Former Stanford student and swimmer Brock Turner, who received a six-month sentence after being convicted of sexually assaulting a 23-year-old unconscious woman behind a dumpster, allegedly also forced himself on the victim’s sister.
Testimony given at the trial states that Turner attempted to kiss and grope the victim’s sister before the sexual assault. According to prosecutors, Turner tried to pursue the victim’s sister “without any sort of invitation or interest” before the infamous assault. The names of the victim and the sister have been removed.
“It was abundantly clear from Jane Doe 2’s testimony that she was completely caught off guard by his multiple attempts to kiss her that night. She even had to get away from him after he grabbed her waist, and she alerted her friend, Colleen, to his behavior,” according to the prosecution’s sentencing memorandum the Los Angeles Times reports.
From the L.A. Times:
In the sheriff’s report, Jane Doe 2 said she, her sister and friends had been in the outside patio area of the fraternity house where they met three guys. One of the guys was more aggressive, she said, and came up to her and one point and “started making out on her cheek” before going for her lips. She laughed in shock and the guy left.
A short time later, while she was talking to a friend, the “aggressive guy” came back and tried to make out with her again. He grabbed her from in front, at her lower waist, and kissed her on the lips, the report said. She said she had to leave and wiggled out from his hold.
In her impact statement, Jane Doe 2 addressed her encounter with Turner before her sister’s assault: “In my head, I still have an image of the assailant right before he tried to kiss me earlier in the evening; the face of the man who assaulted my sister, is burned into my memory.”
According to prosecutors Turner was a sexual predator:
“Even though he was twice rejected by Jane Doe 2, he felt it was acceptable to pursue her sister, Jane Doe 1, later that night when she was alone and inebriated. He purposefully took her to an isolated area, away from all the party goers, to an area that was dimly lit, and assaulted her on the ground behind a dumpster. He deliberately took advantage of the fact that she was so intoxicated that she could not form a sentence, let alone keep her eyes open or stand. This behavior is not typical assaultive behavior that you find on campus, but it is more akin to a predator who is searching for prey. The prey in the case was a young woman who drank too much and was unable to protect herself.”
The sister and her friend both identified Turner from a photographic lineup and described him as the “aggressive guy at the party.”
“The face of the man who assaulted my sister is burned into my memory,” the victim’s sister told the court. “An entire part of my heart has been permanently broken.”
Also released from court documents is a heartbreaking and scathing letter written by the younger sister of the Stanford rape victim.
The 21-year-old student said “the damage you inflicted is irreversible.” Her letter also said:
“Today I am still sick thinking about it. Sick to my stomach every time I am reminded of the incident. I am still sad that I was not there to protect her. We have both been devastated, we have been speechless, and we have cried until our bodies ran dry.”
She left the party to walk her friend back to her dorm room because she was feeling sick. During that time, she called her sister nine times before finally texting her, “I’m scared.”
She continued to address Brock:
“What has affected me most is that you did something to someone I love that I cannot take back. In this last year and a half, I have experienced some of the lowest points of my entire life; I have felt more sadness, guilt, and anger than I have ever felt. But I would go through what I’ve suffered a million times over if it meant that I could take away what you did to my sister. I can’t undo your mistakes and I can’t mend the part of her that you took away, even though she’s dedicated her life to mending me when I need her.”
“A few of my professors confronted me, asking me why I was distracted,” the victim’s sister wrote in her statement. “One by one I had to explain the event to them, to describe again and again, that my sister had been assaulted and that we were in the middle of a seemingly endless battle for justice, that for the year I would have to be traveling back and forth. I have spent heavy portions of my senior year of college driving six hours alone on multiple trips to sit in a dreary courthouse.”
She asks Turner, “Where has your remorse been? Really, truly: do you feel guilty because you were sexually assaulting her, or because you were caught?”
The victim’s sister ended her statement by saying, “The only sorrow I feel for you is that you never got to know my sister before you assaulted her. She’s the most wonderful person in the world.”
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