I love this letter to Brock Turner’s father from another father. He addresses how a father feels, but also the responsibility of a father.
This is by far my favorite paragraph:
If his life has been “deeply altered” it is because he has horribly altered another human being; because he made a reprehensible choice to take advantage of someone for his own pleasure. This young woman will be dealing with this for far longer than the embarrassingly short six months your son is being penalized. She will endure the unthinkable trauma of his “20 minutes of action” for the duration of her lifetime, and the fact that you seem unaware of this fact is exactly why we have a problem.
Read this letter, and read the victim’s. They are very poignant pieces.
See more of my pieces I have written on sexual assault.