All right, what follows here is the complete statement given to the court by Brock Turner, convicted rapist Brock Turner.

It is complete with the exception of the bleeps, which are the redacted names of the victims and other people related to the case.

We would obviously appreciate your thoughts on this.

This will also be in tandem with the victim's statement to the court, which Brittany will read,

and will also show up in your feed following Brock's.

So without further ado, the poorly written and likely poorly read statement by convicted rapist,

Brock Turner.

The day of January 17, 2015, started out like most of my days at school were spent.

By getting up and going to swim practice.

Having spent the past four months on campus living around my friends who were essentially all on the swim team i had plans to spend time with them later that day coming from a small town in

ohio i had never really experienced celebrating or partying that involved alcohol however when i came

to school in california it had become what I expected when spending a Saturday with friends.

I began to champion the idea of relieving the stress of school and swimming by consuming alcohol on weekends with people.

On one instance of a Saturday of drinking, I was walking to one of the home football games with my recently found friends on the

swim team.

I thought things were going great.

I was having a beer with them while walking to the game and experiencing what were

supposedly the best years of my life, quote unquote.

I thought it was cool to be able to have a beer with friends while walking to a football

game.

However, the day ended by having been charged with a minor in possession for drinking alcohol.

This should have opened my eyes to the dangers of drinking.

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