The United States is shocked by a court decision allowing the release of a young man accused of rape.
In the United States, the excitement after the release of a young man accused of rape is great. Last Friday, Bowen Turner pleaded guilty to assault and assault while initially facing charges of sexual assault. But his charges were eased thanks to an agreement with the courts that allowed him to be sentenced to just 5 years probation. During these five years, he must respect the law but does not have to be registered in the sex offenders database. After the verdict was announced last week, Chloe Bess, one of the two victims, said she was “extremely disappointed,” Fox News reported. “I have a feeling whatever is said, people will go numb. It’s a sense of defeat, but I refuse to lose,” she explained.
This case is all the more shocking because when Chloe Bess was attacked in 2019, Bowen Turner was charged in a similar case that happened a year earlier. He was released on bail. In October 2018, at the age of 16, he allegedly sexually assaulted Dallas Hayes Stoller. The girl was allegedly raped at a party. Her friends had found her lying unconscious on the floor as Bowen Turner lay on her and put her pants back on. She had scratch marks and bruises all over her body. Both were then students at the Orangeburg Preparatory School. The young girl had filed a complaint and the affair had escalated to the point where she was the victim of harassment from classmates and even teachers. She then changed schools and enrolled at the University of Charleston, but students who knew about the affair continued to insult her. Given the pressure, she would have started to sink, developed ulcers and was hospitalized several times from “self-inflicted injuries” until her death in November 2021, according to website Crimeonline. After his death, the charges against Bowen Turner were dropped.
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Chloe Bess also says she was raped at a party. “I was just trying to have a normal night out, I was in high school,” she said on the latest episode of Crime Stories. “Long story short, I eventually went out to make a phone call and he followed me and ended up pulling me down a forest road behind a truck into the woods and the last thing I know is it’s my turn the reason that I am very small and he is not”. “I was petrified, I remember looking up at the sky and praying it would stop so I could run away,” she said again, this time quoted by WRDW. The young girl explains that she also warned the police the next day, but “unfortunately I was aware of the Dallas case and I saw how people reacted and that really scared me”. A third victim also accused Bowen Turner, but charges were never brought in this case for unspecified reasons.
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Chloe and Dallas’ families claim no one came to tell them a settlement with the accused would be reached last week. “It’s like robbing a store with a gun but only getting prosecuted for stealing candy,” Chloe Bess laments. Additionally, while Bowen Turner should have been at home under house arrest awaiting his trial, his electronic bracelet showed he had visited dozens of different locations, including 19 trips to golf courses, as well as trips to restaurants, sporting goods stores and even a car dealership,” the justice said. Chloe Bess, her family and those of Dallas Stoller have accused authorities of not taking action when they knew the young man had broken the rules. He should have been taken into custody.
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On January 4, Bowen Turner would also have visited Dallas Stoller’s grave. There is now a sign: “Bowen Turner, you are NOT welcome here.” Last week’s court hearing was supposed to have taken place for breaking his house arrest, but it ended up being a court settlement in the rape case. Bowen Turner’s attorney is South Carolina State Senator Brad Hutto. During a 2019 hearing, powerful attorney Chloe Bess humiliated, stating the report was consensual. In response to a statement from the young girl, who said she was ashamed, he replied: “Imagine you’ve just had sex on the floor with a boy you hardly know and then you’re ashamed, you regret it, but it is not rape. . “She didn’t fight back, she didn’t scratch him, she didn’t push him or yell at him. She didn’t say no, she didn’t tell him to stop,” he continued. “The system of injustice…corruption and nepotism make it impossible to protect the citizens of South Carolina,” said Reverend Dr. Darren Bess, Chloe’s father, last week.