State of Georgia v. Allison

State v. Allison was a Georgia court case. Janet Allison was convicted of sexual offences for allowing her (then pregnant) daughter, aged 15, to have sexual intercourse in her home. The events took place in the year 2000. The young couple later married and had a child of their own, but Allison's name has been entered into the sex offenders' register, with various adverse consequences for her life and that of her family.

As a family law matter, the case was not widely-reported in the popular press at the time, but Allison's plight has subsequently attracted attention from publications and television programmes critical of the State of Georgia's stance on sex offenders.

Allison was not given a prison term, but three of her children were taken into foster care. She was obliged to leave her four bedroom home, because it is unlawful for a sex offender to live within a quarter of a mile of a church, and now lives in a mobile home "way off down a dirt road". She is allowed no contact with the daughter involved, nor with her grandchild.

The Southern Center for Human Rights called this outcome "unconstitutional" and has challenged it in the Federal courts.