kiahzero
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Thu Jan-25-07 03:58 PM
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Prosecutorial Abuse: "Outrageous Injustice" |
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http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=wilsonDOUGLASVILLE, Ga. -- There is a cardboard box in Genarlow Wilson's old bedroom.
It rests on the floor of his empty closet, near the deflated football and basketball. It's filled with things he needed in his old life. Mostly, it's overflowing with recruiting letters, from schools big and small. A "Good luck on the SAT" postcard from the coaches at Columbia. From another Ivy League college, Brown, a note from the football coach: "You have been recommended to me as one of the top scholar-athletes in your area."
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When he was a senior in high school, he received oral sex from a 10th grader. He was 17. She was 15. Everyone, including the girl and the prosecution, agreed she initiated the act. But because of an archaic Georgia law, it was a misdemeanor for teenagers less than three years apart to have sexual intercourse, but a felony for the same kids to have oral sex.
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The next morning, the girl awoke in a stupor, wearing nothing but her socks. She called her mother and said she had been raped. Police came to the room after sunrise and took the revelers in for questioning. Genarlow had already gone home -- he didn't want to miss curfew -- but the video camera remained.
On tape, the cops saw a 15-year-old girl, a 10th-grader, performing oral sex on a partygoer and, after finishing with him, turning and performing the act on Genarlow. She was the instigator, according to her mother's testimony. Problem was, the girl was a year under the age of consent. Local prosecutors called the act aggravated child molestation, following the letter and not the spirit of the law, which was designed to prosecute pedophiles. This is a disgusting case of prosecutorial abuse if I've ever seen one.
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ChairmanAgnostic
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Thu Jan-25-07 04:11 PM
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1. this is but the start. |
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any budding pol, running for orfice, will pick some hot button issue to prove that they are anti-crime. And children and teens doing what comes natural suffer in the end.
Add to this the hatred of all things fun and sex-related by the Religious Reicht, and you have a recipe for a puritanical disaster not seen since simply being a Shaker in Boston was a felony punishable by death.
sex is great. teens should experiment, but safely, with education and understanding.
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