Tina Susman
March 17, 2013
Two teenage boys, Trent Mays(17) and Ma'lik Richmond (16), in the small town of Steubenville, Ohio, thought it would be a good idea to take an extremely intoxicated girl to their house and rape her. They also thought it would be a good idea to take videos and pictures of the rape in progress. What they did not think was where their actions would take them. The next day, the sixteen year old girl was exposed to the videos and pictures that were being sent to everyone in school. She asked her friends, "Oh my God, please tell me this isn’t true." She had no recollection of that night. She had no idea who had done that to her. Immediately her and her family contacted the police. It was said that if it was not for the media coverage of the entire case, there would not be a verdict and the two boys would go free. The town did a wonderful job at trying to save their two star football players and undermine the innocent girl. The coach had actually tried to end all allegations against the boys. The two teens thought that coach "took care of it" and that they had nothing to be worried about, but they were wrong. There were actually witnesses that saw the girl get raped. They received immunity in return for their testimonies, but they should have been tried also. They claimed that they did not think what their friends were doing was rape. “It wasn’t violent,” he said. “I didn’t know exactly what rape was.” How do you not know what rape is? How can a person stand there and watch (and most probably record) a girl, a sixteen year old girl, get violated. They said she was not moving. She was limp, passed out. She was defenseless. A sentence of juvenile jail until twenty-one was not nearly the justice that poor girl deserved to see from the boys that took away everything from her.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-ohio-teens-sentenced-in-rape-20130317,0,7974442.story
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