Joe Biden Writes Powerful Letter to Stanford Victim: ‘Your Bravery Is Breathtaking’

“You were failed by a culture on our college campuses where one in five women is sexually assaulted—year after year after year.”

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden arrives to deliver remarks at the White House October 19, 2015 in Washington, DC. Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images

Vice President Joe Biden wrote a powerful letter to the victim of the Stanford University sexual assault case.

His message, revealed on June 9, comes after Brock Turner was sentenced to 6 months in jail by Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky on June 2. He is now appealing the sentence.

The woman was sexually assaulted by Turner, then-19, when she was unconscious after a party on the college campus in January 2015.

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