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		</div><p>A petition has been instigated by a Stanford Law professor to remove a judge who gave a six-month sentence to a young man who sexually assaulted an unconscious woman.</p>
<p>The professor, Michele Landis Dauber, has publically slated the sentencing saying the judge, Santa Clara County superior court Judge Aaron Persky, has effectively told women &#8220;you&#8217;re on your own&#8221;.</p>
<p>Former Stanford swimmer Brock Allen Turner, aged 20, was given a six-month sentence in county jail and three years’ probation after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting a 23-year-old unconscious woman on campus.</p>
<p>The sentencing, and comments from Mr Turner’s father who is quoted as saying his son was paying a “steep price” for “20 minutes of action out of his 20 plus years of life” has led to outrage regarding the case.</p>
<p>Professor Dauber, who is a family friend of the victim, is quoted in The Guardian as saying the judge “bent over backwards in order to make an exception…”</p>
<figure id="attachment_91729" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-91729" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/image-65.jpeg"><img src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/image-65.jpeg" alt="Brock Allen Turner, 23" width="600" height="750" class="size-full wp-image-91729" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-91729" class="wp-caption-text">Brock Allen Turner, 23</figcaption></figure>
<p>“The message to women and students is ‘you’re on your own,’ and the message to potential perpetrators is ‘I’ve got your back.’”</p>
<p>In a powerful 12-page victim impact statement the victim said of Mr Turner “You took away my worth, my privacy, my energy, my time, my safety, my intimacy, my confidence, my own voice.”</p>
<p>The victim said: &#8220;Alcohol is not an excuse. Is it a factor? Yes. But alcohol was not the one who stripped me, fingered me, had my head dragging against the ground, with me almost fully naked.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/brockturner?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#brockturner</a> father: son not ";violent"; only got ";20 mins of action"; shouldn&#39;t have to go to prison. <a href="https://twitter.com/thehuntinground?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@thehuntinground</a> <a href="https://t.co/IFECJs687b">pic.twitter.com/IFECJs687b</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Michele Dauber (@mldauber) <a href="https://twitter.com/mldauber/status/739320585222660096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 5, 2016</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>In sentencing the young man, who was found by two graduate students lying on top of the unconscious victim behind a dumpster, outside a fraternity party, the judge said the defendant should be treated differently than a sober defendant due to his intoxication.</p>
<p>The judge also said “there is less moral culpability attached to the defendant who is…intoxicated.”</p>
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