Stanford Rapist

The former Stanford University swimmer, whose sentence for sexual assault has been widely condemned as too lenient, spoke of drug and alcohol use before entering college, undermining his claims to a judge that he lacked experience with alcohol, court documents showed on Friday.

With outrage brewing over the six-month jail sentence in a rape case, Stanford University is defending its handling of the incident where a member of the school's swimming team was spotted by a garbage bin on top of an unconscious woman.

The former Stanford University swimmer, whose sentence for sexual assault has been widely condemned as too lenient, spoke of drug and alcohol use before entering college, undermining his claims to a judge that he lacked experience with alcohol, court documents showed on Friday.

With outrage brewing over the six-month jail sentence in a rape case, Stanford University is defending its handling of the incident where a member of the school's swimming team was spotted by a garbage bin on top of an unconscious woman.