Brock Turner II (and likely soon III, and IV, and so on…)
Woke up to the news that a judge considers the perpetrator of a filmed rape to be “deserving of leniency.” A teenager considered one of his female peers to be worth so little that not only did he assault her, he shared footage of the attack and captioned it “when your first time having sex was rape.”
Like. Okay. I don’t throw the word “psychopath” around lightly but this kid legitimately sounds like a psychopath. His victim might never be the same again, and what does the rapist get? Compliments from the judge, because oh his scores for college entry were very high!
It’s just like the Brock Turner case, an explosion of privilege and excuses, and it’s terrifying. Completely bloody terrifying.
Whenever I hear about teenage rapists it reminds me of something that happened in my home city. Still one of the worst rape cases I’ve ever heard about, and it happened in a place I’d walked around many times, still do in fact. (But never at night. Don’t think you’ll get many women going there at night now, really.) A person who’d just celebrated their 17th birthday walked into a park, raped a woman, beat her almost to death with a paving stone and left her. I’m calling him ‘a person’ because I don’t think he deserves the label of ‘man’. The woman survived only because someone came across her in the dark. She helped send him to prison.
That rapist’s name was Charlie Pearce. Let’s hope this “deserving of leniency” rapist gets named as well. Why can’t women walk through parks at night? Why can’t they go to parties?