By Kurtis Alexander
Updated 8:52 pm, Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Stanford Men's Swimming head shot of Brock Turner, dated September 18, 2014
Stanford University’s Brock Turner swims during a meet against University of the Pacific on Jan. 10. Turner will be charged in the rape of a woman he met at a campus party, Santa Clara County prosecutors said. A former Stanford University student and star swimmer will be charged with rape after he met a woman at a campus party and assaulted her as she lay intoxicated and unconscious outside, Santa Clara County prosecutors said Tuesday.
The district attorney’s office said two students on bicycles stopped to help after finding freshman Brock Allen Turner, 19, on top of the woman in the early morning hours of Jan. 18 on Lomita Court, near fraternity houses on university grounds.
“She was lying on the ground unconscious, not moving,” said Deputy District Attorney Alaleh Kianerci of the alleged victim, who is not a student.
The men on bikes restrained Turner, even as he tried to get away, and called police, Kianerci said. The woman, she said, was taken to a hospital and treated for her injuries.
“She’s recovering,” Kianerci said.
The district attorney’s office said it will file five felony charges against Turner on Wednesday: one count of raping an unconscious person, one count of raping an intoxicated person, two counts of sexual penetration with a foreign object, and one count of assault while attempting to commit rape.
If convicted, Turner faces up to 10 years in prison, Kianerci said. He was arrested after the alleged attack and later posted $150,000 bail. He is scheduled to be arraigned Monday.
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