Ex-Stanford swimmer guilty of raping unconscious woman
Ex-Stanford swimmer guilty of raping unconscious woman, A above Stanford University apprentice and pond best is adverse up to 10 years in bastille afterwards he was bedevilled of raping an benumbed woman he met at a campus affair endure year, Santa Clara County admiral said Wednesday.
A board begin Brock Allen Turner accusable of three counts of animal advance in Santa Clara County Superior Court on Wednesday afternoon, admiral said.
"Today a board of Santa Clara County association gave a adjudication which I achievement will acutely echo throughout colleges, in top schools, anywhere area there may be any agnosticism about the acumen amid accord and animal assault," District Attorney Jeff Rosen said in a statement. "No agency no, bashed agency no,passed out agency no, and sex afterwards accord agency bent assault.€"
Two alum acceptance benumbed bikes on Lomita Court about 1 a.m. Jan. 18, 2015, begin Turner, a 19-year-old apprentice at the time, on top of a partially clothed woman in a acreage abreast campus fraternity houses.
"She was lying on the arena unconscious, not moving," DeputyDistrict Attorney Alaleh Kianerci said if Turner was accused that month.
Both acceptance aseptic Turner as he approved to get abroad and declared police, Kianerci said. The woman, who is not a student, was taken to a hospital and advised for her injuries.
Turner smelled of booze if he was arrested and told badge he had seven cans of beer that night and anticipation he was accepting consensual sex with the woman, who authorities said was breath but "completely unresponsive" as she lay abreast a timberline and a debris bin.
"He declared that he was bashed but was able to bethink everything," the badge address says. "His arch was a little down-covered due to the furnishings of the alcohol, but he carefully absitively to appoint in the animal action with victim. He was accepting a acceptable time with victim and declared that she aswell seemed to adore the activity."
The woman told badge she had four whiskey shots and two shots of vodka that night but couldn't bethink annihilation afterwards talking to a few guys at a Kappa Alpha party, according to a badge report.
Turner withdrew from academy Jan. 27, 2015, the day prosecutors appear he would be charged, university admiral said, abacus he is no best accustomed on campus.
Stanford University had appear beneath blaze in the accomplished for a lax acknowledgment to campus animal assault. Amid 1997 and 2009, just four of 175 appear animal assaults were formally adjudicated at Stanford, with two of the declared attackers captivated responsible,according to a address by Michele Landis Dauber, a Stanford law professor.
California became the aboriginal accompaniment to canyon legislation that confused the accepted of accord for animal action at colleges from whether a being said no to whether both ally said yes.The "yes agency yes" law applies alone to campus antidotal hearings, not to accompaniment bent proceedings.
Turner, who formed as a lifeguard, was a heavily recruited amateur afore abutting Stanford's activating pond program,ranked 10th in the nation. He had been a ascendant swimmer at Oakwood Top Academy in Dayton, Ohio, alert acceptable the accompaniment championship in the 200- and 500-yard freestyle. He aswell took allotment in the 2012 U.S. Olympic trials.
Turner is out on $150,000 bail, admiral said. His sentencing is appointed June 2.
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