Prosecutor Under Fire in Teen Sex Case - Genarlow Wilson

[Ghost in the Machine]

Prosecutor Under Fire in Teen Sex Case
Published: 7/13/07, 6:06 AM EDT
By SHANNON McCAFFREY

ATLANTA (AP) - District Attorney David McDade has handed out some 35 copies of a video of teenagers having sex at a party.

McDade says Georgia's open-records law leaves him no choice but to release the footage because it was evidence in one of the state's most turbulent cases - that of Genarlow Wilson, a young man serving 10 years in prison for having oral sex with a girl when they were teenagers.

McDade's actions have opened him up to accusations that he is vindictively misusing his authority to keep Wilson behind bars - and worse, distributing child pornography.

"This has been a ferocious, vindictive prosecution of Genarlow Wilson," said state Sen. Vincent Fort, an Atlanta Democrat. "What is going on is a vendetta."

McDade, who is district attorney in Douglas County, in suburban Atlanta, did not immediately return calls Thursday.

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[aquart]

1. And the other teenagers are also identifiable?

[Ghost in the Machine]

3. That's what I'm getting from it - - more from article..

"It shows Wilson, then 17, receiving oral sex from a 15-year-old girl and having intercourse with another 17-year-old girl. It was shot at a 2003 New Year's Eve Party at a hotel room by another partygoer.

Earlier this week, Georgia's chief federal prosecutor, U.S. Attorney David Nahmias, said the video "constitutes child pornography under federal law," and he called on McDade's office to stop releasing copies."


I lived in Douglas County for 9 years.. David McDade is an asswipe.

[aquart]

6. So he's destroying two girls to...what? Prove a point?

Of course, I have no words for any of the parents of these kids.

[bluestateguy]

2. This prosecutor sounds like another version of Mike Nifong

This time, however, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are standing up for the person wrongly accused.

[wakeme2008]

4. He knows this is Child Porn and no "open-records" law force

Child Porn to be released.

AH

[Richard Steele]

8. Damn right. "Kiddie porn" laws preempt "open records", and this POS know that perfectly well.

He needs to be removed from office so quickly
that he BOUNCES down the damn sidewalk.

[conscious evolution]

5. I wonder how hard it

would be to get charges filed for distribution of child pornography.

[aquart]

7. One should try and find out.

[conscious evolution]

10. I saw in the local paper today where that is being discussed.

From this mornings Atlanta Journal-Constitution

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2007/07/12/wilson_0713.html

Advocates of a Douglas County man serving a 10-year prison sentence for having consensual teenage sex are pushing for criminal charges against the district attorney who prosecuted the case.

[High Plains]

9. Wait a minute...

It's legal for two 17-year-olds to have sex in Georgia, but videos of them doing it is child porn?

That's weird.

At any rate, this young man should be freed immediately...and his place in prison taken by DA McDade.

In fact, I think no one should be allowed to serve as a prosecutor or judge without having first spent at least a week behind bars as an anonymous prisoner.

[aquart]

11. One girl was 15.