“20 Minutes of Action”: A Father’s Response To Dan Turner’s Statement

This article was written by Kyle Suhan and originally appeared on Christine Suhan’s blog on June 6, 2016.  
Sex is always intentional, and [my sons] are going to understand that even consensual sex needs to be cared for with the utmost delicacy.“That is a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of his 20 plus years of life. The fact that he now has to register as a sexual offender for the rest of his life forever alters where he can live, visit, work and how he will be able to interact with people and organizations. What I know as his father is that incarceration is not the appropriate punishment for Brock.” —Dan Turner
Steep? Mount Everest is steep. The peak of the emotional roller coaster Brock Allen Turner’s rape victim has only begun to descend is steep. Six months in jail is a joke; a speed bump, if you will. The “20 minutes of action” that Brock’s father minimizes in his above statement will haunt his victim for the rest of her life. It may have been a measly twenty minutes for him but for her, the impact of those twenty minutes will weave into every fiber of her being, every facet of her life, for its entirety.  In her letter, the rape victim states that she, “does not remember” the night Brock penetrated, groped, and left her behind a dumpster. But what she will soon find out is that her body will not let her forget. I know this because I married a victim of a college rape.
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Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - June 15, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Parenting Uncategorized Source Type: blogs