Infuriating

So later last week I found this story about this 17 year old kid, Genarlow Wilson, in Georgia who is serving a 10 year prison sentence for receiving oral sex from a 15 year old. It was taped and the 15 year old girl even said in court it was consensual. Yet Wilson was found guilty and the sentence is a mandatory 10 years in prison and he has to get listed on the sex offender registry. They were 2 years apart!!!!!

So Wilson has now served 2 years in prison. They changed the law shortly after he was sent to prison partially because of his case, yet they didn't make it retroactive. So he's sat in jail for 2 years for something I would say nearly everyone did in high school. Maybe not the video taping part. But be real. In the original article they also said if they had actually had sexual intercourse he wouldn't even be in any trouble if I recall correctly.

Anyways a Superior Court Judge ruled today that Wilson can be released from prison. Victory!! Not so fast. The Georgia Attorney General has appealed the judge's ruling. So now he sits in prison still.

Amazing. It's this kind of thing that makes me more outraged than almost anything. What kind of incompetent racist jerk was the original judge who sentenced him to prison or this Attorney General for that matter? As sad as it is, I think it's safe to say that if Wilson were white this wouldn't even have been any thing I'd have heard about. Because he wouldn't be in prison. They would have just said oh it's two kids messing around.

That's despicable behavior on all fronts Georgia. Get your shit together, it's 2007. Ah... racism alive and well in today's society.

Today's CNN article