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The racism in this case was legit by pretty much any standards -- the girl told people it was consensual sex at first, but changed her story later because her daddy was a well-known racist and she was worried that he would get mad at her for having sex with a black man -- so she cried rape. She as much as admitted this to people who later testified in court. The actual rape charge was thrown out because it was so ludicrous.
What Dixon was ultimately convicted for ("aggravated child molestation") was an entirely different matter -- basically it boils down to a lesser degree of statuatory rape. The law experts in Georgia were livid about him being convicted of this because the aggravated child molestation was NOT put in place to convict 18-year-olds of having consensual sex with 15-year-olds -- it was put in place to convict 45-year-olds forcing sex onto 13-year-olds. Add to this fact that the jury didn't know what kind of jail time Dixon would be facing and most of them said that they would not have voted him guilty if they had realized how harsh the sentence would be . . .
Needless to say, I'm glad the charge got thrown out. I'm all for rapists getting what they deserve, but everything I've read makes it sound like that was not the case here.
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