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Originally posted by Rockaholic:
[QB]BTW the GA law on Statutory rape: From the CYCC in GA
[QUOTE]Per OCGA 16-6-3)

In Georgia, you can go to jail for having sex! The law states:

If you have sexual intercourse with any person under the age of 16 years, you will have committed statutory rape.

A person 21 years of age or older convicted of statutory rape shall be imprisoned for a minimum of ten and up to 20 years.

A person age 17-20 convicted of statutory rape shall be imprisoned for one to 20 years.

If the victim is 14 or 15 years of age and the person convicted is no more than three years older than the victim, the person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

It does not matter if you are male or female.

It does not matter if you are unaware of the victim's age.

It does not matter if the sex is consensual.
And the law under which Genarlow Wilson was convicted appears to be the following (the law has been upadted since then):
Found here...
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16-6-4
GCA § 26-2019: Child molestation; aggravated child molestation
"A person commits the offense of child molestation when he or she does any immoral indecent act to or in the presence of or with any child under the age of 16 years with the intent to arouse or satisfy the sexual desires of either the child or the person…. "A person commits the offense of aggravated child molestation when such person commits an offense of child molestation which act physically injures the child or involves an act of sodomy"
And, the really Bullshit part of all this is extremely unfortunate:

If he had had sex with the girl:

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If the victim is 14 or 15 years of age and the person convicted is no more than three years older than the victim, the person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
It would only have been a freaking misdemeanor. That's practically a slap on the hand!!

But, nope. The GIRL gave HIM a blowjob, and so instead, he was convicted under a "child molestation" law, and given 10 years in prison.

Poor guy should have just fucked her, to put it bluntly.

Whodathunk that if you're 17, fucking a 15 year old is LESS of a "crime" than getting a blowjob...

Even an idiot can see that doesn't make a whole helluva' lot of sense.

And that's why this case is an extreme injustice.