Good thing Paris Hilton was Not Covicted in Georgia … GA Protecutor Releases Sex Tape of Teen Genarlow Wilson that Could Put Him in Jail (Child Porn?)

WOW, imagine what the media would do with this story if Paris Hilton had been convicted in Georgia? Douglas County District Attorney David McDade stated that under Georgia’s open records law he had no choice but to release the tape. Of course it begs the question, why would anyone in the media feel the need to rebroadcast such a tape. Re-broadcasting a video of under age teens is not news, it goes on every day. It is nothing more than sensationalism and the pathetic efforts of a dying media grasping for ratings.

A state lawmaker on Tuesday asked the Georgia attorney general to investigate a prosecutor’s release of an amateur video showing a man who has spent years in prison for child molestation having consensual sex with two teenage girls.

 The case against Genarlow Wilson has just gone from bad to worse.

The tape helped put Wilson behind bars, where he is serving a mandatory 10-year sentence on a charge of aggravated child molestation. Although the oral sex with the 15-year-old was consensual, it was a felony under Georgia law at the time. The law has since been changed. Wilson was acquitted of raping the 17-year-old. (Fox News)

UPDATE I: Release of tape in teen sex case may violate child-porn law

The council said in the memo, which it provided to CNN, that Georgia’s open records law contains no exemption for material considered child pornography.

However, David Nahmias, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, said earlier this week: “We have advised that the videotape at issue constitutes child pornography under federal law and should not be knowingly distributed, received or possessed outside of law enforcement and judicial proceedings.”

Nahmias said Tuesday that federal laws prohibiting the distribution or possession of child pornography “are intended to protect the children depicted in such images from the ongoing victimization of having their sexual activity viewed by others, potentially for years to come. … These federal laws trump any contrary requirement of the state’s open records act that may exist.”

Others making comments on this qiestionable releasing of the tape.

• Sex Crimes Blog: More on the Wilson Case Tape
• Douglas A. Berman: Prosecutors gone wild
• InstaPundit