Dear Brock Turner,

Over a year later and your name is still one of discussion. A topic in which so many brave women stepped forward this year and told their story. A topic in which you are still denying that you committed any wrongdoing. A topic in which when hearing that you wanted to appeal filled me with anger.

So what if you had a swimming career and were an upstanding citizen before January 18, 2015? You ruined the life of a young woman who did absolutely nothing to provoke you.

The six-month sentence to prison that Judge Aaron Persky gave you, that you were released from three months early, plus the three years probation, is nothing compared to the trauma that you left on your victim. In fact, the sentencing was far too lenient and you should have been sentenced to the original 14 years in prison the prosecutor wanted to give you, if not a life sentence.

Oh, the sexual assault conviction hurt your reputation? The fact that you are a registered sex offender hurt your future endeavors?

Oh my, well, I am terribly sorry.

I am so sorry that you feel that way. I am sorry that you hurt a young woman who is taking the time to heal and try to regain confidence in being intimate with a partner ever again.

Screw the character witness testimony that was left out of your original trial. No character witness would ever be able to change the fact that you committed a crime. A crime in which you clearly stated it was rape but was filed as sexual assault. Screw the “My intentions were not to rape a girl...I was just trying to hook up with a girl.” Yeah, a girl that was clearly unconscious and not able to consent to anything you wanted to do.

Having your legal advisers focus 60 of your 172-page claim on the mere fact that the victim was drunk is pathetic. And having them also claim that there were “lies” in the filing, that the event did not happen behind the dumpster but by it, is absurd. Yes, she was intoxicated, but how does that give you the right to say that you were a victim of this crime? And how does the location of the crime change the fact that the crime occurred?

Let me tell you something: IT DOESN’T.

You committed a crime and you need to realize and understand that just because you were a good kid beforehand does not change that fact. Clearly, you don’t understand, as you are trying to appeal your conviction.

Imagine being in her shoes. Seeing that you could care less about the position she was in when you raped her, it's obvious you can't even begin to imagine the pain and trauma that comes with what you've done. So how about you imagine the humiliation and shame that victims feel when their attacks and society choose to blame them? You're drunk just like everyone else, male or female, doesn't matter, a night out with friends.

It's a normal night you think, but it's the opposite when you wake up the morning sore and without memory from last night. Next thing you know, you are thrown into a court case and what should be support coming from society and remorse from your attacker is not what you receive. You receive verbal attacks and you're blamed for something you couldn't even fight. Your life is RUINED and yet your rapist gets to sit there smug and knowingly off the hook. Imagine that's YOUR LIFE NOW.

I and many others stand by the fact that you should have faced the longest delivered sentence as the consequence of your actions.

You are a pathetic and vile human being and should live the rest of your life knowing that this event will follow you to your grave and beyond.