Brock Turner is a new addition to the sex offender registry. Turner will have to re-register with the office every 90 days, and sheriff’s deputies will conduct random checks at his home. He attacked an unconscious woman behind a garbage bin on the Palo Alto university’s campus in January 2015.
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The 2015 assault drew national attention three months ago, when Turner was sentenced and the victim’s wrenching impact statement went viral.
In March, he was convicted of three felonies – assault with intent to rape an intoxicated woman, sexually penetrating an intoxicated person with a foreign object, and sexually penetrating an unconscious person with a foreign object.
Brock Turner has officially registered as a sex offender in Greene County, Ohio.
Greene County Sheriff Gene Fischer said Turner, a former swimmer at Oakwood High School and Stanford University who was convicted in a sexual assault in California, was required to register as a Tier III sex offender.
Turner’s father pleaded with the court for leniency, saying a long sentence “would be a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of his 20 plus years of life”. USA Swimming subsequently banned Turner for life, and Vice President Joe Biden wrote a powerful public letter to Turner’s anonymous victim.
Turner also has three years on probation left, but many believe that the punishment has been far too light.
He served three months of a six-month sentence before being released on Friday. The graduate students chased and tackled him when he tried to flee, holding him on the ground until police arrived. Prosecutors had argued for six years. There have been calls for the judge in the case, Aaron Persky, to resign, and there have been protests both in California and outside Turner’s family home in the wake of the verdict.
Persky is now the target of a recall effort, and he’s removed himself from sex-assault cases.
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On the registration form, Turner stated details of the sexual assault on a 23-year-old woman outside a Stanford fraternity.
