Brock Turner, 20, was convicted in March of three offences relating to the January 2015 attack - an attack that was stopped by two Swedish graduate students who happened to be cycling past and caught sight of Turner on the ground outside raping the unconscious and partially naked woman. Skynews
He was also sentenced to three years' probation and must complete a sex offender management program and register as a convicted sex offender for therest of his life.
Prosecutors had sought a six year prison sentence.
District Attorney Jeff Rosen said: "The punishment does not fit the crime."The sentence does not factor in the true seriousness of this sexual assault, or the victim's ongoing trauma.
"Campus rape is no different than off-campus rape. Rape is rape.
"In an editorial, the San Jose Mercury News,which had covered the trial, called the six-month county jail sentence "a slap on the wrist."
"Brock Turner's six-month jail term for sexual assault of an intoxicated, unconscious woman on the Stanford campus last year is a setback for the movement to take campus rape seriously," the newspaper said.
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