Hundreds of thousands of people are calling for the removal of the California judge who sentenced a former Stanford University swimmer to just six months in county jail after he was found guilty of raping an unconscious woman on campus.
As of Wednesday, a Change.org petition demanding Judge Aaron Persky, 54, vacate his bench in Santa Clara County Superior Court has attracted over 633,000 signatures.
“We the people would like to petition that Judge Aaron Persky be removed from his Judicial position for the lenient sentence he allowed in the Brock Turner rape case,” read the petition.