Sexual abuse at Stanford University generates outrage

                   

The parent of a student at Stanford University, convicted of sexually abusing an unconscious woman, is "in the eye of the storm" by delegitimize the crime of his son as "20 minutes of action."

The presiding judge in California, Aaron Persky also caused outrage by condemning Brock Allen Turner to six months in jail and probation for the abuse, saying that he feared a longer sentence the "severely affected".

Turner, a student of 20 years, he ran the risk of being sentenced to up to 14 years in prison for the crime, committed in January 2015, but is now expected to remain only prisoner for three months.

His father said during the hearing the sentence that her son did not deserve to go to prison.

"This is a high price to pay for 20 minutes of action of its more than 20 years of life," said Dan Turner, boy's father, the court in a statement published on Monday.

"(Brock) will never return to that being carefree with quiet personality and warm smile," he added.

The judge justified his lenient sentence saying that Turner had shown "genuine feelings of regret" and the student, a former swimmer, not a danger to society.

The statements of the victim, revealed at the weekend by the promoter, generated criticism on social networks against the sentence, considered too lenient.

The woman described how the abuse caused her psychological and rejection wounds to the body.

She said she agreed in a hospital bed in San Jose, California, with no idea of ​​what had happened and described the invasive examination which was submitted to seek evidence.

Turner also criticized for having stated in the judgment that "a night of drinking can ruin a life."

"To ruin a life, a life, yours. Forgot my," she said during the trial, looking into Brock's eyes.

Turner was convicted in March for three offenses: assault with intent to commit rape with an intoxicated / unconscious person, penetration of an intoxicated person and penetration of an unconscious person.

The case put into focus the rapes in American universities, where, according to one study, more than one in six women are raped during their first year of college while under the influence of alcohol or drugs.