Comments on: Genarlow Wilson http://karenrayne.com/2007/06/12/genarlow-wilson/ Thu, 17 May 2012 22:40:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Dorian http://karenrayne.com/2007/06/12/genarlow-wilson/comment-page-1/#comment-96 Dorian Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:45:00 +0000 http://karenrayne.com/?p=69#comment-96 I appreciate you giving the whole story here - I read yesterday about him being released - the honor student jailed for 10 years for consensual sex between a 15 year old and a 17 year old. That seemed extremely unreasonable and I was glad it was changed. I was unaware of the sex with the woman who was obviously incapable of consent. That is rape. I know that in our 'justice' system, sometimes we ignore one thing because something else is more able to addressed. But, in this case, the wrong thing was addressed and I am very distressed about a rapist essentially being told he didn't rape.<br/>I work for the military and there is a lot of effort going into education in this area - teaching young men and young women that once more than 1 or 2 drinks have been consumed, quite often the capacity to consent can no longer reasonably be given or believed. I wish we were also teaching the rest of society. I appreciate you giving the whole story here - I read yesterday about him being released - the honor student jailed for 10 years for consensual sex between a 15 year old and a 17 year old. That seemed extremely unreasonable and I was glad it was changed. I was unaware of the sex with the woman who was obviously incapable of consent. That is rape. I know that in our ‘justice’ system, sometimes we ignore one thing because something else is more able to addressed. But, in this case, the wrong thing was addressed and I am very distressed about a rapist essentially being told he didn’t rape.
I work for the military and there is a lot of effort going into education in this area - teaching young men and young women that once more than 1 or 2 drinks have been consumed, quite often the capacity to consent can no longer reasonably be given or believed. I wish we were also teaching the rest of society.

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