Brock Turner Update: Protests Continue For 2nd Day Outside His Ohio Home

Brock Turner, a convicted sex offender, arrived home in Ohio on Saturday to dozens of people protesting his release. The protesters continued their mission today, with some asserting that they’ll “never go away.”

Jezebel reports that Turner, who was released on Friday of last week after serving only three months in jail for raping a girl in 2015, arrived back to his Sugarcreek Township home on Saturday. He had to make his way through dozens of protesters who want him to remain behind bars. On Sunday, the protests continued.

Although Turner never left his home or confronted the protesters, he was seen walking around in the garden area of his backyard while wearing a blue University of Kansas T-shirt and gray beach shorts. His father, Dan Turner, decided to cut the lawn on Sunday despite numerous people snapping photos of him while protesting his son. He scowled at the cameras a few times but kept to himself while pushing a red lawn mower back and forth across his front yard.

Several of the protesters who arrived on Saturday were armed and held white signs that condemned the former Stanford University student. Others covered the street and sidewalk by Turner’s home in chalk writing, with the word “rapist” written in between large arrows pointing to his residence. Although local firefighters drove in and washed away the chalk, some protesters indicate that they weren’t going away that easily.

“He’s not going to live some happy pleasant life. We’re going to never let him forget what he did.”

Turner made national headlines earlier this year when a California judge, Aaron Persky, sentenced him to only six months behind bars after he was found guilty of three counts of sexual assault. In 2015, Turner met a young woman at a Stanford frat party, and she rejected his advances on several different occasions during the course of the evening. Later on that night, two good Samaritans spotted Turner on top of an unconscious and half-naked female, and when they tried to stop him, Turner ran. It turned out to be the same girl who rejected him at the party.

Turner later said that the encounter was consensual and he only ran because he was “freaked out” about the situation, but a letter from the victim, describing in detail the emotional trauma she now lives with, backfired on the former Stanford swimmer’s testimony.

“You said, you would have stopped and gotten help. You say that, but I want you to explain how you would’ve helped me, step by step, walk me through this. I want to know, if those evil Swedes had not found me, how the night would have played out. I am asking you? Would you have pulled my underwear back on over my boots?

“Untangled the necklace wrapped around my neck? Closed my legs, covered me? Pick the pine needles from my hair? Asked if the abrasions on my neck and bottom hurt? Would you then go find a friend and say, Will you help me get her somewhere warm and soft? I don’t sleep when I think about the way it could have gone if the two guys had never come.”

#BrockTurner was released from jail, as calls for Judge Aaron Persky's recall continued. @abc7david has the latest: https://t.co/s9bKzqa2jb

— ABC7 News (@abc7newsbayarea) September 3, 2016

Meanwhile, as protesters gather in Ohio, other protesters thousands of miles away in Santa Clara, California, are rallying against Persky, calling him an unfit judge who isn’t safe to make judgments on criminal cases. Although Perksy stopped handling criminal cases shortly after the backlash of Turner’s sentencing, he still handles civil cases, and that’s something even California Senator Jim Beall wants to put an end to.

According to ABC News, the senator said, “My district in Santa Clara County is unsafe because of Judge Persky sitting on the bench right now.”

Brock Turner is expected to show up at the Green County Sheriff’s Department this week to register as a sex offender and learn details of his probation. He’ll then need to check in and re-register as a sex offender at least four times a year. He’ll remain on the national sex offender registry for the rest of his life.

[Image via Santa Clara County Police Department]