PALO ALTO, Calif. – Stanford University graduating students and women’s rights advocates used the school’s commencement ceremony to again express their anger over the six-month jail sentence given to a former student for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman.
A handful of students demonstrated Sunday during “Wacky Walk,” a rambunctious, slow-moving stroll by graduating students dressed in zany costumes that precedes the official graduation events.
One person held a sign that declared “Stanford protects rapists.” Another graduate’s sign was a message to the victim: “You are a warrior.”
Organizers said they wanted to show solidarity with the woman sexually assaulted on campus last year by former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner. Turner, 20, of Oakwood, Ohio, is scheduled to be released from Santa Clara County jail in September, after completing three months of his sentence due to good behavior.
MADRID – Spanish police say they have arrested one of Mexico’s most sought-after sex offenders, a man who allegedly took part in a sexual assault of a minor along with other men last year.
Police said the man was arrested in Madrid early Saturday on a Mexican arrest warrant. He faces charges of group pedophilia, which carry a sentence of 12-40 years in prison. He is expected to be extradited to Mexico.
The suspect and three other men of wealthy background became known derisively on social media as “Los Porkys” after a father publicly accused them of assaulting his daughter in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz in January 2015.
One of the other suspects has already been arrested in Mexico. The men have denied wrongdoing.
Sen. Bernie Sanders said Sunday that he plans to meet Tuesday night with Hillary Clinton about her agenda as the Democratic presidential nominee and will make other decisions about the future of his campaign after that.
“I simply want to get a sense of what kind of platform she will be supporting, whether she will be vigorous in standing up for working families and the middle class, moving aggressively in climate change, health care for all, making public colleges and universities tuition-free,” Sanders, I-Vt., said during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “And after we have that kind of discussion, and after we can determine whether or not we are going to have a strong and progressive platform, I will be able to make other decisions.”
Sanders told host Chuck Todd that he will have more than 1,900 delegates at the convention and that he needs to determine “what kind of agenda there will be if Secretary Clinton gets elected, if she wins the election.”
During a separate TV appearance Sunday, Sanders said he thinks it is “very unlikely” that Clinton would pick him as her vice-presidential running mate. The senator from Vermont said Thursday that he plans to compete in the final Democratic primary of the year, Tuesday in the District of Columbia, making good on his pledge to stay in the race until all voters have had a chance to weigh in on the nomination.
Associated Press & Washington Post
