Stanford rapist 'took photograph of his victim's breasts during attack - and shared it with swim team friends who deleted it after his arrest', police believe
Brock Turner sent a photo of his victim's breasts to
friends after the attack on January 18 2015, police believe - and one of
them deleted it after his arrest. His six-month sentence has caused
outrage. The suspicion arose because another team member, Justin Buck
(circled, right) texted 'Whos tit is that" (bottom right) to a group of
which Turner was a member. A witness told how Turner was seen standing
with his phone over his victim. Police believe one of his friends
deleted the image making it impossible to find. His phone also contained
images of him with a hash pipe (left), rubbishing his claim that he had
not used drugs before Stanford
He is due to graduate from Stanford with a major in economics next summer.
Unlike
other swim team friends of Turner, among them Israeli Olympic hopeful
Tom Kremer, of Los Altos Hills, California, Buck did not send a letter
of support to Judge Aaron Persky.
The reference to the message appears in the People's Sentencing Memorandum, which was prepared by prosecutor Alaleh Kianierci.
Part
of a section on cell phone extraction, which also covers the messages
exchanged by Turner and his high school friends about drug taking, it
reads:
'Shortly
after the Defendant's arrest in the early morning hours of January 18
2015, Detectives noticed a text message in the 'Group Me' application
that appeared on the Defendant's phone.
'It
stated: 'Who's tits are those?' [sic]. A search warrant for the
Defendant's phone was obtained and it was searched by the Santa Clara
County crime lab.
'Detectives were unable to locate the text from the 'Group Me' application or any photos related to that text.
'However,
they learned that when there is a third party application, the images
are not stored in the phone and can be deleted by a third party member
in the group.'
It is unclear who was a member of the group beyond Buck and Turner.
Blake
Bolton, a witness who was visiting Stanford on the weekend of the sex
attack, later told police that he had seen a man standing over the
victim with a phone.
In
his statement to cops, Bolton said 'the male subject was standing over
her with a cell phone. The cell phone had a bright light pointed in the
direction of the female, using either a flashlight app in his phone or
its built-in app.
'He approached the subject and asked if everything was okay. The male subject did not say anything to Bolton.
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