Justice Served?

This poor kid. I understand what he did was wrong (according to the laws of the jurisdiction) but there's so many things wrong with this situation. For one thing, why did the woman in the well known child molestation case get only 90 days and this guy gets 10 years for doing something that just about all 17 year old boys want to do. (I mean have sex, not become a child molester).

yeah and people think the duke lacrosse players got screwed. they need to read this and shut the hell up.

No, not just. Not good what he did, but no way does he deserve any prison sentence.

His only fault is in living in a backward, reactionary outpost of civilized society. Bring on the banjos.

The Duke players didn't have sex with the whore who then made a false report.

Statutory rape is illegal in many states. This guy banged the girl. He won't serve 10 years. You also have to keep in mind you are reading a story from the mainstream media. To be blunt, almost everything in the mainstream media is white = bad, black = good. Refer to the Duke case. Who knows what this guy really did? Get the police report. It helped the Duke guys in the end. Then complain if it's really deserved.

Absolutely ridiculous in every regard.

The law is stupid in the first place. Other states that I know of allow a 2 year window as long as both parties are over some minimum age, so 15 and 17 would be ok. The fact that he would have committed a less serious crime by Georgia law had he had intercourse with the girl just shows how ass-backwards the system is. But it's Georgia, I mean we're talking about a legislature that would have this kid picking cotton on some plantation if the federal government hadn't taken that power from them.

While the DA says he was just doing his job, he is not obligated to try the case. I guess if some naked chick walked up to him with the intent of pleasuring him his first thought would be to make the girl show him some ID.

Hopefully the girl will at least be labeled as a whore for the rest of her life for her actions. That would be far less than what she deserves, but I guess it would have to do.

If I were on that jury he would have walked. We need better civic education in this country.

You're right about the double standard. If it were a white kid, you'd never hear about it.

Speaking of Duke:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16786991/from/ET/

Nifong is an ass. Another bend over to be PC self hater.

Bad times.

BTW, what is "Libertidad?"

Probability LV wrote:

Statutory rape is illegal in many states. This guy banged the girl. He won't serve 10 years. You also have to keep in mind you are reading a story from the mainstream media. To be blunt, almost everything in the mainstream media is white = bad, black = good. Refer to the Duke case. Who knows what this guy really did? Get the police report. It helped the Duke guys in the end. Then complain if it's really deserved.

did you read even half of the article?

there's actually no need to write anything else in response to your rambling post. go read the article.

that prosecutor is completely unethical and his quotation raises, in my opinion, serious constitutional issues. it sounds like he is saying that he can force an innocent person into pleading guilty in order to avoid the risk of a mandatory minimum sentence. he talks about risking 10 years instead of just pleading guilty and taking 2. i'm too lazy to pull up the quote, but if you read it, i think you'll see what i mean.

and if he reduces the charges now, which he can, he'll lose leverage in future mandatory minimum cases. there's only one bad guy in that story, and it's the prosecutor. the defense lawyer should have put all her energy and mark cuban's resources into defeating him in his last election (assuming he holds an elected position as most D.A.'s do).

Meant "Libertad" - Spanish for liberty.

that article is one of the most disgusting and outrageous things i've ever read. i am incredulous that this could occur in 21st century america. i guess i'm naive.

Dimes to dollars says the girl was white. That's what this is all about. These backass Southerners hate that s*@t. The image of a white girl giving a black guy a bj irrates them to no end!

why the hell did they videotape it...they shouldnt have done that!

van morrison wrote:

why the hell did they videotape it...they shouldnt have done that!

Really, if anything them filming was the best thing they could have done. She came out of the situation claiming rape, but the video shows her initiating the conduct. What's hurting him is the age of consent law, but when they are both underage that law should be voided - obviously it's not though.

This whole situation is aboslutely awful. I wish there was a way to do something about this.

Yankee transplant wrote:

Dimes to dollars says the girl was white. That's what this is all about. These backass Southerners hate that s*@t. The image of a white girl giving a black guy a bj irrates them to no end!

Yes, she was white.

While this topic doesn't have to do with running, I hope the mods don't yank it because this story really does need to be seen by as many people as possible.

maybe i read this wrong, but i thought that it was a 17 year old girl who he had sex with that cried rape, and a different 15 year old who gave the bj. so not only was there no rape, there was no statutory rape as there was no sex with a minor. i think the article mentioned that the law was harsher for oral sex than for "actual" sex.

Well... wrote:

Yankee transplant wrote:

Dimes to dollars says the girl was white. That's what this is all about. These backass Southerners hate that s*@t. The image of a white girl giving a black guy a bj irrates them to no end!

Yes, she was white.

While this topic doesn't have to do with running, I hope the mods don't yank it because this story really does need to be seen by as many people as possible.

Actually, as has already happened, this thread will attract people who say that the article is a form of reverse discrimination without actually reading it. I'd rather this thread get deleted than watch that happen.