Former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner will be required to undergo drug and alcohol counseling when he is released from jail in September, the Associated Press reports.
Turner was convicted on three felony sexual assault charges earlier this year stemming from a January 2015 incident in which he was caught with an unconscious woman outside of a fraternity house. Last month, he was sentenced to six months in jail, though it appears as though he will be released after only about 3 months, depending on his behavior during his sentence. The current release date is listed on the Santa Clara County website as September 2, 2016.
After his sentence, reports of text messages on Turner’s phone suggested he had used illegal drugs and alcohol while in high school and college, despite Turner testifying in court that he had not used illicit substances and “had never really experienced celebrating or partying that involved alcohol” prior to college.
Though it was not originally part of his sentence, not was it recommended by the probation report, Turner will be required to attend drug and alcohol counseling when he is released from jail, according to the AP.
The AP report says that Turner maintained that he had not used illegal drugs up until June 14. On that day, in a jailhouse interview, probation manager Jana Taylor says Turner was told that his text messages about illicit drug use had gone public, and he then admitted to using LSD three times and to smoking marijuana and drinking alcohol in high school.
Turner’s sentence had previously included random drug and alcohol tests, which remain in place, as does the requirement to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life. USA Swimming has already said that Turner will not be eligible for membership in the future.
Good job. Pity his sentence wasn’t longer. Here the victim would be able to appeal against the Crown – but he would have received a proper sentence.
Who cares. Move on. Watch the Olympics.
To be clear, it was “digital penetration”, with a digit (a finger…not a cellphone). Not “rape” in the formal sense. The news media should be more precise and keep the word “rape” out of the titles of their articles. Whatever the FBI’s definition of rape on campus is, this is not rape in a dictionary sense. Exaggerating the crime does no one any favors, least of all the victim. Just sayin’.
Lets also not lessen the crime. What he did was rape.
Actually, digital penetration qualifies as rape. As far as why the rape charge was dropped from this case, the lawyers involved in the case would know more about that since they have seen all of the evidence.
Yes, for Emily Doe to wake up in the hospital to find medical personnel digging pine needles out of her vagina is ever so much less traumatic than what some deluded folk call “real rape,” I’m sure. /snark off
Whatever body part Brock Turner forcibly inserted while she was unconscious makes the behavior rape. Nothing has been “exaggerated” except for Turner’s defenders’ outsized outrage. The two graduate students who shouted Andy caught Turner running away are heroes in a way that must still give them nightmares.
Glad that SwimSwam substituted his original mugshot for whatever photo appeared before. And when the Rio 2016 swimming events are on television at the county jail, I hope Turner’s fellow inmates crank the volume… Read more »
3 months for rape?!# How perverse is that! Disgusting. If I never hear another word about this guy, I can only be too happy.
The Probation Officer -an experienced female – gave the sentencing report to all sides 30 days prior to the sentencing -as required by law. No one objected including the victim & attorneys. By all accounts the judge went within the guidelines -a fact that has been supported by over 300 Californian defence lawyers.
This supporting letter has been covered by the Bay Area Mercury & The Huffington Post & The Guardian if you would like to be informed.
No doubt the .24 BAC of the victim contributed . If you read the direct consequential behaviour of a female .24 her behaviours fit perfectly . Let’s hope she has undergone alcohol abuse treatment .
And yes – move on… Read more »
“testifying in court that he had not used illicit substances and “had never really experienced celebrating or partying that involved alcohol.””
Really? How about the party he was in resulted in him raping a woman in public? If there was no alcohol/drug involved, he soberly decided to committed the crime he did???
Not sure that statement help him in convincing others he is/was this saint and nothing happened that night was his fault.
Substance abuse counseling is a pretty standard condition of probation. This would have been ordered regardless of anything he said.
I think it’s time for the swimming community to distance itself from this guy. He’s a rapist who happened to swim. He now has a lifetime ban from USA swimming, so he’s not a swimmer anymore. There are a lot of good stories to tell out there about swimming, especially with the Olympics coming up. Can we focus on those?
THANK YOU!!! So sick of hearing About this guy. Time to focus on the Olympics.
I’m sure the victim is sick of hearing about him too. It might be nice to sweep this under the rug as has happened far too often in the swimming community. Given the poor track record of protecting women and children from sexual predator in this space, we who love swimming need to pay closer attention to that mugshot and figure out what we need to do in our own small and big ways to make competitive swimming safer and better.
Thank you! No matter how uncomfortable this makes people feel, we need to tackle this head-on and learn from it so that we can ensure that we don’t endorse any such behaviours now or in the future.
Yea! Let’s ignore the rape problem . It will go away. Just everyone swim fast ! That is all that matters!
It was pretty clear to me from all those support letters and the stuff he said and wrote that they were just grasping at whatever they could to try and reduce the sentence. Which, while an understandable response, was still a super scumbag move.
Dude would’ve said he was a Nazi kitten-stomping enthusiast if it would’ve helped him stay out of jail, not unsurprising he’d try to paint himself as a sober saint.