Genarlow Wilson saga is at length discussed by Wright Thompson, very efficiently titled ‘Outrageous Injustice’ on the very widely acknowledged site ESPN. Com. I have followed this anecdote for some time now but it’s for the first time that I am inspired to share my views over this contemptible issue.

Having checked the account on the site - you would be familiar with it all, but here I ‘ll try and present the entire predicament form my prospective and yes, that’s exactly what I have to do here.

However, for those who remain aloof to this must ‘read and hear’‘ Outrageous Injustice’ I’ll just try and narrate - Genarlow Wilson is a former high school football star from Georgia, convicted of conceptual oral sex with a 15 year-old girl, cited as ‘aggravated child molestation’ back in 2004 when he himself was 17 and is currently serving a 10 year jail plus one year probation. The jury in Georgia marked the teenager a ‘victim of sex offence’ and charged Wilson on the base of the ‘age of consent’ in Georgia being 16.

Genarlow had been a good son, a great footballer and most importantly never a criminal - A workaholic athlete on the way to the Ivy League School, wouldn’t have thought where a juvenile act on the New Year eve could land him. He’s 20 now grown two years staring out of those thick iron bars wishing for freedom, though soon realizing what he now really is.

Once the hero of every eye has no one taking responsibility of his release - he’s left with nothing, he may live out the term of confinement but one thing that has forever been engraved on him will surely prefix Genarlow Wilson the tag ‘child molester’. His mother and adolescent sister have no one living up for the cause, they have shifted home to next country thinking this would relieve her pain - but which mother ever could sleep with child still awake.

The charge of molestation keeps Wilson detached from his family the cruelty rages to the extent that he cannot contact his sister coz she’s just 10 - The mother just hopes and wishes that he can return a person that he was, how far would you justify that, only that it’s a mothers heart. Once you are amidst the laureates of crime staying spotless is what I can’t justify, what say?

This fate was only his - the law under which Wilson was convicted was soon amended post his conviction, the changed act notifies that no teenager found guilty of consensual oral sex could be sentenced for a term exceeding 12 months and wouldn’t be labeled a child molester. Then does Wilson serving 11-year imprisonment get justified - according to the jury, amended rule couldn’t be applied to his case because of the way it was written. Had this law been in force before Wilson’s conviction he could today be a free kid, but sure, no one in Georgia will meet the same fate.

The whole case is a premature evaluation - the jury that convicted Wilson itself was unsure of its verdict and later stated that they failed to understand that the verdict would result in such a sentence, what does this say?

Wilson’s attorney has repeatedly made appeals though without any affirmative - the Douglas County, Georgia under its law has provision to undo his conviction but has refused to take any initiative. Georgian citizens have taken a step in the right direction to prove him innocent though, a major influx of opinions is need - hope it works for the kid.

A country that usually boasts of it being a perfectionist, I fail to understand how its State law can have such a loophole that killed the innocence. If at all, Wilson gains freedom what is his future...? With this I rest my case leaving the rest for you to ponder.

Read: ESPN