Dear Readers,
I address you directly and intend by this note to get you outraged as outrage, at this point, is the only recourse to spark action. This is not a partisan note. Regardless of your political leanings, ideology, faith, or lack thereof, justice demands you be outraged and outrage demands actions.
The world’s most prolific collector of child pornography, sentenced to prison for 1000 years, has been released on parole after seven.
That’s not my descriptor of the man. The judge who sentenced Peter Mallory to prison for 1000 years described him that way. Mr. Mallory had over 26,000 pictures and videos of children being raped, tortured, or otherwise sexually exploited.
The evidence at trial showed Mr. Mallory did not just have a choice in the matter but had a compulsion for child pornography. In his office, Mr. Mallory sent up secret cameras to spy on young women. In 2012, a judge sentenced him to those 1,000 years.
In May of this year, the Georgia Court of Appeals upheld Mr. Mallory’s sentence as not excessive based on the evidence. Three weeks later, the Georgia Board of Pardon and Parole released Mr. Mallory out into the wild on parole claiming he had earned enough “performance incentive credits” to reduce his thousand years to seven.
This is no longer about Mr. Mallory. This is about our elected officials.
Too often, elected officials at the federal and state level abdicate their responsibility to unelected bureaucrats who avoid accountability. They cannot be tossed out by voters and are never impeached by legislatures.
The world’s most prolific collector of child pornography is out of jail and the Governor of Georgia, Lt. Governor of Georgia, Speaker of the Georgia House, and other elected officials are remarkably quiet.
The prior Governor, Nathan Deal, stacked the Board of Pardon and Parole. The current Governor has not yet been able to fill a seat on the board. I would urge him to demand action and reform.
Readers, I have heard from Justices of the Georgia Supreme Court, judges of the Georgia Court of Appeals and various superior courts, and several district attorneys in Georgia that the Georgia Board of Pardon and Parole needs reform and cleaning up. They whisper quietly to me. The courts have only gone public in opinions where a clear reading suggests they know there are problems.
The elected politicians have remained silent. This should be a national outrage.
The man called “the most prolific collector of child pornography on planet earth” is out of a one thousand year prison sentence after just seven years and those who released him are hiding behind their rules, a bureaucracy, and knowledge that we will all forget and move on.
We should not move on. There must be accountability. These are the members of the board who have released this monster with a compulsion for child porn. Where are our elected leaders? Why are they silent? Why will no one stand for justice?
You should be outraged. You must be outraged. That board must resign.
Sincerely,
Erick-Woods Erickson
Has an Action Alert been sent out? I want to add my name in opposition to this outrage.
Who would ever defend this monster? I manage my husband's law office and can't imagine representing this guy. And who would ever release this guy or anyone like him. There must be a community outcry!