Yet further evidence of the increasing insanity in America. I’m glad I was never a teenager in Georgia. Poor kid. 10 years for a blowjob?!
time.blogs.com/daily_dish/2006/1 … ustic.html
[quote]In Georgia, a seventeen year old boy has been sentenced to ten years imprisonment for the heinous crime of a spot of consensual oral sex with a 15 year old girl.
Eugene Volokh notes that the Georgia Supreme Court may have had no choice but to uphold this appalling sentence since:
The age of consent in Georgia is 16.
In 2006, the Georgia Legislature amended the statute to provide that oral sex between an under-18-year-old and a 13-to-15-year-old is only a misdemeanor, with a maximum penalty of a year in jail. This revised statute would have thus made the defendant’s conduct a misdemeanor had he committed his crime after the statute’s enactment, but the statute expressly provided that it wasn’t retroactive.
Even at the time the act occurred, genital sex between an under-18-year-old and a 14-or-15-year-old was also a misdemeanor.
4. This defendant had no criminal record that would justify an especially long sentence.
The presiding judge argued he had to lock the boy up for a decade without the prospect of parole:
“…while I am very sympathetic to Wilson’s argument regarding the injustice of sentencing this promising young man with good grades and no criminal history to ten years in prison without parole and a lifetime registration as a sexual offender because he engaged in consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old victim only two years his junior, this Court is bound by the Legislature’s determination that young persons in Wilson’s situation are not entitled to the misdemeanor treatment now accorded to identical behavior…”
A decade for a consensual “act of oral sodomy”? I suppose the lad’s lucky he isn’t being castrated. [/quote]