Brock,
When I heard you were getting released after having served only half of your six month sentence I was - to put it lightly - pretty outraged. I know many of my peers feel the same way. Many of us feel that you haven’t learned your lesson. You still think that what you did was okay, and it really isn’t.
When your victim left her house that morning, she wasn’t asking for you to rape her. She wasn’t asking for her life to be changed in one of the worst possible ways, and she definitely wasn’t asking for you and your father to brush it off as simply “20 minutes of action.”
There is no excuse for what you did that day. You didn’t even give her the choice and you certainly didn’t care to give her the option to defend herself. She was unconscious and you took advantage of that in the worst possible way.
You may think it was a hard sentence that you got. Six months in jail must seem like a lot of time for someone who is used to having things go his way. You got off easy, though. You only had to serve half of that sentence, which you may see as justice, but the rest of us don’t agree. Your three months in jail and three years’ probation isn’t nearly as bad as what you deserved.
While you and your father may think that you got what you deserved, the rest of us don’t agree. There is no justice for your victim. She did not deserve what you did to her and there is no reason that you could give that would even come close to justifying what you did.
One would think that you would feel slightly guilty about what you did, but posting on Twitter and making comments like “Aah the good old days before SHE happened,” proves that maybe you’ll never change. The thing is SHE did not ask you to rape her and SHE did not happen to you. YOU happened to HER and I don’t think you understand how much your decision affected her life.
Yes, you may have to register as a sex offender in every state you live in. Yes, you neighbors will know about it and yes, they will look at you differently. For her though, she never will get any justice. She will probably never receive an apology from you because you still believe that you didn’t do anything wrong. She will live the rest of her life knowing that the man that raped her served a measly three months in jail.
You may think that you got what you deserved, but the rest of the world disagrees with you. Your case is just one of many reasons why rape culture is a very real thing. It’s people like you that make girls travel in packs, afraid to go anywhere alone.
I hope that one day you will realize that what you did is in no way okay. Maybe one day you’ll realize that you got off easy in the first place and that you should have served much more than three months behind bars. For now, I’m sure you’ll go back to your life and try to forget the whole thing ever happened, but I’m sure the rest of the world won’t let you forget it any time soon.
