Brock Turner makes his way into the Santa Clara Superior Courthouse in Palo Alto, California. Picture: Dan Honda/Bay Area News Group via AP

Turner, 20, was found guilty of three counts of sexual assault in March, and faced a maximum of 14 years in state prison. Last week he was sentenced to six months jail and three years probation for the crime.

In a statement, Dan Turner said time behind bars was a “steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action”, and said his son should only be put on probation.

He was criticised for failing to take responsibility for his son’s actions and acknowledge the impact on the victim, a now 23-year-old woman.

So Twitter user Ali Ozeri decided to edit the statement to include phrases she thought should have been used in the first place.

Brock Turner. Picture: Timothy Binning/TheSwimPictures.comSource:Supplied

Here is Dan Turner’s original statement:

“As it stands now, Brock’s life has been deeply altered forever by the events of Jan 17th and 18th. He will never be his happy go lucky self with that easy going personality and welcoming smile. His every waking minute is consumed with worry, anxiety, fear and depression.

“You can see this in his face, the way he walks, his weakened voice, his lack appetite. Brock always enjoyed certain types of food and is a very good cook himself. I was always excited to buy him a big rib eye steak to grill or to get his favourite snack for him.

“I had to make sure to hide some of my favourite pretzels or chips because I knew they wouldn’t be around long after Brock walked in from a long swim practice. Now he barely consumes any food and eats only to exist.

“These verdicts have broken him and shattered him and our family in so many ways. His life will never be the one that he dreamt about and worked so hard to achieve.

“That is a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of his 20 plus years life. The fact that he now has to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life forever alters where he can live, visit, work, and how he will be able to interact with people and organisations.

“What I know as his father is that incarceration is not the appropriate punishment for Brock. He has no prior criminal history and has never been violent to anyone including his actions on the night of Jan 17th 2015.

“Brock can do so many positive things as a contributor to society and is totally committed to educating other college students about the dangers of alcohol consumption and sexual promiscuity.

“By having people like Brock educate others on college campuses is how society can begin to break the cycle of binge drinking and its unfortunate results.

“Probation is the best answer for Brock in this situation and allows him to give back to society in a net positive way.

“Very Respectfully, Dan A. Turner.”

Dan Turner, Brock's father has ignited more outrage over the case by saying his son already has paid a steep price for "20 minutes of action". Picture: Santa Clara County Sheriff via APSource:AP

Here is the altered response created by Ali Ozeri. The changes are highlighted in bold:

“As it stands now, Brock’s life has been deeply altered forever by the events (raping an unconscious woman) of Jan 17th and 18th. He will never be his happy go lucky self with that easy going personality and welcoming smile that was there the whole time he was raping a young woman thinking he wouldn’t get caught.

His every waking minute is consumed with not taking responsibility for the rape he committed. You can see this in his face, the way he walks, the fact that he took the girl he raped to trial and blamed it on her, his weakened voice, his lack of appetite.

Brock always enjoyed certain types of food before he raped someone and is a very good cook himself. I was always excited to buy him a big rib eye steak to grill, but it just wasn’t the same after he raped an innocent young woman.

I had to make sure to hide some of my favourite pretzels or chips, because I knew they wouldn’t be around long after Brock walked in from swim practice, but these cute details don’t have anything to do with the rape he committed.

Now he barely consumes any foods and eats only to exist because he screwed his own life and many other lives by raping someone. The verdicts have broken and shattered him and our family in so many ways, because our son is now rapist.

His life will never the one that he dreamt about and worked so hard to achieve, the one where he gets to rape a beautiful strong human being and then go back to his swim meet.

This is a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action ie raping someone out of his 20 plus years of life. This isn’t like the three second rule for food, rape still counts no matter how many seconds it lasts. This is rape.

Brock Turner is a former Stanford University swimmer. Picture: Timothy Binning/TheSwimPictures.comSource:Supplied

The fact that he now has to register as a sexual offender for the rest of his life forever alters where he can live, visit, work, rape, and how he will be able to interact with people who don’t want to be raped and organisations who don’t want their employees to be raped.

What I know as his father is that incarceration is not the punishment for Brock, but a longer punishment meant for a rapist.

He has no prior criminal history (aside from this rape) and has never been violent to anyone (except for this rape) including his actions (and you know what that means — rape) on the night of Jan 17th 2015. Bringing up the fact that this was only his first rape is liking bringing up that it’s somebody’s first murder or first terror attack, so it’s still a crime.

Brock can do so many positive things as a contributor to society, but instead he chose to rape someone, and is totally committed to educating other college students about the dangers of alcohol consumption and sexual promiscuity, which is irrelevant because he should be talking about how he shouldn’t have raped someone.

By having people like Brock educate others on college campuses is how society can begin to break the cycle of drinking and its unfortunate results and get misinformation from a rapist with a light sentence.

Probation is the best answer for Brock in this situation and allows him to give back to society in an unjust and seriously creepy way.

Very respectfully and Ignorantly,

Dan A. (father of a rapist) Turner.”

If you or someone you know is impacted by sexual assault, domestic or family violence, call 1800 RESPECT on 1800 737 732 or visit 1800RESPECT.org.au. In an emergency, call 000.