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Georgia's Sex Offender Law Called "Mindlessly Harsh"

By Corey Rayburnyung

Although it is not the first Georgia newspaper to recognize the problem, the Augusta Chronicle ran an excellent op-ed piece arguing against Georgia's one-size-fits-all approach to sex offender regulation. From the editorial:Should the law punish a motorist who is ticketed for a broken tail light as harshly as it punishes a drunken driver with multiple offenses who's found guilty of causing a fatal crash? storyPhotos(); Of course not. Traffic law violations, like other crimes, are punished according to the seriousness of the offense. But that's not necessarily true when it comes to Georgia's sex offender law. Just ask Wendy Whitaker of Harlem. More than 10 years ago, when she was a 17-year-old high school student, she engaged in consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old male classmate...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on November 19, 2008 (boomark / email).