Brock Turner makes his way to court (Picture: AP)

A friend of the Stanford sex attacker urged the judge not to worry about being ‘politically correct’ during sentencing.

A jury of 12 unanimously found Brock Turner guilty of three counts including sexually penetrating an intoxicated and unconscious person with a foreign object, digital rape and assault with intent to rape.

Far-right party release video warning asylum seekers to ‘Keep fingers off OUR women’His convictions meant he was facing a maximum 14 years in jail. Despite this, he was sentenced to just six months by judge Aaron Perksy, who said due to his age and lack of criminal history, ‘a prison sentence would have a severe impact on him’.



Yesterday we reported the heartbreaking statement the victim, who was found with Turner thrusting on top of her unconscious body, which he’d stripped naked from the waist down bravely read to her attacker in court. Read it in full here.


An extract from the victim statement of the woman Brock Turner assaulted

Today, a letter sent to the judge from a friend of Brock Turner has emerged.

People have been quick to slam Leslie Rasmussen’s statement.

Among some extremely shocking claims, Rasmussen says convicted sex attacker Brock shouldn’t have his fate decided by the hazy memory of his victim.

Hoover Tower at the Stanford University (Picture: Getty)

Here is Rasmussen’s letter:

‘Brock is not a monster. He is the furthest thing from anything like that, and I have known him much longer than the people involved in this case.

‘I don’t think it’s fair to base the fate of the next ten + years of his life on the decision of a girl who doesn’t remember anything but the amount she drank to press charges against him.

(Picture: Santa Clara County Sheriff Handout)

‘I am not blaming her directly for this, because that isn’t right. But where do we draw the line and stop worrying about being politically correct every second of the day and see that rape on campuses isn’t always because people are rapists.

‘It is because universities market themselves as the biggest party schools in the country. They encourage drinking.

‘I think it is disgusting and I am so sick of hearing that these young men are monsters when really, you are throwing barely 20-somethings into these camp-like university environments, supporting partying, and then your mind is blown when things get out of hand.

She adds: ‘This is completely different from a woman getting kidnapped and raped as she is walking to her car in a parking lot.

‘That is a rapist. These are not rapists.

‘These are idiot boys and girls having too much to drink and not being aware of their surroundings and having clouded judgement.

‘I’m not saying that is every case because I know there are young men that take advantage of young women and vice versa, but I know for a fact that Brock is not one of those people.’

To back up her theory that Brock can’t be a rapist because he didn’t kidnap his unconscious victim, Rasmussen goes on: ‘He is respectful and caring, talented, and smart enough to know better.’



The disturbing statement was shared on Twitter by Michele Dauber, a law professor and sociologist at Stanford Law School.

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