I Need Your Attention
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
Not that you need to know (does plausible deniability work here?), but here is the email to the Board:
The Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles:
So as not to overburden you with undue verbiage and given your most recent decision regarding Peter Mallory, I must demand the Pardon & Parole Board’s complete and total resignation.
The decision to parole someone who committed such egregious crimes against our society and humanity as the abuse of children should cause each member of the board to be overwhelmed with deep and abiding shame.
Since I do not personally know any of those serving on the Board, I cannot, ethically, ascribe to them their motives for doing such a despicable act. So, I will merely judge the action rather than the motives.
The action is unconscionable and demonstrates the complete unsuitability for any of those on the Board who approved this decision to continue to serve on the Board. Even if there were members who disagreed with this action taken and yet they failed to publicly decry this action, they also should resign for no other reason than the lack of character to do what is right.
Scripture is very clear; all people have sinned. Yet there are some sins which carry additional punishment by society in the present, earthly realm. While all sin is abhorrent to God, there are sins which carry greater punishment than others because of their depravity. Child pornagraphy and exploitation is one such sin. Even Jesus referred those who harm “the least of these” (referring to the children in His audience then) to be executed in a horrible manner in order to demonstrate the severity of the horrible sin.
I will also be making my desires for the Board’s resignation known to the Governor’s office.
Respectfully,
Rev. James Grieme, Senior Pastor
Sunset Hills Baptist Church
Douglasville, Georgia
“Someone” approached the Georgia State Board Of Pardons and Paroles to release this criminal. I need a name or names. We also need the names on the Board who approved this.