During a commencement speech at Stanford University on Sunday, filmmaker Ken Burns made a plea for graduates to believe survivors of sexual assault. Turner received a six-month jail sentence for three felony counts of sexual assault, a sentence most people have called far too lenient. "Maybe someday we will make the survivor's eloquent statement as important as Dr. King's letter from a Birmingham jail," Burns said. Burns referenced a letter written by a woman who was sexually assaulted on the Stanford campus in January 2015 by Brock Turner, who was then a freshman at the university. The letter, which Turner's victim read aloud at his sentencing this month, circulated widely and drew international attention to the case.

Source: Huffington Post June 12, 2016 23:43 UTC