Genarlow Wilson's Sex Video Tape -- Will Online Outrage Over Its Release Help Set the Honor Student Free from Prison? And what about the Jena Six?
by Paula Neal MooneyBy now nearly everybody has heard the plight of Genarlow Wilson, a 17-year-old honor student who should've been acing his SATs the day he was arrested on charges of rape, stemming from consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl as well as intercourse with another girl.
And now David McDade has released the videotape of Genarlow Wilson receiving oral sex at a party, claiming he was required to by law.
The unfairness of Genarlow Wilson's 10-year sentence even has Barack Obama championing his cause. Heck, I just might vote for that man yet...
I believe rape is wrong.
I believe child molestation is wrong.
I believe this is not why Genarlow Wilson is in prison.
Laws like this were designed to protect children from older scuzballs taking advantage of them, not to send a good kid to prison for what's been reported as consensual oral sex with a girl two years his junior.
There's such a thing as the letter of the law, and then there's the spirit of the law.
If all the sex that happened at the fateful party was in fact consensual, I believe that the two years Genarlow Wilson has more than paid for his supposed crime.
Thank goodness there weren't this many camcorders around when many of us were teenagers. There but for the grace of God were we covered....
Let's hope and pray that the new online outrage of the release of the videotape will do for Genarlow Wilson what it did for Shaquanda Cotton -- get him out of prison.
And I pray the Jena Six receives justice as well.
Keep your eyes on the prize...
Comments
The only problem I see with this is that their were copies made and sent to people who needed to review this case. The video does not seal the identity of other juveniles in this case. I believe it was stopped because of they did not take into account that this was just child porn being sent out, that would eventually leak to the internet and God knows where else.
I do hope that they do something about the Laws in that state, because this is not the first case I have heard like this in Georgia. Like the case of Marcus Dixon in Georgia, who was eventually released.Oh and he was an Honor Student with no criminal record.
This all sounds like stories my grandmother would tell me that happened in the 40's.
Come to Asia and see all these older looking single men snatching up youngsters, not to mention the things we don't see...
Always easy to convict 1 person and set your mind free of the 99 others you didn't see doing anything and you don't want to look for :-(
I've NEVER heard of any of these incidents:
JenaSix-
Whites ONLY shaded tree at a school??????????????
in 2007?????????????????????
10 years for Osex? DAMMIT, I have a headache. I'm so sad right now. I cannot explain it.
When I was young the saying was, "15 will get you 20" I guess it's still true...especially here in New York, irregardless of whether it was consentual, or not!
As former inmate from Federal prison, today I share with business executives and young people that simple message: Every choice has a consequence. http://www.chuckgallagher.com And, while I am extraordinarily sympathetic to Mr. Wilson's plight, his example has helped other young people evaluate the power of their seemingly simple choices. As the founder of the Choices Foundation, perhaps Genarlow would consider stepping up and helping others understand the power of choice.