You know, the laws of the land are so screwed up that it's not even funny. I agree that you shouldn't be having sex as a teenager, but it happens. I think most of us pretty much have been there. But it makes no sense when you're put on the list as a sex offender and you and the "victim" are both teenagers and both still in school.
That's exactly what the state of Georgia is doing to Wendy Whitaker. Since 1997, when Wendy (at the time 17 and a sophomore) was convicted as a sex offender for having oral sex with a classmate, who was at the time 15. Whitaker, who is now 28, has moved twice because of the sex offender law's restrictions that say an offender cannot live within 1,000 feet of places where children congregate. Whitaker was recently told by a sheriff she must move again because her home is within 1,000 feet of a church.
In my opinion, it would be different if she was 17 and she was having sex with someone who was say, 10 or 11 years old or around that age, but they were both in the same grade. But my real question is why did this chick not get any prison time like Genarlow Wilson did? Genarlow commited the same offense, and it was actually the same age, he was 17 and the girl was 15. So what did he do that warranted him having to spend several years of his life in prison, but Wendy got probation?
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