A decade ago, Stanford sex offender Brock Turner ignited widespread outrage when he walked free from jail after serving just three months for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman behind a dumpster after a fraternity party.
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Since then, the 31-year-old registered sex offender has been quietly climbing the ranks at the Ohio factory that hired him after his conviction, and has purchased his own home in the same leafy suburb where he grew up, the Daily Mail can reveal.
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The former Stanford swimmer finds himself back in the spotlight as the 'Cornell 7' lawsuit reignites a national debate over how universities handle sexual assault.
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Those men, all former members of Cornell University's now-barred chapter of the Chi Phi fraternity, deny the allegations and no criminal charges have been brought.
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New York Governor Kathy Hochul has appointed state Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor.
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Turner, who had been a competitor on the Stanford University swim team at the time of the infamous 2015 attack, was earning around $12 an hour on the factory floor and living with his parents when he was last pictured in 2019.
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Now, the clean-cut ex-convict, who is using a different name, is listed as a supplier quality specialist at the same firm - Tark, a Dayton-area manufacturer of pumps and cooling systems for medical equipment.
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He paid $162,500 for a house in Oakwood, Ohio, according to public records.
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But as Turner has been picking up the pieces of his life, the picture-perfect family that fiercely rallied around him after his arrest and high-profile court proceedings has fallen apart.
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Turner's parents, who had begged a judge to go easy on their son at sentencing and pleaded for his freedom, divorced in April after nearly 38 years of marriage – and his mother claims none of her children will speak to her now.
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Brock Turner, 31, was spotted leaving his workplace in Ohio recently by the Daily Mail - a decade after he was freed from prison for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman behind a dumpster following a party at a nearby fraternity house
The 31-year-old convicted sex offender has been quietly climbing the ranks at the factory that hired him after his notorious conviction and he has since purchased his own home
Property records show the now 31-year-old paid $162,500 in December 2021 for a two-bed, one-bath house in Oakwood, the leafy Dayton suburb where Turner grew up and went to high school
When the Daily Mail spotted Turner going about his new life, he looked a world away from when his face was plastered across every news outlet more than a decade ago.
'I have no interest in speaking,' Turner told the Daily Mail just moments after climbing out of a 2015 Toyota parked outside his home.
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He was sentenced to just six months in county jail in 2016 – prosecutors had asked for six years – and ultimately served half that time, sparking international outrage and the eventual recall of Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky.
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Turner's victim, Chanel Miller, whose courtroom statement was read by millions, waived her anonymity in 2019 with her bestselling memoir, Know My Name, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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In January she published The Moon Without Stars, a novel for middle-grade readers, and she appeared at this year's Library of Congress National Book Festival.
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Turner, meanwhile, remains a lifetime registered sex offender in Ohio and must verify in person with the Greene County Sheriff every 90 days.
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He lists his employer as Tark.
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The Daily Mail photographed him leaving the factory in June 2019, when he was working an entry-level quality control job for around $12 an hour.
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A colleague said at the time that he had started there in shipping and receiving.
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Then 23, he was living with his parents and driving a 2008 Chrysler Pacifica.
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But public property records show he paid $162,500 in December 2021 for a two-bedroom, one-bath home in Oakwood, the Dayton suburb where he grew up and went to high school.
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Now and then: Turner remains a lifetime registered sex offender in Ohio.
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He is pictured on the left in his most recent photo taken for the sex offender registry and on the right in his 2015 mugshot
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Turner's parents, Dan and Carleen, divorced in April of this year, court documents show.
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The couple, pictured in 2023 with Brock and their other son, were married for nearly 38 years when they split
Brock Turner's parents, Carleen and Dan, were pictured together in 2016 after begging a judge to go easy on their son at sentencing and pleaded for his freedom
An online professional listing now gives his title as Strategic Sourcing Supplier Quality Specialist, a role that typically pays between $55,000 and $70,000 a year in the Dayton area.
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Turner has an office-based position overseeing the quality of parts bought in from outside suppliers.
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Tark was bought in 2024 by Laird Thermal Systems, a thermal management group majority-owned by German private equity firm Bregal Unternehmerkapital, which then renamed itself Tark Thermal Solutions in 2025.
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Despite appearing to thrive in his career, Turner's family life has taken a sad turn.
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Court records obtained by the Daily Mail show that Dan Turner filed for divorce from Carleen in Greene County Common Pleas Court on August 4, 2025, after more than 37 years of marriage.
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The couple, who married in Dayton on June 11, 1988, both cited incompatibility, and Carleen filed a counterclaim seeking spousal support and asking for her legal fees to be paid.
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After a pretrial hearing and a settlement conference, the case was resolved at a final hearing before Magistrate Amanda Holmes, with a divorce decree and separation agreement filed on April 13.
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Under the agreement, neither had to pay each other spousal support and each coughed up their own legal bills.
Dan, 64, who wrote a notorious letter telling Judge Persky that his son had paid 'a steep price' for '20 minutes of action,' kept the family home in Bellbrook, Ohio, where Brock was living with his parents in 2019.
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Turner's mom, Carleen, stood by her son following his arrest.
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They are pictured arriving the Santa Clara Superior Courthouse in Palo Alto, California, during his trial
In posts on her public Facebook page, Carleen has repeatedly addressed the end of marriage, writing 'divorce sucks' and 'his choice, not mine'
Property records show Carleen signed her share of the house over to Dan in April and that he paid her a lump sum for half of the equity.
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Carleen, 64, a former surgical nurse, was entitled to half of the monthly federal pension Dan earned in his career as an engineer at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, and half of the payments from an annuity in his name, court records show.
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Dan also agreed to pay her $10,000 to even out the division of their belongings.
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His list of possessions to keep ran to a full page – including the televisions, kitchen appliances, a 16ft boat, a kayak, dog kennels and gym equipment.
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Hers ran to four lines: a sewing machine, her remaining clothes and family photographs, a silver-framed mirror and an antique dry sink.
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Court papers show she has since moved out of the family home, with the court filings making zero mention of Brock or their other adult children.
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Approached by the Daily Mail at her new apartment just two miles from Brock's new home, Carleen said: 'I absolutely do not want to talk, sorry you came all this way.
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But in posts on her public Facebook page, Carleen has given her own account of the split, simply saying: 'Divorce sucks.'
'I will never recover.
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