Posted by
RabbiHaim on Saturday, July 14, 2007 10:52:40 PM
You may not know who Genarlo Wilson is. If you don’t recognize that name, you probably won’t recognize the name of David McDade either. Allow me to fill in some blanks.
Genarlo Wilson is incarcerated, sentenced to ten years in prison for having engaged in consensual oral sex as a seventeen-year old. His partner in that act was fifteen at the time. Genarlo has been in prison for three years less one month.
Since Genarlo’s conviction and sentencing, the case has become famous in Georgia. The case has become such a cause célèbre that Georgia passed a law which would make Genarlo’s crime punishable by no more than one year in prison. This new law failed to explicitly include Genarlo Wilson, and thus does not cover him.
Now it is time to be introduced to David McDade. Mr. David McDade is the Douglas County, GA District Attorney, prosecutor of the Genarlo Wilson case, and a distributor of Child Pornography.
According to a report published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Mr. McDade claims that he had to release the video: “McDade told the Associated Press that he was required to release the tape under the state's Open Records Act because it was introduced as evidence at the trial.”
“The tape” was a home video made at the [party] where the incident occurred, by one or more of the participants. Perhaps it was originally a “tape” but according to reports, including a report by Neal Boortz on his syndicated radio program, the CD was mailed to nearly everyone in the media. What this means, IMHO, is that the District Attorney should be arrested as a prime suspect in the Federal Offense of Production and Distribution of Child Pornography, including whatever offenses were committed by “mailing” [if that is how they were distributed] that same child pornography.
Again, IMHO, it is unconscionable that the District Attorney should be allowed to skate on this act. I also suggest that all members of his staff and/or whatever outside contractors who had a hand in the production also be indicted, and arrested if warranted for participation in the violation of Federal Child Pornography Laws.
The Talmud teaches us: If justice is not applied to any one, then justice is not being applied to anyone.