Brock Turner’s dad, Dan Turner, started a legal defense fund to assist quilt court-related expenses, CBS’ WHIO in Dayton, Ohio, reported on Tuesday, June 7.
According to WHIO, the former Stanford student’s father established a legal make stronger fund with an Ohio native credit score union. An unidentified lady who described herself as a “lifelong buddy, mother and person who has watched this family develop” also started a Facebook web page on behalf of Brock’s mother, Carleen, and Dan. The page, which used to be titled “Turner Family Support Fund,” has since been got rid of. According to the native outlet, the web page, which equipped directions on how to donate, had Forty or so participants.
"[Brock's parents] are dealing with a monumental life-changing and tragic situation with Brock, and their expenses continue to mount,” the page read. “As a mother and friend, I would do anything to help my child and save him. I know that while we are not experiencing what they are feeling, my heart and faith continue to want to help and be supportive."
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Former swimmer Brock, 20, used to be convicted on 3 prison counts of sexual attack after sexually assaulting an unconscious 23-year-old girl all the way through a party on campus. As up to now reported, Judge Aaron Persky sentenced Brock to only six months in jail. Earlier this week, the Associated Press reported that Brock will handiest serve part of his sentence. He’s lately being held in protective custody at the Santa Clara County Jail.
Dan Turner confronted backlash after he dubbed the incident in his letter to the judge a mere “20 mins of action” in his son’s life.
The debatable case caused even more outrage after it was once printed on Thursday, June 9, that Brock had lied about being unfamiliar with the partying scene. In his letter to the judge, Brock blamed his crime on Stanford’s “celebration culture.” However, in a prosecutor’s memo, it used to be published that during high school the swimmer drank alcohol, dropped acid and extra.
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