Justice For Teen In
Consensual Oral Sex Case

Georgia’s Supreme Court today ruled that Genarlow Wilson, who was sentenced for 10 years in prison for receiving oral sex when he was 17 from a willing 15-year-old girl, should be released, saying that his punishment was “cruel and unusual”.

Hopefully, Wilson should be home some time today, his lawyer, B.J. Bernstein, told CNN.

Wilson has already spent more than two years in prison for having consensual oral sex with a teenage girl at a New Year’s Eve party in 2003.

As was mentioned before, Wilson should not have been placed in prison for doing something that normal teenagers do. And as said before, District Attorney David McDade and Attorney General Thurbert Baker could have prevented this travesty by not charging Wilson with felony aggravated child molestation, which is a 10-year mandatory sentence.

But it’s a shame that other district attorneys and attorney generals don’t have the same zing as McDade and Baker. While Wilson was sentenced for 10 years in jail for receiving “oral entertainment” from a willing 15-year-old girl, we have a 46-year-old New York man, Edward Miller, who may get one to four years for raping a teenage girl 68 times over a period of two years.

We have enough to fear with animals like Edward Miller running around but what we don’t need are district attorneys and attorney generals who don’t know that they can exercise their right to not press charges when it comes to consensual sexual relations between two teenagers.

Hopefully, Wilson’s ordeal will be over soon and will be home with his family by the end of today. But the overzealous actions of Baker and McDade have already shattered this young boy’s life, who had a promising football career ahead of him.

Whatever justified bitterness and resentment that Wilson has over this affair, hopefully he won’t let that poison him and he can start making plans for a bright future.

Does Race Play In Wilson Case?

Some people have said that Genarlow Wilson’s nightmare is a racial case. Wilson is a black man, who in 2003, at age 17, had consensual oral sex by a black 15-year-old girl.

And then we have Douglas County District Attorney David McDade, a white man, who tried Wilson that resulted in a 10-year prison sentence.

Well, one can certainly see how race may have motivated the case and at first, I thought so too. But then there is Attorney General Thurbert Baker, a black man, who is appealing Judge Thomas H. Wilson’s ruling that would set Wilson free.

The law that was used against Wilson gave a 10-year mandatory sentence for statutory rape. After Wilson’s trial, the law was changed to become a misdemeanor aggravated child molestation, with a 12-month term. This would have freed Wilson, because Judge Wilson, no relation, gave the young man credit for time served.

However, Baker said that according to Georgia law, a judge cannot reduce or changed a sentence imposed by the trial court. He’s also concerned that Judge Wilson’s ruling would allow real sex offenders the chance to be released.

Hmm, let’s see: One guy at 17 had consensual oral sex with a willing 15-year-old girl and then there’s another guy whose 17 who brutally raped an unwilling 15-year-old girl. Gee, who do you think should be released?

But since common sense hasn’t played a big part in the Wilson’s case from the very beginning, I can see Baker’s side.

And it’s pretty embarrassing to appeal Judge Wilson’s ruling, considering that this is now a high-profile case. Does Baker even realize what happen when Mike Nifong, the disbarred prosecutor of the infamous Duke lacrosse “rape” case, did when he decided to practice injustice? Because this is what the Wilson case is and what Baker is doing: injustice.

The grounds are not strong enough to disbar Baker but come election time, the voters may disbar Baker themselves.

And let’s not forget that it was Baker that Wilson is in jail in the first place. He could have easily dropped the charges long before Wilson would stand on trial but he didn’t.

I don’t see how someone can now make this into a racial case when Baker, a black man, is appealing. And here’s an offer that Baker must have approved for Wilson: serve up to five years in prison and your name will be removed from the sex offender registry. That’s still an insult.

Hey Baker, here’s a better offer: Work your tail off to set Wilson free so he doesn’t have to spend another night in prison! Until that happens, Baker’s offers are a slap in the face.

No, I don’t see how this is a racial issue but it is an issue of the same dangerous kind: Stupidity.

No Justice In Consensual
Statutory Rape Case

There’s no get-out-of-jail-free card for Genarlow Wilson, a 21-year-old man serving a 10-year prison sentence for statutory rape of a 15-year-old girl, even though it was consensual oral sex, back in 2003, when Wilson was 17. Sadly for Wilson, the D.A. in the case forgot what the term “consensual” meant.

A few days ago, Georgia Superior Court Judge David Emerson denied Wilson bail, even though earlier this month a court voided the original sentence and reduced it to one year, with time served. Wilson has already served two years.

Here’s the deal: At a New Year’s Eve party in 2003, Wilson, then 17, he received, shall we say, “oral relaxation” from a more then willing 15-year-old girl. Of course she was willing, because according to a videotape of the party that was used in the trial, she gave “oral entertainment” to another party guest before going to Wilson.

Because of a law at that time, Wilson was convicted of felony aggravated child molestation. It doesn’t make sense, since the “child” in this case was only two years younger than Wilson.

So, not only is Wilson known for such a grievous form of injustice, he also has to deal with snide jokes about his lawyer's name: B.J. (Brenda Joy) Bernstein. Out of good taste and respect for Wilson, there won’t be any jokes about oral sex or prison.

But the biggest joke of all is David McDade, the D.A. who prosecuted the first case that ended with Wilson behind bars. He said he realizes that the 10-year mandatory sentence was too harsh but he couldn’t turn a blind eye to the “crime” since it was videotaped. In fact, McDade even went so far and blamed everything on Wilson.

“We don’t believe that a 10-year sentence is an appropriate punishment (in this case), but he made that decision to put himself in that predicament,” explained McDade to Atlanta Magazine, of Genarlow’s refusal to cop a plea. McDade said Wilson decided to be a martyr because people told him he could be famous.

Actually, Wilson decided to fight because he didn’t want to spend 10 years in prison doing what that 15-year-old girl did to him at that party, except it won’t be consensual for him. (Please note that this isn’t a joke.) Plus, after he gets out, he will be registered as a sex offender. And if McDade was in Wilson’s situation, he would fight the charges too.

McDade could have dropped the charges against Wilson; he had that type of power. But no, instead he decided to haul Wilson to court. Maybe McDade is the one who wanted to be famous.

And poor Wilson, a bright guy who had a bright football career ahead of him, with colleges after him to play football. But that’s all gone now and whatever college dreams Wilson could have salvaged now are gone because Attorney General Thurbert Baker is appealing the one-year ruling that could have set him free.

In a world where Jose Antonio Lopez only gets three years in jail for a real rape of a 15-year-old girl and Wilson is serving a decade for receiving consensual oral sex, maybe there isn’t justice in the world anymore.