Stanford sex attacker’s father sparks outrage

The father of a Stanford University student convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman has come under fire for dismissing the crime as “20 minutes of action.”

The judge who oversaw the case in California, Aaron Persky, has also sparked outrage for sentencing Brock Turner to six months in prison and probation for the assault, saying that he feared a stiffer jail term would have “a severe impact” on Turner.

The 20- year- old student from Ohio had faced up to 14 years behind bars for the January 2015 assault but is now expected to serve only three months of his six- month sentence in a county jail.

His father said in a statement at the sentencing hearing last week that Turner, who quit Stanford after he was charged, did not deserve to go to jail.

“( Brock) will never be his happy go lucky self with that easy going personality and welcoming smile,” Dan Turner told the court in his statement

The father of a Stanford University student convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman has come under fire for dismissing the crime as ‘ 20 minutes of action’

made public on Monday. “His life will never be the one that he dreamed about and worked so hard to achieve.

That is a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of his 20 plus years of life.”

The case has put the spotlight on rape at US college campuses where, according to one study, more than one in every six women are raped during their first year at university while too drunk or drugged to be able to fend off their attacker.

The judge justified his lenient sentence saying Turner had shown “genuine feelings of remorse” and that the former swimmer did not pose a danger to society.

Details of the case went viral on social media over the weekend after the victim’s emotional statement to the court was released by the prosecutor, with many denouncing the sentence as a slap on the wrist.

“If someone’s a rapist and an athlete, they’re not an athlete who made a mistake, they’re a criminal who can also swim,” tweeted Lauren DeStefano, a US author, in a post retweeted more than 12,000 times.

In her statement, the victim described how the attack had left her emotionally scarred and made her “not want ( her) body anymore.”