Stanford Rapist's Sentence: Now, With 'Good Behavior,' He'll Serve Only 3 Months

SAN JOSE, CA - The former Stanford swimmer convicted of sexually attacking an unconscious woman on the Stanford campus - and sentenced to six months for the crime - will likely serve half that, according to online jail records.

Records of the Santa Clara County jail show 20-year-old Brock Allen Turner is expected to be released on Sept. 2, just three months after he began a 6-month jail sentence for three felony counts of sexual assault.

Turner could have received 10 years in prison, according to state sentencing guidelines.

The early release is contingent on Turner's good behavior while in jail. KRON4 reports county jail inmates serve 50 percent of their sentences if they keep a clean disciplinary record.

The case has unleashed a torrent of social traffic and outrage since the sentencing was announced by Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky.

A petition calling for California Assembly impeachment hearings of Persky that seeks one million signatures had collected more than 910,000 votes of support by 12:15 p.m. on Wednesday.

Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen issued a statement after the sentencing was read:

"While I strongly disagree with the sentence that Judge Persky issued in the Brock Turner case I do not believe he should be removed from his judgeship. I am so pleased that the victim's powerful and true statements about the devastation of campus sexual assault are being heard across our nation. She has given voice to thousands of sexual assault survivors."

Another petition directed to the White House, also asking for Persky's impeachment due to "bias," collected more than the 100,000 signatures it hoped to gather.

The assaulted 23-year-old woman's 12-page statement was read in court and widely circulated online. It can be read in full in an article listed below.

It was revealed Brock Turner's father had asked the court for leniency prior to Persky's sentencing, writing that a stiff sentence for his son would be "a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of his 20 plus years of life."

John Pavlovitz, a pastor and blogger in North Carolina, responded angrily to the father's letter, saying "This is why young men continue to rape women."

Thursday afternoon, Buzzfeed published an open letter from Vice-President Joe Biden to the female victim, stating in part:

"I am in awe of your courage for speaking out — for so clearly naming the wrongs that were done to you and so passionately asserting your equal claim to human dignity.

"And I am filled with furious anger — both that this happened to you and that our culture is still so broken that you were ever put in the position of defending your own worth."

Also on Patch:

• Facing 10 Years In Prison, Former Stanford Swimmer Sentenced To 6 Months In Jail
• Stanford Woman to Attacker: 'I Don't Want My Body Anymore'
• Father of Convicted Swimmer Blames '20 Minutes of Action'
• Online Petition Calls For Removal Of Judge In Stanford Sentencing
• Father Blasts Dad Of Stanford Rapist In Emotional Letter

Image via Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office