This is a really disturbing story. In Georgia, a seventeen year old boy has been sentenced to ten years imprisonment for having consensual oral sex with a 15 year old girl.
The presiding judge argued that he had to lock the boy up for ten without 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..."
As Andrew Sullivan says 'A decade for a consensual "act of oral sodomy"? I suppose the lad's lucky he isn't being castrated.'
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