2007-06-14

Coerced Accusation in Genarlow Wilson Case?

Looks like the mother of the girl in the Genarlow Wilson case got coerced into pressing charges against the teen boys who had consensual sex with her daughter. She and the daughter wanted no charges pressed, but the DA "told her that if she didn't assist the prosecution, she could face legal trouble for 'neglect' as a parent." Interesting that while it tends to be lefties who defend guys like Wilson, it is lefties -- feminists, specifically -- who have gotten passed laws making it easier to make false rape allegations. Remember that Bill Clinton's mess with Monica Lewinski derived directly from his successful effort to give special status to sex crime accusations, replacing "presumption of innocence" with the surely now-disproved (thanks to the Duke rape hoax) maxim, "women never lie about rape." Thus when Jennifer Flowers sued Bill for sexually assaulting her, unlike for any other sort of accusation, her attorneys got enter facts about "previous conduct" unrelated to the specific incident; had Flowers sued Bill for pick-pocketing, her attorneys could not subpoena others to ask, "Has Bill ever taken a wallet out of your pocket? Did he have your permission?"

Update: Wilson described as 17-year-old who gets 10 years for receiving consensual felitio from 15-year-old schoolmate. Two years into this needless, unjust conviction, when a righteous judge overturns on appeal, prosecutors waste more time and money continuing to press the matter. This is what we get from combination of righties who get too hysterical over "tough on crime", and lefties who just as hysterically promote the claim that "women never lie about rape".

2 comments:

Nadir said...

"She and the daughter wanted no charges pressed, but the DA "told her that if she didn't assist the prosecution, she could face legal trouble for 'neglect' as a parent." Interesting that while it tends to be lefties who defend guys like Wilson, it is lefties -- feminists, specifically -- who have gotten passed laws making it easier to make false rape allegations."

Are you suggesting that the DA couldn't make a human decision and see that there was no harm and no foul? If they family didn't want to press charges, obviously there was no problem. The DA's choice to fry this young man could only have been motivated by one thing, and it certainly wasn't a burning desire to see justice served.

Paul Hue said...

I agree that the DA here indeed made a very big mistake, and continues this mistake now in appealing the new ruling. Your view and mine here are the same. I don't know if the DA would have done right by a white guy in this position, because reps of big organizations make dumb decisions like this all the time, but I agree it's possible that a white guy would've gotten justice.