Internet Troll Creates Facebook Page Defending Stanford Sex Assault Assailant
PALO ALTO (CBS SF/KCBS) -- Supporters of a woman who was sexually assaulted at a Stanford campus party last year are furious over a Facebook page set up by an Internet troll to defend her attacker.
Since June 9 there have been 17 posts on the so-called "Brock Turner Family Support" page. The case drew worldwide attention after the judge sentenced the former Stanford swim star to 2 to six months in jail for sexually assaulting the victim as while she was unconscious.
Posts on the page refer to Turner as "our son," urge readers to "#PrayforBrock, and portray Turner's critics as "feminazis."
The page insults the woman and suggests suggests Turner is the real victim.
In an email to the San Jose Mercury News, Turner's lawyer said the family is not behind it and blamed it on Internet trolls.
Facebook has deleted some of the posts but will not take the page down, saying it does not "violate the company's community standards."
In an email Facebook says, "Not all disagreeable or disturbing content violates our community standards. For this reason, we offer people who use Facebook the ability to customize and control what they see by unfollowing, blocking and hiding posts, people, pages and applications they don't want to see."
Meanwhile, another Facebook page has been created to demand the Turner support page be taken down.
