Tuesday, 7 June 2016

Light Sentence for Brock Turner in Stanford Rape Case Cause Outrage
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/07/us/outrage-in-stanford-rape-case-over-dueling-statements-of-victim-and-attackers-father.html

(I would of put the article here but it was giving me troubling copying it)


Response: 

After reading this article and a few others, including the victims letter, it makes me outraged and sad. I agree with the professor quoted in this article that the punishment given to Brock Turner was a mere "slap on the wrist". I think this article was meant to be for the people who are for the victim, but also those who think that Brocks sentence was enough. The author makes it out to seem like the dad's letter posted on Twitter a pathetic response to the destruction of the victims life. You can obviously see that titles, privilege, sex, had a role to play in Brock's sentence in that it was lessened because he was basically a good swimmber. You can obviously see my strong bias in this response.I think the objective of the article was so show what the Stanford freshmen and his family are going through but also show pieces of what the victim wrote in her 7000 word defense letter. 

Citation:

           Stack, Liam. "Light Sentence for Brock Turner in Stanford Rape Case Cause Outrage." The New York Times. NYTimes, 6 June 2016. Web. 7 June 2016. <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/07/us/outrage-in-stanford-rape-case-over-dueling-statements-of-victim-and-attackers-father.html>.

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