An old video from The Onion has resurfaced online thanks to it’s eery parallels to the Stanford Rape Case.
In the video, fictional basketball star Jacob Ross admits to raping a woman but manages to summon the emotional strength to play basketball as if nothing happened.
A narrator begins the video by introducing Ross as “an All-American, Big 12 athlete, a dedicated student and a fierce competitor.”
The video then goes on to interview Ross and his teammates, coach and friends as he overcomes his biggest battle - committing rape.
“His greatest achievement came off the court his freshman year when he overcame the trauma of committing a terrible rape” says the narrator.
Much like the case with Brock Turner, the video focuses on how inconvenient the crime has been to the perpetrator.
“Coach was really not happy with the fact that I had to miss practice because I raped someone,” Ross says in the fictional video.
“I thought: No way I can make it back after raping someone, but here I am” concludes Ross - drawing chilling similarities between fiction and
Turner’s own impact statement.
