What the Stanford Rape Case Says About Women’s Worth

FEATURING SOFIA RESNICK – A brutal campus rape case at Stanford University has gotten national media attention for the lenient sentence received by the convicted rapist. Brock Turner, a swim team champion at Stanford was caught raping an unconscious young woman who is being identified through the pseudonym “Emily Doe.” Two Swedish students on bicycles caught Turner in the act  and Emily Doe realized only after she had awoken in the hospital that she was raped.

Turner was sentenced to a mere 6 months out of a possible 20-year sentence after Judge Aaron Persky decided that the young man’s future might be too severely impacted by a longer sentence. Emily Doe has spoken out in a 12-page letter describing her harrowing experience in detail – a letter that has gone viral. While Turner will have to register as s sex offender for the rest of his life, critics are decrying the judge’s bias and organizing to recall him. Additionally, Turner’s father wrote a letter that many are calling “tone deaf” as he denounced “steep price” that his son has to pay for “20 minutes of action.”

Read the victim’s letter HERE.

Sofia Resnick, Investigative Reporter with Rewire News, formerly known as RH Reality Check.