Convicted rapist Brock Turner. Photo courtesy Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office
Get the VICE App on iOS and AndroidFormer Stanford swimmer Brock Turner left jail last Friday after serving just three months of his short six-month jail sentence for raping an unconscious woman outside of a frat party in 2015. When Turner got home to his family's house in Sugarcreek Township, Ohio, this weekend, a bunch of armed neighbors protesting his return welcomed him back, NBC Chicago reports."No one is going to shoot him unless we see him victimizing people," Micha Naziri said in a video, one of the several Greene County protestors to post up outside the Turner home. "Even if the justice system fails, the community is not going to fail."Protestors of all ages stood outside over the weekend and held up signs that read "Castrate Rapists" and "Shoot your local rapist" to reportedly keep Turner on edge.In addition to dealing with strangers brandishing rifles and holding posters on his front lawn, Turner had to register as a sex offender Tuesday and will begin serving three years of probation where he'll be continuously monitored by law enforcement. Greene County sheriff Gene Fischer assured the public that the 21-year-old would be treated just like every other sex offender, telling the Dayton Daily News, "We're not treating him with kid gloves."The case's controversial sentencing has caused California lawmakers to implement stricter sexual assault laws and prompted presiding judge Aaron Persky to stop hearing criminal cases after many criticized the Stanford alum for giving Turner too lenient of a sentence. Meanwhile, the commission working to get Persky off the bench condemned the armed protestors, saying they were a "trickle-down effect" of the light sentencing.Read: A Brief and Depressing History of Rape Laws
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