“You don’t know me, but you’ve been inside me, and that’s why we’re here today.” The victim of a sexual assault at Stanford addresses her attacker after a judge sentenced him to only a six-month sentence because he worried that anything longer would have a “severe impact” on the defendant.

+ The assailant’s dad wrote a letter that only added fuel to the fire and included this especially poorly considered line: “That is a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of his 20 plus years of life.”