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Teen appeals 10-year jail sentence for sex with 15-year-old girl

Sparks, Leonard
Baltimore Afro-American
03-24-2006
A Georgia teen is appealing a 10-year prison term he was given last year
for having oral sex with a 15-year-old girl. It is a case that is again
drawing national attention to Georgia child molestation laws that call for
stiff mandatory sentences, even for teens having consensual sex.

Genarlow Wilson, a star athlete, honor student and homecoming king at
Douglas County High School in Douglasville, Ga., was found guilty of
aggravated child molestation in February 2005, after a five-day trial. In
addition to the prison sentence, the law also requires him to register as a
sex offender for the rest of his life.

"The kid would have gone to college," said ...

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