04-06-2016 16:57 via salon.com

Ex-Stanford swimmer’s jail term decried as too lenient

PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — A six-month jail term for a former Stanford University swimmer convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman is being decried as a slap on the wrist.
A California judge sentenced 20-year-old Brock Turner to six months in county jail and three years’ probation after the woman who was assaulted read the court an emotional statement that has gone viral.
She described how the attack left her “closed off, angry, self-deprecating, tired, irritable, em
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