John Grisham issues public apology for child porn comments

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"We have prisons now filled with guys my age. Sixty-year-old white men in prison who've never harmed anybody, would never touch a child." He continued, "But they got online one night and started surfing around, probably had too much to drink or whatever, and pushed the wrong buttons, went too far and got into child porn."

Grisham went on to explain what happened to an old classmate:

"His drinking was out of control, and he went to a website. It was labeled '16-year-old wannabe hookers or something like that.' And it said '16-year-old girls.' So he went there. Downloaded some stuff -- it was 16-year-old girls who looked 30."

He continued, "He shouldn't have done it. It was stupid, but it wasn't 10-year-old boys. He didn't touch anything. And God, a week later there was a knock on the door: ‘FBI!’ and it was sting set up by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to catch people -- sex offenders -- and he went to prison for three years."

Grisham went on, "There's so many of them now. There's so many 'sex offenders' -- that's what they're called -- that they put them in the same prison. Like they're a bunch of perverts, or something; thousands of ’em. We've gone nuts with this incarceration."

The Daily Telegraph writes, "Asked about the argument that viewing child pornography fueled the industry of abuse needed to create the pictures, Mr. Grisham said that current sentencing policies failed to draw a distinction between real-world abusers and those who downloaded content, accidentally or otherwise."

Grisham responded, "I have no sympathy for real paedophiles,” he said, "God, please lock those people up. But so many of these guys do not deserve harsh prison sentences, and that's what they're getting."

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And there is so many of them now. There is so many sex offenders – is what they are called – that they put them in the same prison. Like they are a bunch of perverts or something.

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He should've kept his mouth shut and those quotes are insane, but they leave out a lot. His friend according to him was drunk one night and solicited a 16-year old girl. He said it was wrong and he should be punished, but I think he was just saying that they don't belong in the same category as prepubescent boy rapists. Which I agree with. All pedophiles are lumped together but the fact is a 16-year-old female is sexually mature. A normal straight grown man can feel attraction. And in many states, it's perfectly legal to act on that attraction. Is it sleazy and creepy? Absolutely. But it's nothing like the mental depravity and pure evil of a Sandusky.


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I kind of understand what he is saying. If a man is tipsy & decides to click of some porn of girls under 18 he doesn't deserve years in prison. I think the police should go to their house & confront them & tell them the seriousness of it & then watch his Internet closely & if he does it again maybe a year to 2 years in jail. people who just click on it once when they're tipsy don't deserve to go to prison for 10 years. I have to kind of agree with Grisham there.

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I thought him smarter.

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As did I.

He's dumb, but evidently not as dumb as his effed up friend.

"Oh, I was drunk. That's why I wanted to bang an underage girl."

Of course, for the longest time, girls could marry at 15 (and quite often did).

Any link to his original comments would be great, thanks.

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"Oh, I was drunk. That's why I wanted to bang an underage girl."

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In these places:

Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia


That's not a crime. You can get drunk and bang 16-year-olds.


But in California it is. Weird huh?