San Francisco: Stanford rapist Brock Turner sent a photo of his victim’s breasts to friends after an attack outside a frat house party on the university’s grounds last January. Detectives claim Turner sent the image into a group messaging app. He received a reply asking, ‘Whos tit is that’, from one of the members on the chat network.
The response message, on GroupMe app, was sent by another Stanford swimmer Justin Buck, originally from the UK. In one of the testimonies, an eyewitness has claimed that Turner was spotted pointing a phone at the victim. The eyewitness said Turner vanished after he was caught with the phone near the victim.
Turner, 20, is also facing renewed scrutiny after police found photos on his phone that show drug use. His family had claimed that the champion swimmer led a "clean life" and was not the kind of person who would commit a crime. “Coming from a small town in Ohio, I had never really experienced celebrating or partying that involved alcohol,” he had claimed in a letter to the judge.
But it has emerged that prosecutors found extensive evidence showing he was a hardened drinker in high school who regularly indulged in high-grade marijuana, as well as LSD and ecstasy. Also texts show him discussing buying LSD while still at school with friends.
He also used a number of obscure slang terms for highly concentrated forms of marijuana in texts, which prosecutors say suggest he was a regular user of the narcotic. Brock Turner’s six-month sentence has sparked anger worldwide. He could’ve received a sentence of upto 14 years but judge Aaron Persky, who presided over the case, has been slammed for going easy on the attacker. Students across Stanford are planning a series of protests demanding a stricter sentence.
