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- Title: Romeo & Juliet Laws: When the Punishment Does Not Fit the Crime (Issues in Therapy)
- Author : Annals of the American Psychotherapy Association
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Psychology,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 216 KB
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In late 2003, 17-year-old Genarlow Wilson was an honor student in his senior year of high school in Douglasville, Georgia. Along with a group of other teens, Wilson celebrated New Year's Eve at a party in two rented rooms at a Days Inn Hotel. At some point during the party, a 15-year-old female classmate initiated and performed oral sex on Wilson, who had consented to the act. The following morning one of the partygoers--a 17-year-old female--told her mother she believed she had been raped during the party. After receiving the alleged victim's report, police officers went to the hotel and, in their search, discovered a video camera. Within the camera was a tape showing several of the teens having sex, including Wilson and the 15-year-old. Based on the contents of the tape, Wilson and five other males were arrested for sexual offenses against both the 17-year-old and 15-year-old females. Of the six males depicted on the tape, Wilson (who had no prior record) was the only one to go to trial. The other five (most of whom did have records), accepted District Attorney McDade's offer of a 5-year plea agreement. In August 2004, Wilson was indicted by a Douglas County Grand Jury on felony rape and aggravated child molestation of the younger female. McDade acknowledged the 15-year-old initiated the oral sex act, that Wilson was not violent or threatening, and that there was no victim (in that no one was harmed). Whatever his reasoning, McDade chose not to exercise prosecutorial discretion from the outset; that is, while it was in his authority to do so, he opted not to charge Wilson with a lesser offense (or none at all).
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