Stanford ‘pressured’ women to stay silent against Brock Turner
By John Buhler
Stanford University might be in huge trouble with regards to the Brock Turner rape case, as the women’s swim team was reportedly pressured not to speak out.
Stanford University might be coming under serious fire with the reports coming out about the Brock Turner rape case and the Stanford women’s swimming team.
In Joe Tacopino‘s article with the New York Post, “members of the Stanford University’s women’s swim team wanted to write to the judge overseeing the Brock Turner sex-attack case about his creepy behavior– but were reportedly ‘pressured’ by school officials not to speak out.”
Some of the members of the Stanford women’s swimming team would comment on Turner’s sleazy nature stating, “Brock’s arrest wasn’t surprising to anyone on the team” after some of the aggressive comments he would make to his female teammates.
Another member of the team refused to be alone with Turner after seeing his drunken behavior one night at an off-campus party.
This trial has come into the national spotlight over the light sentencing of Turner by controversial judge Aaron Persky, who gave Turner only six months in jail for raping an unconscious 23-year-old woman next to a dumpster.
His family has done nothing but magnify the horrible situation by saying things like he’s not tough enough to handle a lengthy prison sentence or his mother not being able to redecorate her house because of the stress from the trial.
Stanford has tried to distance itself from its former swimmer turned sex offender, but if the university did try to silence some of the complaints argued by his former female teammates, things could get very bad for the Pac-12 private university. Forcing concerned student athletes into silence over the Turner case does not bode well for Stanford in the slightest.
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