Brock Turner, the former Stanford student who was convicted last year of raping a woman while she was unconscious at a frat party, might have escaped jail when he was released early from his (already short) 6-month prison sentence. But that doesn't mean he's escaped the court of public opinion. A recent viral post on social media shows Turner being used as a prime example of “the way sexual violence has been handled in the criminal justice system” in a Criminal Justice 101 textbook.
Washington State University freshman Hannah Kendall Shuman shared a snap of a page in her second edition Introduction to Criminal Justice: Systems, Diversity, and Change textbook, in which a large photo of Turner is prominently displayed next to a section on rape.
The full caption under the photo reads:
Additional context about the case was provided, right next to Turner’s photo:
"I didn't think anyone of status or wealth would ever want to bring him up again," Shuman told the Huffington Post. "It seemed like America just wanted to act as if he never happened. I'm glad his name is resurfacing."
Reactions to this flawless use of Turner's photo were unanimous: if he's not going to serve the appropriate amount of time for his crime, becoming the textbook definition of rape is at least very fitting.