Genarlow Wilson, Why Aren’t You Pissed?
October 29th, 2007
Written By: Adam Sussman
I am sorry but I just do not understand why Genarlow Wilson is not pissed off at the world. Every time I see this guy on the news he is acting as if to let bygones be bygones. The guy was 17 and he hooked up with a 15-year-old girl and consensually had oral sex with her at a 2003 New Years Eve party. He was convicted to 10 years in prison for aggravated child molestation.
He has now served two of those 10 years and he has been released.
If memory serves when I was 17 years old I was in the 11th grade & I was 15 in the 10th grade. In the 11th grade the odds of hooking up with a 10th grader were more likely than not.
What I find astonishing is the fact multiple plea deals were offered to Gernarlow in exchange for time off, but the deals would have left him with zero prospects of having any type of normal life. If he pled guilty (to such a horrendously asinine charge) he would have been placed on a “list” which is shared by real child molesters and sexual deviants. If he agreed to any deal, he would have been branded for life.
I am pleased to hear he stuck to his principles and did not bargain with the prosecutors and I think Gernalow did the right thing by not admitting to fault. But if the shoe was on the other foot I would be kicking up a shit storm as soon as I was released from prison.
I am not sure what pisses me off more, the prosecuting attorneys, the judges and the jury of his peers who found him guilty or the fact he is so nice about the whole thing during his interviews.
