when left unchecked.
In California, UltraViolet, a community-based women"s rights group, has been lobbying for Assembly Bill 2888, which would require mandatory prison sentences and prohibit probation in cases like Turner"s.
The bill, if signed by Gov. Jerry Brown, would close a loophole in state law that currently calls for different sentences in cases where the sexual assault victim was unconscious or intoxicated during the attack.
Act now, or keep making excuses. It"s your choice. But pray it"s never your daughter who reads in the paper one day how she was found naked and unconscious one cold night behind a dumpster and raped by a nice boy with a winning smile.
Pray that you never have to look into her eyes and explain why she doesn"t really deserve justice because she"s just a girl.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/05/opinions/stop-justifying-men-who-rape-jones/index.html
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