Source: http://www.crazydaysandnights.net

Every couple of years, this A+ list author shows the world what kind of a-hole he is by defending men who are pedophiles.

How is it he knows so many?

How is it his best friends are pedophiles?

Ever since he first came out in support of it, I have not bought or read any of his books.

John Grisham

Watch child porn? That doesn’t make you a pedophile, claims author John Grisham in astonishing attack on US judicial system

  • The novelist and lawyer, 59, believes many men have been wrongly sent to prison after watching child porn online
  • Claims they ‘would never touch a child’ and have ‘never harmed anybody’
  • References a friend of his who drunkenly watched child porn one night but was sent to prison after a FBI sting
  • Statements made in an extended interview with The Telegraph
  • Grisham maintained he has ‘no sympathy for real pedophiles’

Celebrated crime-fiction writer John Grisham has attacked America’s judicial system for wrongly locking up men he believes ‘accidentally’ watched child pornography.

The best-selling author and lawyer – who penned novels like The Rainmaker, The Firm and The Pelican Brief – has given an astonishing interview to The Telegraph defending some child sex offenders, saying they have become victims of a legal system that has ‘gone crazy’.

The 59-year-old then called for lighter sentences for those caught downloading images and videos of children being sexually abused.

‘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,’ Grisham told The Telegraph.

‘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 – who is preparing to release his new tome, Gray Mountain, next week – said he feels so strongly about the issue because his friend was involved in a child porn sting about 10 years ago.

He said his ‘old buddy from law school’ became involved in an operation organized by the FBI in Canada.

‘His drinking was out of control, and he went to a website,’ Grisham told The Telegraph.

‘It was labelled ”sixteen-year-old wannabee 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. – Source


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