"I've been shattered by the party culture and risk taking behavior that I briefly experienced in my four months at school," Brock Turner's statement reads in part, according to the Guardian. "I've lost my chance to swim in the Olympics. I've lost my ability to obtain a Stanford degree. I've lost employment opportunity, my reputation and most of all, my life."
Turner last week was convicted of three felonies in the January 2015 incident: assault with intent to commit rape of an intoxicated woman, sexually penetrating an intoxicated person with a foreign object, and sexual penetration of an unconscious person. Judge Aaron Persky sentenced Turner to just six months in jail, sparking outrage and petitions for the judge to be recalled.
According to ABC News, Turner said he "made a mistake" because he "drank too much" in the statement, which circulated online this week.
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