OMG, when I listened to this interview with John Grisham the
author, I have to say, I was hot.
Grisham states that he doesn’t believe that all the people that are his
age, white, and in jail for being a pedophile is actually a pedophile and they
don’t deserve the long prison sentences that they are given … why, “because
they might have been drunk one night and accidentally went into the website,
that happened to a lawyer friend of his.”
Well, I totally disagree.
I don’t think that pedophiles wake up one day and have a
flamboyant desire for kids. I think that
they start out small … oh, I don’t know, maybe they are drunk one night and
start clicking around on their computer and they like the first thing that pops
up, so they go to the next … and the next …a.n.d the next – before you know it,
the FBI is at their door because they have gotten reports of a pedophile using
that computer.
Grisham has really put himself in some bad light with this
interview and I am sure I am not the only one who will view this interview as
harshly. I for one have been drunk on
numerous occasions and I have had a computer up and running when I was drunk,
but not one time has it ever occurred to me to look at child porn. Grisham has to realize that being drunk is
not an excuse to do wrong … if it was, then people would be able to use the
Temporary Insanity Defense when they were intoxicated or under the influence of
other drugs at the time they broke the law.
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