Posted on 03/15/2013 1:30:50 PM PDT by Politicalmom
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio – Across a remarkable couple of hours Thursday, JoAnn Gibb, a slight but tough-minded forensic specialist for the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation, sat on a witness stand in a small, third-floor courtroom here and read the contents of hundreds of teenage text messages – explicit and vulgar, at times celebratory and at other moments desperate and pathetically sad.
They were culled from the cell phones of 17 kids, seized in the investigation that led to two Steubenville High School football players being charged with the August 2012 rape of a 16-year-old West Virginia girl after a night of partying. It is one of the largest cell phone culls in the state's history, and the contents of those messages intensified the trial in this football-mad, aging steel town.
"It was an extraordinary level of evidence and detail," said Katie Hanna of the Ohio Alliance to End Sexual Assault and a veteran observer of sexual assault cases. "I've never heard of anything like it."
Seventeen-year-old Trent Mays and 16-year-old Ma'lik Richmond are facing rape charges. Mays is accused of using his fingers to rape the girl, who many have testified to being drunk, in a moving car while another passenger filmed the action. Later, in the basement of a friend's house, prosecutors allege Richmond digitally raped the passed-out girl while Mays tried to force her to perform oral sex.
Both are charged as juveniles and could be sentenced to prison until age 21. Their closely watched joint trials began here Wednesday and should continue through the weekend. Each maintains his innocence.
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and how does that excuse anything?
If I throw them out at 14, they will have deserved it
But most parents are smart enough to catch on, especially if they tried to do the same things when they were a teenager.
Parents who want to be "friends" with their kids.
while Mays tried to force her to perform oral sex.
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That in itself shows the kid has no idea of what is going on.
If he succeeded in getting oral sex from a passed out person, he may have gotten a surprise he could remember the rest of his life.....which would be a GOOD thing.
Think pit bull if jaw ‘locks’ on target.
I'm thinking of a certain song by "King Missile."
the worst kinds of parents
As an aside, I keep reading about how today's teens are so tech savvy. It also seems they are idiots, because they think they are supposed to distribute the evidence of their crimes to as many people as possible. Rob a house? Let's make a YouTube video of the loot! Molest a girl? Let's text the evidence to all our buddies! Morons.
Well, when a group of guys openly call themselves the “Rape Crew”, I think there IS a problem with a “rape culture”.
Think pit bull if jaw ‘locks’ on target.
I’m thinking of a certain song by “King Missile.”
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I don’t know ‘King Missile’ or a clue as to the song,
BUT
I think we are on the ‘same page’ here??? <: <:
“It’s detachable.”
Sounds more like this case was being stonewalled because of Black Ku Klux Klan style racism and White Guilt Liberal enablers..... more than this “football mad community” spin
Not sure where you’re getting that from, but I can assure you that the football spin is accurate. You may be doubting that HS football could be king, but in some areas of Ohio, it really is, particularly the closer you get to the Ohio southern borders.
Don’t believe me? Check out their web page full of history about the Big Red team. http://www.rollredroll.com/history.htm
They have been to the state playoffs 25 times in the last 32 years, and were in the top 3 teams in the state 24 times in that span. The athletes are prima donnas that can do no wrong.
Didn’t see that one coming.
I figured the ‘vise’ or at the very least getting bobbicked.
That is a good name for that procedure though.
When shortening a horses or dogs tail isn’t it call bobbing?
Don’t forget that “date” and “prom” also means sex now
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I would imagine, after all, I put out 50 bucks for a corsage and put a tie and this stupid suit on, SO you owe me???
Never had a ‘real’ problem with ‘my girls’ b 65 and 69, their ‘friends’ all figured I was nuts, AND armed and especially dangerous, PLUS I was the guy in the neighborhood that could and would hire the ‘little dears’ for summer jobs - house NEVER got TP’ed or windows soaped.
I have a 23 yo grdaughter and my daughter STILL treats her ‘worse’ than I ever dreamed of- in terms of ‘parental control’.
I even tell her she should ‘lighten’ up a skosh BUT she says she knows the treatment ‘works’.
“I ask myself in these situations is why NOBODY really stopped them....”
I always have to believe that it is because of the influence of three factors:
The idea that one should not get involved to avoid backlash from the perpetrators and possible lawsuits.
Personal harm that may come to those who might have stopped them.
The general deterioration in the morals of the society where some young people enjoy the pain of others and actually participate.....although not directly.
The ‘drama’ of the text messages speaks to all of it. Most young people are all drama queens anyway.
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