http://www.hsconnect.com/page/content.detail/id/581802/Hanlin-issues-statement.html?nav=5010
Hanlin issues statement
January 6, 2013
From staff reports , The Herald-Star
STEUBENVILLE - Jefferson County Prosecutor Jane Hanlin issued a statement Saturday night regarding her involvement in the investigation into an alleged August rape incident involving a 16 year old Weirton female and two Steubenville High School students.
“My ethical duties as a prosecutor prohibit me from discussing the details of the case involving allegations of rape against two local juveniles until the matter has been resolved in court, Once the court proceedings have been concluded, I will be able to answer any questions the public may have and I have promised to do so,” said Hanlin.
“All allegations that me or my son or my home are involved in any way whatsoever in this criminal matter are 100 percent false. None of the alleged events occurred at my home. My son was not present at any time while the victim was alleged to have been unconscious, photographed, videotaped or sexually assaulted. Any statement to the contrary is 100 percent false,” Hanlin stated.
Some early stories in the Cleveland PD and other newspapers
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2012/08/high_school_football_players_i.html
http://www.tribtoday.com/page/content.detail/id/575717/Players-arrested.html?nav=5024
http://www.news-register.net/page/content.detail/id/573363/Teens-Charged-In-Rape.html?nav=515
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2012/09/rape_charges_divide_football_t.html
http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2012/09/in_steubenville_shame_and_sile.html
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2012/09/sexual_assault_awareness_campa.html
Thats new. I wonder if she knows or is going by what her son is telling her.
I fear for my country.
Has anybody actually READ what Anonymous is stating as truth?
Has anybody clicked on any of the links that Anonymous has provided? They lead to message boards full of Occupy Movement hate. They are one in the same.
Two people have been charged, arrested, and will stand trial on 2/13/1013
The county prosecutor turned this case over to Special Prosecutors from the States Attorney Generals Office in AUGUST less than 3 weeks after the rape.
Anonymous has hacked websites, hacked private email accounts and complied a dossier complete with names, phone numbers, addresses, and social security numbers of the Principal, coaches, all the faculty of the school and their relatives and have threatened to release all of this if the victim doesn’t get an apology from people who may or may not be involved.
Does the majority of members of freerepublic really support that?
Really?
This is no different than forces against the 2nd Amendment using Newtown as leverage to eliminate guns.
Anonymous/Occupy is using this rape as leverage to spread their anarchy.
That LiveLeaks website is so full of smears many of which can be easily dismissed, except for the fact the crime involved and the conduct of the perp is so outrageous, it is difficult to criticize what Anonymous/occupy is doing because they claim to be defending the victim.
LiveLeaks smears the county prosecutor,for saying what ANY prosecutor would tell the rape victim on what to expect from a trial.
Furthermore, it’s the states attorney general special prosecutors who are handling the case. The county prosecutor turned it over in August. AUGUST!
The Sheriff has been smeared for running a prolonged investigation, except it’s the City Police, not the Sheriff, who has jurisdiction over an investigation that has produced two arrests prior to the States Attorneys involvement.
Anonymous/Occupy claims on Liveleaks that the sheriff is aware of the 12 minute video which shows the OSU student laughing about the rape, but that the sheriff cannot get access to it.
Then Anonymous/Occupy criticizes the Sheriff for not arresting this OSU brute.
Seriously?? People are lapping this up
They are accusing the Sheriff not arresting a perp for his conduct on a video that the Sheriff has admitted that he has not seen, that he cannot get access to, in an investigation that he does not have jurisdiction over.
The Sheriff first saw the video this week after Anonymous/Occupy posted it online, which leads me to this simple question.
If Anonymous/Occupy was SO concerned about the victim, why on earth would they not give a COPY of the Video to the sheriff when he told them he doesn’t have it?
I don’t want to defend that Sheriff or the county prosecutor, I do not know them, and I certainly don’t know Steubenville, and I’m certainly not defending the brutes involved in a rape.
But Damn it, somebody has to speak up for the Rule of Law, and very, very, very few people are.
One of the Football players from Steubenville, a sophmore, I believe, (what does that make him 15-16 years old?), was quoted in the Cleveland paper today that he wasn’t there, has absolutely nothing to do with, and yet thanks to Anonymous/Occupy, he is getting Death threats, he has been told that the entire football team needs to be lined up and shot. Another Parent compared this to a witch hunt.
Apparently, human nature hasn’t changed much since Salem, the big difference now is in powerful tools in the form of the internet and Social Media.
With great power comes great responsibility. I believe what Anonymous/Occupy has done is incredibly irresponsible.
They haven’t done anything, to force anyone, to do anything different, that they already haven’t done.
1) Arrests have been made
2) Special Prosecutors have been called in
3) Trials have been set
Does that sound like a cover up to you?
All done in the weeks after the assault. Once there is sworn testimony from the trial, the door is open for more arrests, per the prosecutors.
It saddens me that I appear to be a lone voice out here, very very few people across the political spectrum are speaking out against the Anonymous/Occupy tactics.
My wife is a member of the faculty at a local high school, an English teacher, had we lived in Steubenville, her personal information would be held hostage by Anonymous/occupy right now, as they whip up a frenzied crowd.
I don’t recognize this world we live in anymore. This is French Revolution BS.
And nobody gives a damn.