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Jailing a 17 year old for hormones?

Posted by writingtrue • 6/12/07 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: law, morality, politics, Privacy, religion, sex, teenagers

In Georgia, seventeen-year old Genarlow Wilson was sentenced to ten years in a Georgia prison for consensual oral sex with a fifteen-year old girl in 2003. Had they “gone all the way,” he’d only have been sentenced one year for intercourse, instead of “child molestation.” Two years into his sentence, a judge reviewed the case and commuted the sentence, giving Wilson credit for time served. Yet, Attorney General Thurbert Baker has challenged the judge’s authority to do so, taking the course to the Georgia Supreme Court. Wilson remains in prison.

This outraged me when I heard it on NPR this afternoon, and the above paragraph is from my latest blog piece (June 12). I doubt I'm the only one--what did you write? Let's take a look at each other's thoughts on this.

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  1. MadameX
    6/12/07
    MadameX
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  2. PrettyLady
    6/14/07
    PrettyLady
    If she was too intoxicated to have consented, you think the charge would have been date rape.
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  3. dharmagypsy7
    6/14/07
    dharmagypsy7
    I bet you his race had a lot to do with it. Had he been white.. it would been a totally different story.

    I lived in Georgia and there's still a lot of backward ideas that's accepted. Sad really
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  4. PrettyLady
    6/14/07
    PrettyLady
    dharmagypsy7, I don't agree that it was a racial issue.
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