Genarlow Wilson is Free

After spending more that two and a half years in prison for a crime he committed when he was a teenager, 21-year-old Genarlow Wilson is a free man.

Wilson walked out of the Burrus Correctional facility in Forsyth late Friday afternoon and into the arms of his mother and 9-year-old sister.

"You should be more cautious about what you do, because a few minutes of fun can be a lifetime, and a very hard time getting out of it."

Wilson was just 17 when he was videotaped having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl in a hotel room during a New Year's Eve party in 2003.

He was convicted of felony child molestation and despite his age, was sentenced to ten years in prison without the possibility of parole.

Lawmakers later scrapped that law that required the lengthy mandatory sentence.

In its ruling Friday the Georgia Supreme Court said Wilson's ten year prison sentence amounted to cruel and unusual punishment and ordered his immediate release.