Argumentative Essay: The Turner Debate

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Our entire lives of existence there had been hundreds of reports of sexual assault. But more than half of the reports end with letting the assaulter free with a clean record. It is not just the assaulters fault; now communities and even council members are saying “boys will be boys” or “It’s too harsh to sentence them”
· Brock Turner, January of 2015 he was caught sexually assaulting a woman on college campus. Turner was let go free with no punishment. The Judge who was in charge of his case told the community Turner deserves forgiveness. Turner is now a free man who got away with one of the worst things a human can

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