Brock Turner Case Study

I have a huge issue with the sentencing of Brock Turner, a former student of Stanford University. Turner was charged and convicted of three counts of felony sexual assault. He sexually assaulted a 22 year-old-woman who was unconscious and intoxicated behind a dumpster on the college campus. At the end, the judge sentenced turner to six months in a county jail and three years of probation. He also must register as a sex offender, and participate in a sex-offender treatment program. Turner is scheduled to be released tomorrow from a county jail – three months early for good behavior.
Turner is wrong ethically and morally – there is no question here. As for the judge who presided during the trial and the sentencing, however, is questionable. There is no recovering from sexual assault - the victim is emotionally and physically ruined for life. The offenders, on the other hand, often go free after a short sentence and commit the same crime again and again. I have seen many repeated sex offenders go in and out of the system twice sometime even more. To make the matter worse, most of the victims are young children. Some of the victims even grow up to be sex offenders themselves – it’s a vicious cycle.
Three months in jail out of possible six is just a slap on the wrist. While I understand that alcohol might have been a factor, the light sentencing gives future sex offenders an excuse to use in court. Ethical reasoning serves as an outline to evaluate human conducts by suggesting what is right and wrong, connoting commitment and duty that should be fulfilled in the society. (Paul & Elder, 2012) It’s a tool to evaluate behaviors that can impact others and in this case, Judge Persky clearly lacked ethical reasoning in this