PAULA NEAL MOONEY

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...

Duke Rape Accuser Gives Birth to a Baby Girl... and Adds a Whole New Twist to a Case that has Rocked the Nation by Paula Neal Mooney Here's the thing about the Duke rape case accuser reportedly giving birth to a baby girl tonight: It only serves to add more suspicion to a rape case that looks like it's falling apart. According to the "Duke 3" defense attorneys, DNA found on the woman hired as a stripper that night belonged to several males -- none of them the Duke lacrosse team trio on trial. And now the Duke rape accuser has given birth to a new baby girl exactly nine months to the day that she told police she was raped. As a black woman, I feel this pressure across the nation to side with her, but just like I refused to believe that O.J. Simpson was innocent of murder, I refuse to believe that these Duke boys are guilty of rape. Guilty of hiring a stripper, yes, something they probably might not do again. The whole thing smacks of ugly, icky racial and socioeco...