© KSBWBrock Allen Turner
A former Stanford University swimmer has been charged with raping an intoxicated, unconscious woman in an on-campus attack that prosecutors say was witnessed by two cyclists who nabbed him in the middle of the night as he tried to run away.
Brock Allen Turner, 19, who voluntarily withdrew from the school Tuesday, faces five felony counts that could put him behind bars for 10 years. He was booked into Santa Clara County Jail on Jan. 18, shortly after the attack, on suspicion of attempted rape and penetration with a foreign object, both felonies. He has been released on $150,000 bail.
Turner is charged with
one count of rape of an intoxicated person, one count of rape of an unconscious person, one count of sexual penetration by a foreign object of an intoxicated woman, one count of sexual penetration by a foreign object of an unconscious woman and one count of assault with intent to commit rape, prosecutor Alaleh Kianerci said Tuesday.
He is to be arraigned Monday in Palo Alto. Turner could not be reached Tuesday and his attorney, Mike Armstrong of Palo Alto, declined to comment.
Turner is not permitted to return to campus, the school announced Tuesday evening.
The
Stanford Daily, following up a story by a campus newsletter, The
Fountain Hopper, reported Tuesday that an unnamed freshman varsity athlete who had been accused of attempted rape was no longer practicing with the team and that he was not living on campus. A university spokeswoman said Tuesday the victim was not a student.
Kianerci declined to reveal details about the victim, describing her only as "a woman attending an on-campus party."
Turner's arrest comes as campus sexual assaults have attained unprecedented levels of national attention, with activists demanding their colleges do more to prevent assaults and punish offenders. Last spring, Stanford students protested the school's handling of a case in which the accused student -- whom police never charged, but who was found by a Stanford review panel to be responsible for sexual assault -- was permitted to complete his senior year.
Comment: For those of you short on time, the key points are:
- 7:40 Kristina is approached by an officer, grabbed and then forced into a chair.
- 10:10 She manages to stand up, and is promptly slammed onto the floor.
- 10:35 The officer gets off her and draws his weapon while she lies on the floor.
- 10:50 A second officer joins them and she stands up.
- 11:05 A third officer walks in and she tries to escape, the first officer shoots her point-blank and she goes down.
Contrast that with the video below of a gunman who entered a Dutch TV station demanding airtime. When confronted by police, at the end of the video, he drops the gun and is arrested. Taken alive... imagine that.