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--The case of Genarlow Wilson, now serving a 10-year mandatory prison sentence for having oral sex with a 15-year-old girl as a teen, is just the latest to make the state's attorney general the target of protests.
Democrat Thurbert Baker is Georgia's top black elected official, but he has repeatedly found himself at odds with black leaders and his own party.
But Baker says the law is the law.
I am all for law and order, but this was a SUPID LAW and even the judge thinks Gernalow Wilson's sentence was a miscarriage of justice. He needs to be released now.
- Sex Education Classes Are Lacking According To Wilson
Lawyers and health educators say most teens - and even many parents - are unaware that even consensual teenage sex is often a crime. The patchwork of laws and ages from state to state leaves many confused and critics say more education is badly needed....
- Public School Teachers And Sexual Misconduct
Richland High School teacher was sentenced to 40 years for having sex with two students. A teacher in Tupelo got 18 years for a similar crime. But a teacher in Clarksdale, who was accused of giving an eighth-grade student gonorrhea, struck a deal with...
- Update On The Genarlow Wilson Case
Georgia's top court said Monday it will move up by three months a hearing for a man serving a 10-year sentence on a child molestation charge for having consensual oral sex with a fellow teenager Read the rest in The Sun Herald. ...
- Exclude Those Pesky Homeschool Winners
Roger Wilson, a Franklin Township supervisor who is a neighbor of the Reynolds family, helped circulate an e-mail appeal and a petition for Meghan's inclusion that has gathered widespread support and will be presented to the school board tonight,...
- Parade Saturday To Honor General Robert E. Lee
The Sons of Confederate Veterans plan a parade at noon Saturday along Montgomery's Dexter Avenue to the Capitol. The parade will be followed by speakers in the Capitol auditorium and the appearance of a Lee impersonator, said Leonard Wilson, the...
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The Genarlow Wilson Saga
--The case of Genarlow Wilson, now serving a 10-year mandatory prison sentence for having oral sex with a 15-year-old girl as a teen, is just the latest to make the state's attorney general the target of protests.
Democrat Thurbert Baker is Georgia's top black elected official, but he has repeatedly found himself at odds with black leaders and his own party.
But Baker says the law is the law.
I am all for law and order, but this was a SUPID LAW and even the judge thinks Gernalow Wilson's sentence was a miscarriage of justice. He needs to be released now.
- Sex Education Classes Are Lacking According To Wilson
Lawyers and health educators say most teens - and even many parents - are unaware that even consensual teenage sex is often a crime. The patchwork of laws and ages from state to state leaves many confused and critics say more education is badly needed....
- Public School Teachers And Sexual Misconduct
Richland High School teacher was sentenced to 40 years for having sex with two students. A teacher in Tupelo got 18 years for a similar crime. But a teacher in Clarksdale, who was accused of giving an eighth-grade student gonorrhea, struck a deal with...
- Update On The Genarlow Wilson Case
Georgia's top court said Monday it will move up by three months a hearing for a man serving a 10-year sentence on a child molestation charge for having consensual oral sex with a fellow teenager Read the rest in The Sun Herald. ...
- Exclude Those Pesky Homeschool Winners
Roger Wilson, a Franklin Township supervisor who is a neighbor of the Reynolds family, helped circulate an e-mail appeal and a petition for Meghan's inclusion that has gathered widespread support and will be presented to the school board tonight,...
- Parade Saturday To Honor General Robert E. Lee
The Sons of Confederate Veterans plan a parade at noon Saturday along Montgomery's Dexter Avenue to the Capitol. The parade will be followed by speakers in the Capitol auditorium and the appearance of a Lee impersonator, said Leonard Wilson, the...