A student at a top US university whose six-month jail sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman in 2015 was widely criticised for being too lenient has been released from prison.
Brock Turner, 21, who was a swimming champion, assaulted the woman outside a Stanford University fraternity house, reports BBC.
He was freed from the Santa Clara County Main Jail in San Jose, California, after serving three months.
Inmates in California typically serve 50% of their sentences before release.
Turner, who left the jail without commenting to journalists, apparently intends to return to Ohio to live with his parents.
Under the terms of his release, he faces three years of supervised probation and will be registered as a sex offender for the rest of his life.
The local sheriff’s office in Ohio said Turner would be treated “no differently than any other sex offender we monitor”.
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