Brock Turner is officially registered as a sex offender.

After serving just three months for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman behind a dumpster after a party at Stanford University in January 2015, Brock Turner is back home staying at his parent’s home in Ohio.

In March, Turner was convicted of assault with intent to commit rape, sexually penetrating an unconscious person with a foreign object and sexually penetrating an intoxicated person with a foreign object. The maximum sentence for those charges is 14 years. Prosecutors pushed for a six-year prison sentence. Turner was given six months, and he was released after just three for “good behaviour.”

Many people, such as the armed protesters that camped outside his home, and really anyone with a decent moral compass, agree that three months definitely didn’t fit Turner’s crimes. But while it is felt that true justice has not been served, at the very least, Turner will be followed by the crime he committed forever.

On Tuesday, the 21-year-old convicted sexual assailant arrived with his parents at the Greene County Sheriff’s Office in Xenia, Ohio, to register as a sexual offender.

Brock Turner.

Turner will also serve three years of probation. Meaning that for the next three years he will undergo court-mandated drug and alcohol treatment and sex offender treatment. According to CNN,this will likely be in the form of group counselling sessions to discuss the behaviour and culture that lead to his committing a sexual assault.

As part of the program Turner will be randomly tested for drugs and alcohol and must submit to polygraph tests. He will also be required to check in with his probation officer at least once a week for the next three years.

But, because of the sexual offender registration, the rest of Turner's life is going to be very different.

So, yes Turner sentence was disgustingly light, but at very very least (and we meanveryleast) the rules of the sexual offender registry make sure that he will never be able to forget what he did.

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