When Brock Turner, a former student at
Stanford University in California, was sentenced in June 2016 to only
six months for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, many people
were understandably outraged. And they were even more angry when Turner
was released on September 2nd after serving only half of his already
meagre sentence.
In response to this miscarriage of
justice, Yana Mazurkevich, a 20-year-old student at Ithaca College in
New York, decided to create the photo series you can see below. The
project, titled “It Happened”, was made for a sexual assault awareness
media platform called Current Solutions, and as you can see, the message
is pretty powerful. As Mazurkevich wrote on her Facebook page, “In
response to Brock Turner’s early release, this photo series aims to
continue the conversation on sexual assault, As well as to raise a huge
finger to Turner and his 3-month jail time.”
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