Women have been using social media to warn each other about convicted sex offender Brock Turner after he was seen out and about in Ohio.

In 2015, Turner first made headlines when he was found "thrusting" on a young woman's unconscious and half-naked body behind a dumpster at Stanford University, The Guardian reports.

Turner was a freshman at the time and, in 2016, he was sentenced to six months in county jail and probation - despite the severity of his crimes warranting a prison sentence of up to 14 years, per The Guardian.

As the media attention surrounding the incident grew, more disturbing details were revealed. The woman at the center of the allegations, Chanel Miller, addressed Turner in court in a scathing impact statement that revealed how she learned of the details of her rape via a news article online, days after spending the night in hospital for a sexual assault she had no recollection of.

Miller told the court how she had been stripped almost naked, was digitally penetrated, vaginally assaulted with a foreign object - and according to Turner, his unconscious victim "liked it."

"And then, at the bottom of the article, after I learned about the graphic details of my own sexual assault, the article listed his swimming times. She was found breathing, unresponsive with her underwear six inches away from her bare stomach curled in fetal position.

"By the way, he's really good at swimming. Throw in my mile time if that's what we’re doing. I'm good at cooking, put that in there, I think the end is where you list your extracurriculars to cancel out all the sickening things that've happened," Miller's devastating statement read, per BuzzFeed News.

During Turner's trial, jurors were repeatedly reminded that a longer sentence would severely impact his life, notwithstanding the fact that the life of a young woman's had already been drastically altered by Turner the year before.

Now, it seems, the once-promising swimmer has had an apparent fall from grace after being seen out and about in Ohio - and women are taking to social media to warn others.

One Facebook user, Casey Laroo, wrote: "Brock Turner has apparently moved back to [Ohio], specifically the Kettering/Oakwood area and has been frequenting local bars. If you see him out, inform the bartenders who he is, inform the women in the bar who he is, do not let anyone intoxicated walk away with him alone."

"To all of my female family members friends and acquaintances in the Oakwood, Kettering, Dayton and Columbus [Ohio] areas apparently now that he's no longer living in his parents basement and instead is living on Acorn Street in Oakwood Brock Turner is venturing out again. He has allegedly been stopped from leaving bars in both areas with heavily intoxicated young ladies," another user, Erica Cohran, shared.

"He is also living allegedly living 10 minutes from [University of Dayton] student housing so [University of Dayton] ladies you especially need to stay vigilant especially since we know has assaulted college aged women before and he views intoxication and loss of consciousness as an invitation for sexual assault. Be careful and watch out for each other if you're out at the bars or parties in these areas," she added.

A woman who is from Turner's hometown has also taken to TikTok to inform others that Turner has been living in the Dayton area for "seven years," and that she had seen him out and about in the Ohio town.

Turner's father wrote a frightful statement to the judge during his son's trial, infamously saying that Turner's punishment was a "steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of his 20 plus years of life," per CBS News.

Now, women are reclaiming their right to be safe by informing others of his whereabouts - in essence, a small price for Turner to pay for what has been years of trauma for Chanel Miller.

In her 2019 memoir, Miller recounted the undignified way she was again victimized throughout her abuser's trial, writing: "I will use Brock's name, but the truth is he could be Brad or Brody or Benson, and it doesn't matter [...] The point is not their individual significance, but their commonality, all the people enabling a broken system."

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At Stanford University, two graduate students cycled past Kappa Alpha fraternity at 1AM, and stopped. They noticed a horrific assault. Brock Turner, a 19-year-old student and promising swimmer, was forcing himself on an unconscious woman behind a dumpster. "What the f*** are you doing?" one of the graduate students reportedly yelled. "She's unconscious." Turner attempted to run away, but was tackled by one of the students. They restrained him until authorities arrived.

The incident took place in January 2015. When Turner's trial concluded, he was convicted on three counts of felony sexual assault: assault with intent to commit rape, sexual penetration of an intoxicated person, and sexual penetration of an unconscious person.

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Turner faced up to 14 years in prison. However, Judge Aaron Persky gave him an extremely lenient sentence: six months in county jail. Critics condemned the punishment, calling it an outrageous slap on the wrist. The case caught the attention of international media outlets, and the victim's powerful impact statement was widely circulated:

"You took away my worth, my privacy, my energy, my time, my safety, my intimacy, my confidence, my own voice, until today. In newspapers, my name was ‘unconscious intoxicated woman’, 10 syllables, and nothing more than that. For a while, I believed that that was all I was. I had to force myself to relearn my real name, my identity. To relearn that this is not all that I am."

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Brock Turner's father, Dan Turner, wrote a letter defending his son that caused a firestorm on social media. He expressed sadness that Brock didn't enjoy eating steaks anymore, and received such a harsh sentence for "20 minutes of action." At no point did he acknowledge the feelings of the victim.

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Turner served three months in jail, and was let out early for good behavior. However, he was still required to register as a sex offender for life. That is probably why he chose to appeal. His attorneys claimed that there was not enough sufficient evidence to support the conviction. They argued that since Turner didn't take his pants off, he only engaged in "sexual outercourse," not intercourse. Therefore, in their view, he did not intend to commit rape.

The California Court Of Appeals rejected this argument. "While it is true that defendant did not expose himself, he was interrupted," the court said. "Jurors reasonably could have inferred from the evidence described above that, if the graduate students had not stopped defendant, he would have exposed himself and raped [the victim]."

The evidence included statements from paramedics and the hospital staff, who reviewed the victim's skin abrasions and blood alcohol content. The victim is known as Emily Doe, to protect her identity. In addition, the evidence includes Turner's confession to police that he undressed Doe and penetrated her. He claims that she consented to sexual activity. Doe told police she did not consent, and that she has no memory of being with a man that night.

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Judge Persky, who served at the Santa Clara County Superior Court, faced a huge backlash for the 2016 sentencing, and was removed from office. He is the first judge in 86 years to be voted out of office in California. Turner's appeal, however, was reviewed by a three-judge panel at the Sixth District Court of in San Jose, California. The judges announced their decision today, and upheld Turner's sexual assault conviction on my all three counts. They stated Doe was too inebriated to give consent.

Stanford Law Professor Michele Dauber fought to remove Judge Persky and released a statement on Turner’s appeal. "Brock Turner is a lying, unrepentant sex predator who never showed real remorse for sexual assault,” said Dauber. “Turner never deserved the short misdemeanor sentence he received from Judge Persky -- a sentence that sent the message that his crimes were not really serious. The Appellate Court has now rejected that idea."

Brock Turner is required to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.

The woman who was sexually assaulted by Brock Turner in 2015 - and whose 7000-word victim impact statement changed the way that we, as a society, think and speak about sexual crimes - has formally introduced herself to the world, ahead of the publication of her upcoming memoir.

Chanel Miller, who was previously only known as "Emily Doe", penned the viral statement which spoke to survivors across the globe; informing them that they not alone. Miller's legacy helped pave the way for the #MeToo and Time's Up movements, which were sparked two years later with The New York Times' explosive exposé on the allegations of sexual harassment made against movie producer, Harvey Weinstein.

Per The New York Times, who revealed the erstwhile Stanford student's name early Wednesday morning, Miller will be publishing her memoir Know My Name in September, in which she will "reclaim the story of her sexual assault".

"Emily Doe’s experience illuminates a culture built to protect perpetrators and a criminal justice system designed to fail the most vulnerable," said the memoir's publisher, Viking Books, in a press release.

"The book will introduce readers to the writer whose words have already changed their world and move them with its accounting of her courage and resilience," Viking editor-and-chief, Andrea Schulz, continued. "The book will introduce readers to the writer whose words have already changed their world and move them with its accounting of her courage and resilience."

Today, CBS' 60 Minutes, announced that they will be airing Miller's first interview on the 22nd of September. Ahead of that date, they have released a clip of her reading her impact statement on social media.

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Turner, who also studied at Stanford University, was later convicted of assault with intent to commit rape of an intoxicated/unconscious person, penetration of an intoxicated person and penetration of an unconscious person. Although he initially faced up to 14 years in prison, he was sentenced to six months in county jail, where he served just three for "good behaviour".

Aaron Persky, the judge who sentenced Turner, was recalled from office in June 2018, becoming the first California jurist recalled from the bench in 86 years.

“It is one of the most important books that I’ve ever published,” Schulz told The New York Times. She said that she hopes it will "change the culture that we live in and the assumptions we make about what survivors should be expected to go through to get justice."

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention one in five of US women are raped at some point in their lives, and 1 in 3 are subject to sexual violence which involves physical contact.

In 2016, the case of Brock Turner gained worldwide recognition after the teen was handed a shockingly short prison sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman. Turner, who was 19 at the time of his arrest, was found guilty on two counts of "sexual penetration" and one count of "assault with intent to commit rape" - with all three charges amounting to a potential sentence of 14 years behind bars.

Prosecutors in the case were lenient towards the defendant and recommended just six years in prison for Turner. Judge Aaron Persky, however, was even more easy-going, and handed the man just six months for the felonies.

Turner only ended up serving three months behind bars for the horrific assault. He was also given three years of probation and was ordered to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.

In the wake of this, Judge Persky, who served at the Santa Clara County Superior Court, faced extensive criticism and now has been removed from office.

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Persky was removed after 59 per cent of voters opted to recall him, making him the first judge to have been removed from his post in such a way since 1932.

"The broader message of this victory is that violence against women is now a voting issue," said Michele Dauber, the women's rights activist who launched the recall effort. "This is a historical moment in time. Women are standing up for their rights, and there is a national reckoning."

Indeed, during the trial, the judge was heavily criticised for engaging in victim-blaming. This became painfully evident when the victim - identified only as Emily Doe - read aloud this statement at Turner's sentencing:

"You took away my worth, my privacy, my energy, my time, my safety, my intimacy, my confidence, my own voice, until today. In newspapers, my name was ‘unconscious intoxicated woman’, 10 syllables, and nothing more than that. For a while, I believed that that was all I was. I had to force myself to relearn my real name, my identity. To relearn that this is not all that I am."

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Shortly after Persky announced Turner's sentence, Dauber said that the light punishment told survivors of sexual assault: "‘You’re on your own. Don’t bother to call police or report.’ And the message to potential perpetrators is: ‘You don’t have to take this stuff seriously. Don’t worry, we have your back.'"

The case was also seen as an extreme example of white male privilege, as Persky said in court that a "prison sentence would have a severe impact on [Turner]," as the man was a promising Stanford University swimmer at the time of his prosecution.

Meanwhile, men of colour were being sentenced to far longer sentences for the same crime and, in some cases, years-long sentences for non-violent misdemeanours.

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Persky himself has always maintained that he made the right decision in the case, and was shocked by the public outrage that came as a result.

"I expected some negative reaction," he said. "But not this."

He continued: "The problem with this recall is it will pressure judges to follow the rule of public opinion as opposed to the rule of law."

What's more, when Persky was asked by CBS News whether the recent #MeToo movement and wider understanding of the struggles faced by sexual assault survivors would have changed the severity of his decision in the People vs Turner case, the judge said: "Generally, the answer is absolutely not".

While Turner may be walking free, though, the recall of Judge Persky sends an important message to the American people: sexual assault should not warrant a light sentence, and those who continue to prop up rape culture will eventually be removed from power.

In Ireland, a 27-year-old man was acquitted of raping a 17-year-old girl. The Irish Examiner reports that a jury of eight men and four women reached a unanimous verdict after 90 minutes. During the trial, the defendant insisted that the sex was consensual, and his lawyer, Elizabeth O’Connell, presented a shocking argument in her closing address: "You have to look at the way she was dressed," said O'Connell. "She was wearing a thong with a lace front."

Blaming rape victims for causing their own rape by wearing sexy clothing is an archaic argument; in fact, it's practically a cliché. When the news broke about a lawyer making that idiotic statement in court, and winning the case, people were rightfully outraged. "These kind of mythologies and stereotypes around rape come up again and again in court cases, because the defence to rape is that the sex was consensual," Dublin Rape Crisis Centre chief executive Noeline Blackwell told the Irish Independent. “So anything the defendant can do to suggest there was consent will be used."

On Wednesday, protestors took to the streets throughout Ireland to voice their fury over how the case was handled. They marched down the road, chanting "Clothes are not consent" and "Yes means yes, no means no!" And of course, they carried colorfulsigns, with images of thongs and scrawled messages. "End Victim Blaming," read one, while another asked, "Can we get a list of what we can wear?"

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The campaign group I Believe Her picked up the protest, and created the online movement #ThisIsNotConsent. Women tweeted photos of their underwear, and criticized the defense lawyer for "victim-blaming" a 17-year-old. "I’m sitting in the library now wearing a thong. Does that mean I’m “open to meeting someone” or feeling “promiscuous”?" asked one women. "Thongs DO NOT cause rape. Short skirts DO NOT cause rape. RAPISTS cause rape!" wrote another. And a third posted two pairs of of underwearing, asking for "someone to tell me which is less rapey."

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Politician Ruth Coppinger joined the protestors in the streets, and even brought their message the Dáil, which is like the Irish version of America's House of Representatives. While speaking in the chamber, she held up a pair of blue lacy underwear. "It might seem embarrassing to show a pair of thongs here," stated Coppinger. "How do you think a rape victim or a woman feels at the incongruous setting of her underwear being shown in a court?"

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On Twitter, Coppinger said that she heard cameras cut away from her when she brandished the underwear. Funny how the sight of lacy panties can make people feel so uncomfortable, but they're totally comfortable with a teenager's thong cited as evidence of sexual consent in a rape trial - especially a rape trial, in which the defendant was acquitted.