Women Are Warning Each Other That Brock Turner Is Out and About in Ohio

“The criminal justice system has proven that crimes against women don’t matter, therefore we don’t matter,” Laroo wrote. “Women are forced to stick together and help each other out because if we don’t do it, no one else will.”

Her post has been shared over 18,000 times and amassed over a thousand comments, but Laroo isn’t the only woman sounding the alarm about Turner’s whereabouts in the Dayton area. Vice reported on scores of similarly worded disclaimers emerging on Facebook and TikTok.

“He has allegedly been stopped from leaving bars…with heavily intoxicated young ladies. He is also [allegedly living] 10 minutes from [University of Dayton] student housing,” reads another Facebook post, “so UD ladies you especially need to stay vigilant especially since we know has assaulted college aged women before and he views intoxication and loss of consciousness as an invitation for sexual assault.”

Short of staking out bars in Dayton, there’s no real way to verify Turner’s patronage. In 2019, Turner was reportedly living with his parents in the neighborhood of Bellbrook, but now, the Ohio registry for sex offenders indicates he lives in a two-bedroom home in Oakwood. A listing for the home, which is a little over two miles from the University of Dayton, states it was purchased in December 2021.

Turner was mandated to register as a Tier III sex offender (the highest offense) after being charged with three felonies—assault with intent to commit rape of an intoxicated/unconscious person; penetration of an intoxicated person with a foreign object; and penetration of an unconscious person with a foreign object—for which he was sentenced to just six months in prison. In a letter to the judge, Turner’s father infamously wrote that his son’s punishment was a “steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of his 20 plus years of life.” Several others, including an ex-girlfriend, also vouched for Turner. At the sentencing hearing, Chanel Miller, the young woman he violently assaulted, read a searing 7,138-word victim impact statement that went on to be published by BuzzFeed and preceded her memoir, Know My Name.

Ultimately, Turner was released from prison after three months for good behavior. In 2018, he attempted to overturn his sentencing, claiming he was simply attempting “outercourse.” His appeal was swiftly denied.

Today, women warning each other about his whereabouts seems to be a very small price for Turner to pay, and it can’t be overstated that his mere existence poses yet another terrifying reality for women in a state—and nation—already home to an endless supply of them.