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		</div><p>Former Stanford university student Brock Turner will be released from prison on Friday after completing a three-month prison sentence for sexually assaulting a woman behind a rubbish bin on the university campus.</p>
<p>His original sentence of six months was widely criticised for being too lenient and will now be even shorter as he has been rewarded for good behaviour with early release.</p>
<p>The case triggered public outcry and soul-searching among the American and global populous, with issues pertaining to race, class and sex being dissected and discussed. So how did the case reach this outrageous end-point, where a man convicted of sexual assault is released early from a sentence which was extremely lenient in the first place.</p>
<p>Brock Turner attends a party at the Kappa Alpha fraternity house, Stanford University.</p>
<p>He meets the 23-year-old victim and her sister at the party. Later Turner is discovered by two passers-by assaulting the unconscious victim behind the mobile rubbish bin in an alleyway near to the fraternity house. The Swedish men chase Turner and catch him, then call police.</p>
<p>The day after Turner was arrested for the assault, he posts $150,000 bail for his release before the trial. At trial, Turner pleads not guilty.</p>
<p>Much was made of the media portrayal of Turner as a swimmer for the university, with some articles including his race times as an accompaniment to the description of the attack.<br />
When the media talked about Brock Turner, all they talked about was how he was a star swimmer and this conviction was too harsh for him.</p>
<p>The legal system also failed to release Turner’s mugshot until after he was convicted, something which critics have said would not have been the case for a person who came from a poorer background.</p>
<p><strong>March 30 2016</strong></p>
<p>Turner is found guilty of one count of assault with intent to rape, one count of penetrating an intoxicated person with a foreign object; and one charge of penetrating an unconscious person with a foreign object.</p>
<p>Two previous counts of rape had been dismissed earlier in the case due to DNA evidence findings. Californian state law defines rape as penetration by the penis only.</p>
<p><strong>June 2 2016</strong></p>
<p>Judge Aaron Persky sentences Turner to six months in prison and orders that he be on the sex offenders’ register for life.<br />
Turner is placed in protective custody, serving his sentence away from other inmates due to the attention his case has received.</p>
<p>Turner’s victim releases the impact statement she read out in court to BuzzFeed, which quickly captures public attention, leading to an outpouring of support.<br />
In the 12-page statement she says: “You have dragged me through this hell with you, dipped me back into that night again and again.”</p>
<p>“You took away my worth, my privacy, my energy, my time, my safety, my intimacy, my confidence, my own voice, until today.”</p>
<p>Dan Turner’s statement was widely condemned for stating that his son’s “life will never be the one that he dreamed about and worked so hard to achieve. That is a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of his 20 plus years of life”.</p>
<p>I wonder if Dan Turner would think six months is a &#8220;steep price to pay&#8221; if he were on the receiving end of 20 mins of non-consensual action.</p>
<p>— Cynthia Boaz (@cynthiaboaz) June 9, 2016</p>
<p>As a father Dan turner you must be ashamed of your snide comment, what if it were your daughter and they called it 20 minutes of action?</p>
<p>— Ladylike_rue (@RutendoMariwa) June 9, 2016<br />
He later retracted the 20 minutes of action statement, stating through his lawyer: “I was not referring to sexual activity by the word ‘action.’ It was an unfortunate choice of words and I did not mean to be disrespectful or offensive to anyone.”</p>
<p><strong>June 6 2016</strong><br />
A change.org petition was launched to recall Judge Persky from service as a judge. In the months since, it has acheived over 1.2 million signatures.</p>
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