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Jilly_in_VA

(10,886 posts)
Tue Aug 23, 2022, 08:04 AM Aug 2022

Women in Ohio Are Using TikTok to Warn Each Other About Brock Turner

Brock Turner is going viral again.

Convicted in 2016 of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, Turner was sentenced to just six months in jail—a sentence that, to many, was proof that the criminal justice system doesn’t care about rape victims. But Turner was also required to register as a sex offender, and now, people on Facebook and TikTok are using that registry to warn one another to stay away from him.

“Brock Turner is now living in the Dayton, Ohio, area,” one recent post on Facebook read. “He is frequenting bars in the area. Do not let him leave with an intoxicated woman. Inform the women of who he is. Inform the bartender, bouncers. Brock Turner does not belong in public.”

Versions of that post have popped up repeatedly on Facebook over the last several weeks. Another post read, “Just trying to spread awareness that this r@pist is back in our midst. Please tell your female and femme-presenting friends, family members, co-workers, literally everyone. This man does not deserve peace.”

It’s unclear why, exactly, these warnings are popping up now. Although Ohio’s sex offender registry does not publicly list when people register or re-register, Turner is from the state and has been reported to live there for years. But the re-emergence of the warnings, years after #MeToo washed across social media and supposedly introduced the concept of consequences for sex crimes, the warnings about Turner reveal that women are still relying on so-called “whisper networks” to protect themselves when they believe the system has failed them.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/3adany/brock-turner-tiktok-ohio-rape

Don't do the crime if you don't want your reputation slimed. That's all I've got to say.

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Women in Ohio Are Using TikTok to Warn Each Other About Brock Turner (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Aug 2022 OP
Good. If you Google Brock Turner rapist, the term is one of the first on google irisblue Aug 2022 #1
How about, just don't do the crime. BWdem4life Aug 2022 #2

irisblue

(34,255 posts)
1. Good. If you Google Brock Turner rapist, the term is one of the first on google
Tue Aug 23, 2022, 12:43 PM
Aug 2022

Apparently his inner rapist comes out when he has alcohol in his system.


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/brock-turner-stanford-swimmer-lied-about-drinking-doing-drugs-sentencing-memo-says/

His sentencing statement
https://stanforddaily.com/2016/06/10/brock-turners-statement-in-trial-and-at-his-sentencing-hearing/

snip-"Coming from a small town in Ohio, I had never really experienced celebrating or partying that involved alcohol. However, when I came to school in California, it had become what I expected when spending a Saturday with friends. I began to champion the idea of relieving the stress of school and swimming by consuming alcohol on weekends with people."


snip-"The next thing I realize is that we were both on the ground laying next to each other because it seemed as though she lost her footing heading down the slope and I went down with her. We started laughing about it and I was just thinking of how much of a klutz I could be. I ask her if she was alright and she tells me that she thought she was. After this happened, we started kissing each other again on the ground on which we fell. "

you can read the rest of it at source. Have a glass of water & an empty bucket near by though

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