Mike Golic just said what everyone has been thinking when it comes to Brock Turner.
On his podcast yesterday, the former professional football player and current ESPN radio host took a few minutes to address the sexual assault case that has been sweeping the nation.
For those unaware:
Turner was convicted last week on three felony counts of sexual assault.
A jury found him guilty of digitally raping an unconscious woman outside of a party in January 2015, an incident that only ended because Turner ran away after he was caught near a dumpster by two Stanford graduate students.
The case has gone viral because Judge Aaron Persky only sentenced Turner to six months in country jail.
In a statement explaining why, Persky said he feared any harsher punishment would have a negative “impact” on Turner, a former top swimmer at Stanford.
In response, Turner’s victim read a letter in court that detailed the horrific ways in which Turner’s assault has changed her life in the past 18 months.
Turner’s father also released a grotesque statement that downplayed his son’s heinous actions and argued that Turner did not deserve any jail time.
On air on Tuesday, Golic went through the convictions that, according sentencing guidelines, could have landed predators such as Turner in state jail for 14 years. They were:
- Intent to commit rape.
- Penetration of an unconscious person.
- Penetration of an unconscious person with a foreign object.
“You read that and you’re disgusted,” Golic said. “Convicted – he was convicted of that.”
Despite prosecutors recommending six years in state prison, Judge Persky (who was also a Stanford athlete) decided to give Turner just six months behind (county) bars because he felt “a prison sentence would have a severe of impact on him, and I don’t think he’ll be a danger to others.”
“Oh do ya?” Golic screamed.
When it came to Turner’s father, meanwhile, and his statement that his son hasn’t been eating or sleeping well since the assault, Golic really went off.
“Sorry Brock that you don’t sleep well after assaulting this woman,” he said. “How is she doing? What about this woman?”
In conclusion, the ESPN personality said what any sane person has been thinking for days:
“Does Brock’s father or this judge understand that a woman was assaulted in this? At all?.
“It blows my mind, some of the things that go on.”
