Genarlow Wilson's Injustice

I have a bunch of work to do.  I should be doing it.  Instead, I have been reading articles about Genarlow Wilson.  It is a horrifying tale of injustice.  Wilson is presently serving 10 years without parole in a prison just south of Atlanta, Georgia.  His crime, aggravated child molestation.  That doesn't sound like injustice.  Until you realize that the act of aggravated child molestation Wilson committed when he was 17 years old was to receive oral sex from a 15 year old girl at a party.  The girl who gave Wilson oral sex states unequivocally that it was consensual.  The girl's mother states that it was consensual.  Yet, under the letter of the law in Georgia, Wilson committed "aggravated child molestation" when he allowed an underage girl to give him oral sex -- a crime that carries with it a mandatory 10 year prison sentence.  When the foreman of the jury learned of the mandatory sentence after delivery the guilty verdict, she wept.  Yet neither the judge, nor the prosecutor, nor now the Georgia Supreme Court, did anything about this miscarriage of justice.  They delivered the sentence and Wilson sits in prison, a mere two tenths done with his decade long prison term.  And when Wilson finally gets out of jail, he will not be able to return home to live with his mother, because as a convicted "child molester," he may not live in the same home as his little sister.  While there is little we can do to help Wilson, it is a story that deserves to get out there.  Perhaps by spreading word of this gross injustice, the Georgia legislature will rectify this horror.  Spreading the word is the least that I can do.  I hope that you will do the same.

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