"Mad about Brock Turner's sentence? It's not uncommon"
"(CNN)Too lenient is how critics condemned the six-month jail sentence for Brock Turner, the former Stanford University swimmer convicted of three felonies for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman.
His leaving jail Friday after serving three months has only deepened perceptions of injustice in a case that has generated controversy and action on numerous fronts: a campaign to recall the judge, who will no longer hear criminal cases; approved legislation in California to make prison time mandatory in some sexual assaults; and a ban on hard alcohol on Stanford's campus
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My Thoughts: Rape is a violent physical infringement upon the rights of the victim. The reason I believe in individual rights is, men and women, have the potential to lie, harm, cause physical pain, rape, murder...... Each rape case has variables that are different from the others. But rape, is rape and in my opinion a grave offense.
I can understand that it is hard to prove in some instances, if there was any form of consent. And when it comes down to it, individuals lie. Criminals don't want to be caught, that is why they are criminals. But if the facts, the witnesses, the evidence matches up to the component of rape, there must be a proper form of justice, depending on the degree of the infringement.
To me three months in prison for rape, is ludicrous. Hope Solo just got a six month suspension and basically lost her career calling another team cowards. Words are not an infringement upon another's rights unless they are a specific and consistent type threat which can be hard to prosecute. But rape is. Rape is a sexual offense, that could lead into something even more disturbing. A pregnant girl or, woman, if the one raped was a girl or, woman which is usually the case.
I don't think banning hard alcohol is the answer. Parents need to educate kids about the values that are to gain, keep and the one's that harm, or could have detrimental consequences. I do believe we need to make sure judges are doing the best job possible, and more so that objective law is what rules our court rooms. Not fame, money, politics. But proper law for each case. Also making proper punishment for each offense, what it should be.
Creating a society and developing individuals that understand the potential of what
both ought to be. takes proper thinking, teaching and actions.
