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Steubenville High School football players found guilty of raping 16-year-old girl
Yahoo! Sports ^ | Sunday, March 17, 2013 | Dan Wetzel

Posted on 03/17/2013 3:15:39 PM PDT by Jyotishi

Ma'lik Richmond, center, reacts as the verdict for his and Trent Mays' rape trial is delivered. (Reuters)

Inside a small Steubenville, Ohio, courtroom filled with sobbing and exhausting emotion, Judge Thomas Lipps found Trent Mays and Ma'lik Richmond guilty Sunday of raping an intoxicated 16-year-old girl. Lipps sentenced both defendants to a minimum of one year in a youth correctional institute with the determination for a longer sentence coming from child-service experts.

Mays received an additional year for transmission of nude photos, to be served after his rape sentence is completed. Mays and Richmond also will have to register as sex offenders for the rest of their lives.

"It provides a great incentive to do well," said Lipps, who could have ordered Mays and Richmond to remain behind bars until they turned 21.

(Excerpt) Read more at sports.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: 2animals; animals; oldnews; prison; rape; rapists
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To: trisham
"I was shocked when I read that post."

Me too, shocked and angry that anyone would attempt to defend that kind of behavior. As a kid I was on the "wild side" as were my friends but NEVER in our wildest nights did anything close to gang raping a drunken chic happen, never. Even the worst of us would have gone bare knuckles on anyone that tried to rape a young (or old) women.

41 posted on 03/17/2013 4:55:43 PM PDT by jpsb
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To: nascarnation

Maybe if they put more effort into economic development than kid’s football maybe their economy would be better. How bad off can you be if you can afford 25 football coaches? Does every position get its own coach??


42 posted on 03/17/2013 4:55:50 PM PDT by wrcase
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To: Jyotishi
I blame almost everything sinfully tragic like this on abortion. Any nation that allows their mothers to kill their own young is a nation that does not respect [any] life, so a 16-year-old troubled (and drunk!) girl is easily fair game for all the players.

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43 posted on 03/17/2013 4:56:25 PM PDT by mlizzy (If people spent an hour a week in Eucharistic adoration, abortion would be ended. --Mother Teresa)
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To: Ouderkirk
In this messed up culture, at age 16/17 and you cannot induce a hormone fueled teenage girl into consensual sex... you’re TOTAL losers.

They could have gotten consensual sex. They WANTED to rape her because it was rape. They thought it would be loads of fun. They should be put to death immediately.

44 posted on 03/17/2013 4:57:04 PM PDT by Count of Monte Fisto
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To: Count of Monte Fisto
They WANTED to rape her because it was rape.

Now now, we need clarification from Whoopi Goldberg, as to whether or not, it was "rape" rape.

45 posted on 03/17/2013 4:58:20 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: jpsb

I’m grateful that there are men like you. Thanks again.


46 posted on 03/17/2013 4:59:52 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: dfwgator

Getting closer and closer.


47 posted on 03/17/2013 5:01:00 PM PDT by Rannug ("God has given it to me, let him who touches it beware.")
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To: dfwgator

“Big Government” has been working on creating and filling that void since Woodrow Wilson. Hell, since TR.


48 posted on 03/17/2013 5:02:16 PM PDT by Little Ray (Waiting for the return of the Gods of the Copybook Headings.)
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To: Count of Monte Fisto

They said they didn’t think it was rape if it wasn’t forcible. She wasn’t telling them no. In their minds, their “mistake” may have been that they didn’t get to her while she was still able to give them a flirty look (consent). They may well have believed that any girl in the town would have said yes to them, because they were such hot stuff. Clearly the adults were all willing to say yes to them, on everything else. Why would they ever expect that somebody would say no to them? They were jocks; they were ENTITLED to whatever they wanted, and nobody has either the power or audacity to say no.

Just like Congress, or the foreign enemy combatant in our White House...


49 posted on 03/17/2013 5:02:57 PM PDT by butterdezillion (,)
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To: dfwgator

The failure was at the parents level. And that goes in case one of the biological parents weren’t around, in that case, they are ESPECIALLY responsible. And the parents of the victim shouldn’t be spared from judgement

Include the failure of LEO’s


50 posted on 03/17/2013 5:06:34 PM PDT by Rannug ("God has given it to me, let him who touches it beware.")
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To: Jyotishi

“To learn who rules over you, simply find out whom you are not allowed to criticize.” ~ Voltaire


51 posted on 03/17/2013 5:09:34 PM PDT by Old Sarge (We are officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet...)
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To: butterdezillion

What kind of person wants to have sex with someone who is unconscious? It’s bizarre. These are the kind of people who see other people as objects, not as human beings.


52 posted on 03/17/2013 5:09:49 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: butterdezillion

This episode has an added dimension of revenge on the girl for breaking up with another one of the players, who is said to have set this whole thing up. He should have been prosecuted.


53 posted on 03/17/2013 5:13:15 PM PDT by Politicalmom (Liberalism. Ideas so great they have to be mandatory.-FReeper Osage Orange)
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To: ICE-FLYER

YES, the parents are responsible, more so the young man as he does KNOW that this was wrong but felt comfortable enough to make this choice. Our moral fabric is torn, our strong societal fabric is not nearly what it was...we need to return to it.

I believe the coaches should be questioned by the FBI


54 posted on 03/17/2013 5:14:18 PM PDT by Rannug ("God has given it to me, let him who touches it beware.")
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To: elkfersupper

“This sort of thing was not a crime when I was that age.”

Yes, it was.

Gang-raping an unconscious person is a heinous, heinous crime and always has been.


55 posted on 03/17/2013 5:15:15 PM PDT by Hilda
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To: GeronL

Juvi’s - should have been tried as adults, or at least sentenced to something more in tune with the nature of the crime. A little street justice from the girl’s father and his friends would maybe set things right.


56 posted on 03/17/2013 5:16:34 PM PDT by meyer (When people fear the government, you have Tyranny)
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To: elkfersupper

“Dear Hustler: I can’t believe this happened to me...”


57 posted on 03/17/2013 5:16:42 PM PDT by Old Sarge (We are officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet...)
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To: Politicalmom

Set this up? In what way?

The whole place seems depraved.


58 posted on 03/17/2013 5:24:45 PM PDT by butterdezillion (,)
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To: trisham

Pretty much all men are hard wired to protect women, so I am by no means exceptional. What is exceptional (in our Christian culture) is a group of young man thinking that gang rape is OK and cool, that is the thankfully rare exception.


59 posted on 03/17/2013 5:27:51 PM PDT by jpsb
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To: ICE-FLYER

The old “everybody does it” or the “you can’t watch your kid every mminute” excuses. Despicable.


60 posted on 03/17/2013 5:28:49 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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