The father of an ex-Stanford University swimmer who was sentenced to six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman last week believes his son should have received probation because the 20-year-old has already suffered for “20 minutes of action.”

On Thursday, Brock Turner was given a six-month prison sentence for his sexual assault of a woman in January 2015 outside a fraternity party on the school’s Palo Alto campus. His dad argued that Brock’s label as a sexual offender, his loss of appetite and a swimming scholarship is punishment enough.

Ex-Stanford swimmer’s dad calls son’s 6-month sentence for rape ‘a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action’
Absolutely no question about where this young man got his skewed sense of responsibility for his own actions and the effects those actions might have on others. Piss poor parenting. It’s never absent in cases like this. It is all well and good to have your kid’s back and see the best in them but come on!

His parents should be ashamed of themselves for bringing up the inconveniences their son experienced because of his own, thoughtless, immoral,  and 100% criminal assault on an unconscious individual. His suffering will never begin to reach the level of the suffering he has inflicted on the actual victim (You know, victim… As in, not the perpetrator) in this case.

I hate to blame the parents for the actions of a legal adult but in this case I would say that they deserved to be tarred and feathered on their way out of town.