I want to start out by addressing this strong, beautiful woman: Wow. Your story was no doubt the most uplifting, empowering message I have ever heard in my 22 years of being. Coming from someone that has every reason to hate the scumbag that took everything and your sense of being from you, you have truly inspired me. I am so sorry that happened to you. No person on this earth should have to go through what you had to endure, and for that I am sorry as well. I don't know if I would be able to do what you did if that would have been me. Just know that you did everything right, it's not your fault, and I'm truly sorry.

I recently came across an article on The Washington Post about a woman that was sexually assaulted behind a dumpster after a party. The story is going viral. People are in an uproar about it mostly because of the shocking sentencing of the boy (I call him a boy because no man would ever do such a thing to anyone). Brock Turner was sentenced to only six months in the county jail for sexually assaulting the 23-year-old woman. Turner, a former Stanford University swimmer (not that it matters), was found guilty of three charges: assault with the intent to commit rape, sexual penetration with a foreign object of an intoxicated person, and sexual penetration with a foreign object of an unconscious person. The assault happened back in January of 2015.

After the sentencing, this strong woman got up in front of everyone in the courtroom and read her statement. The full official statement can be found here. I encourage all to read it. Read every single word of it. It's long, but it is truly empowering and totally worth every minute of your time. In her statement, she tells the story of what happened from the moment the decided to go to the party with her sister all the way up until now. She tells the process and everything she had to endure over the past year with brutal life penetrating questions.

Turner's lawyer took everything and tried so hard to find the good in it in order to win Turner's case. After being found guilty, Turner's father wrote a letter to the judge saying that being sentenced to prison for the maximum 14 years he was facing is “a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of his 20 plus years of life." Many people, myself included, really want to deck the father in the face for even mustering that thought.

Brock Turner, like the little coward that he is, blamed the tragic incident on alcohol instead of being the man that his family thinks he is and taking responsibility for being the one to ruin someone's life forever.

Brock Turner, I hope that every single day of that extremely short sentence in jail you think about what you have done to that woman. Although she has expressed such a strong stance on this, just know that there are millions of people that would love to have "20 minutes of action" with you in a steel cage fighting to the death. Maybe one day you will become a man, but until then, I hope that you learn from this terrible decision. I hope that it hurts you just as much as it will always hurt her, and I hope that you never have a daughter. Everyone knows that you won't protect her. You have shown the world exactly how much you respect women. Congratulations.

Brock Turner's dad, you are what's wrong with the world. I really don't even need to say anymore. You are a terrible parent. We get it that you want to protect your little childish boy, but a real parent knows that punishment is needed in times like this. Stop being selfish. Your little childish boy deserves to sit in prison until he's learned his lesson, and a six-month sentence just isn't going to cut it. Period.