Former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner has registered as a tier III sex offender in his home state of Ohio upon being released from a California jail.
Turner was a freshman swimmer at Stanford in January of 2015 when he was discovered during early morning hours on top of an unconscious woman behind a dumpster near a fraternity on campus.
He was eventually charged with and convicted of sexual assault and was sentenced to 6 months in jail, a sentence some criticized on social media as too lenient.
Turner served three months of his sentence and was released early, something that is typical for inmates who don’t misbehave, per a representative of the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office.
Released on Sept. 2, Turner returned to Ohio, where he grew up and attended high school. He’s since been barred from the Stanford campus and kicked off the Stanford swim team.
As part of his sentence, the 21-year-old Turner must register as a sex offender every 90 days for the rest of his life, and ABC News reports that he registered in Ohio yesterday morning.
The local sheriff’s office will then send postcards to Turner’s neighbors to inform them of his status as a sex offender.
But with a sentence that inspired impassioned responses from his sentencing onward, Turner has also faced backlash from protesters who told The Guardian they want to send a message to Turner about his future.
According to The Guardian, about a dozen armed protesters showed up outside his home this week, carrying assault rifles and signs advocating the killing and/or castration of rapists. Here’s a quote from The Guardian:
“With an extremely lenient sentence, he can think ‘I can get away with this,’” Daniel Hardin, who carried an M4 assault rifle, said in an interview. “The message we want to send is … ‘If you try this again, we will shoot you.’”
The group said they plan to return often enough to make Turner “uncomfortable in his own home.”
Well, sure, that’s one way to go. Hang out at his house with your assault-style rifle and make sinister threats that seem unlikely to end up well for anyone. Or. You could use that time to do some actual good for someone else that really needs it. Priorities, I guess. Facepalm.
Why go back to Ohio? There are plenty of other places where he would be less known. I understand that his parents obviously have jobs and are rooted, but this is a complete circus complete with weapons. No one wants to live by a sex offender but it seems to me that returning to Ohio is not the best move. Maybe he should go back to California where they obviously do not think that crimes such as this warrant more severe punishment. As far as I know, Governor Brown has not signed the bill yet…
Californian citizens were outraged by the light sentence. He’ll have a tough life anywhere, as well his victim.
Californians cannot afford their prisoners & have to let them out .Even then the costs are not declining because legislation demands high quality medical care & they must pay medical staff enormous salaries .So it is even more imperative they push them out
What I don’t understand is why he always is referred to as swimmer, or Ex-Stanford swimmer. It seems irrelevant and frustrates me that that is what he is associated with. In no way do his actions represent the sport or its athletes. Call him what he is- a convicted rapist.
These gun nuts need to leave their weapons at home and stop with the threatening lest they end up in jail themselves.
No doubt the guy messed up and requires correction but the vigilantes looking to terrorise him and his family seem to me a good deal more sinister.
I have a random question. How come every time I click on a Turner story here at swim swam, the picture at the top of the page is seemingly 10x larger than it needs to be? On my 30 inch monitor it looks like a full-sized poster of his face. Kinda weirds me out.
I think it may be the shape of the photo. Most of the images SwimSwam uses seem to be landscape, where they are wider than long. But his mugshot is the other way.
I get that but on a lot of stories they only show a portion of the picture , landscape or not, and you have to click on the picture to see the whole thing.
It isn’t a huge deal, but when I read these stories at work I don’t really want someone to walk by when I have a giant Brock Turner mugshot filling up the entire screen of my monitor.
The right to own & carry guns goes both ways . The Turners are likely loaded also .Mrs Turner is at this moment laying very still on the left side of the porch sniper like waiting to kill off any attackers . In 3 years Brock will be able to get his own .
Very exciting times for Ohio .
Gina in the house!
Look, registering as a sex offender is no walk in the park life. Where he can live, work, and even travel around to will always be monitored and controlled. It’s quite possible that even if he gets married or has a relationship that would produce children, he might either have limited or little access to even be around those minor children.
I get that the crime was heinous, and there is no doubt he probably should have spend a longer period behind bars. But he certainly will live with a degree of “imprisonment” even if it is from the relative comfort of a family home.