JOHN GRISHAM APOLOGIZES FOR CHILD PORN REMARKS

Newsday
10/16/14


Novelist John Grisham apologized Thursday for saying in an interview that many men imprisonedfor child pornography offenses in the US probably just had too much to drink and pushed the wrongbuttons.  He said many of those jailed 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 intochild porn.  Grisham made a distinction between real pedophiles and those he said werebeing punished too harshly.  He said offenders did deserve punishment, but 'we've gone nutswith this incarceration.