Teen given 10 years for having sex with another teen

[Jwrussell]

A bizarre case all the way around, but the facts were cherry-picked by the national media and spun so that Wilson appeared to be a victim.

Ummm...how was he NOT a victim?

...he was acquitted of the rape of the 17 year old.

Sorry, but consentual sex between to teens of that age is not a fricking crime (regardless of what the law states).

 

[cvm4]

It was always Ask but Don't Tell, when I was that age. This kind of stuff just makes me sick that common sense got left out of the equation.

 

[tubaman]

Ummm...how was he NOT a victim?




Sorry, but consentual sex between to teens of that age is not a fricking crime (regardless of what the law states).

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Well, it seems he wasn't entirely innocent either since it was 6 guys on 2 girls. Maybe it was all consensual, but apparently the 17 year old had other ideas. It was probably just to save face on her part, but still. That kind of group activity is a little different than what we might consider to be in the realm of "normal" activities for anyone, let alone teenagers. If that makes me a prude, so be it, but I pray my kids won't be so incredibly stupid as to put themselves in that position in the first place. Is two years in jail too much for such moronic behavior, probably but I bet he learned his lesson.

 

[no_substitute]

teens have been doing each other forever...no need to lock them up for it....jeez

 

[Ratbert]

Ummm...how was he NOT a victim?

Why was he a victim? He participated in group sex with a 15 year old girl. Another girl at the party claims the sex wasn't consensual. This wasn't a boyfriend/girlfriend hot & heavy in the back seat of a car. It was 6 guys on two girls, one of whom was underage.

When the police rightfully arrested the men, all but Wilson took their lumps and pled guilty. He decided to roll the dice with the legal system, knowing that if found guilty (and how could he not be found guilty, when the incident was on videotape?) he would get a mandatory 10 years w/out parole. In Georgia, what he did amounts to aggravated child molestation.

He committed a crime, took his chances by going to trial rather than plea bargaining, and was convicted. That particular act carried a mandatory sentence at that time, so once convicted, it was a done deal.

Now, I do believe that the sentence was too harsh. But, I'm just pointing out that this wasn't one of those cases where an innocent person was wrongly jailed. In my opinion, the news stories tended to lean that way however, intimating that he was innocent.

 

[blessednxs65]

All I know is that the sentence did not fit the crime. When you have murderers and the likes of Enron Executives fleedding entire families and being let off with a slap on the wrist... Was what he did wrong? Yes. What it immoral? Yes. Should he have served two years for this?

I think not.