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 Mooney By 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 t...