Let’s see, the rapist gets two years probation, some community service and the victim is to applaud the perp.
They ought to just close this joke of a school down.
I don’t know the race of the cheerleader, but it is pretty certain Rakheem is black, and you know that black jocks are a “special” breed.
The SOB should have never been allowed back on the team, but Sports in High School are more important than rape.
I’ve had an ongoing debate with one of my adult children over this case. There’s more to the story than this article covers. And a lot of detail not published anywhere.
Both the cheerleader and player should have been suspended from their respective teams well before the playoff game when she refused to cheer for Bolton individually. BOTH the cheerleader and players attended and got drunk at a party.
This case vs. the player was brought before a grand jury four times before they were able to get an indictment. That says the prosecutors didn’t have that solid a case.
That is probably because they were all drunk and she could not swear that what occurred was “rape rape” in the immortal words of Whoopi Goldberg. The cheerleader probably could not testify that what occurred, at the time, was with or without her permission. There was (apparently) no claim that the players had put anything in her drinks.
For all anyone knows, in her drunken stupor it was all OK on that drunken night, then the next day she cried ‘rape.’ The prosecutors eventually got the indictment because she was a minor. That is the danger one confronts in getting drunk.
I agree 100% with you. Wow.