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<\/a><\/div>\nAs Brock Turner’s six-month sentence for rape continues to generate outrage, two women who had served as character witnesses<\/a> for Turner have now apologized for their support.<\/p>\n SEE ALSO: ‘Brock made a mistake’: The letters that could help explain Stanford rapist\u2019s light sentence<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Most prominent is Leslie Rasmussen of indie rock band Good English. Rasmussen, who attended the same high school as Turner in Ohio, indicated in her character witness letter<\/a>\u00a0that the blame for the crime should be placed on the environment at college campuses, not on young men, like Turner, who commit rape:\u00a0<\/p>\n Rasmussen also said of the rape, “I think this is all a huge misunderstanding.” She added, while insisting she was not blaming the victim, “I don\u2019t think it\u2019s fair to base the fate of the next ten + years of his life on the decision of a girl who doesn\u2019t remember anything but the amount she drank to press charges against him.” Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n More about Rape<\/a>, Character Witness<\/a>, Good English<\/a>, Brock Turner<\/a>, and World<\/a> As Brock Turner’s six-month sentence for rape continues to generate outrage, two women who had served as character witnesses for Turner have now apologized for their support. SEE ALSO: ‘Brock made a mistake’: The letters that could help explain Stanford … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"