Posted on 09/04/2012 2:08:23 PM PDT by trailhkr1
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio -- It’s Monday, and ominous-looking clouds are pushing over Harding Stadium as dozens of football players in practice jerseys prepare to take on Cleveland’s Benedictine Bengals.
But this day two key players are missing from the field.
(Excerpt) Read more at cleveland.com ...
And Traci Lords.
Teen age drinking-——————Dumb
Rape—————————————Stupid
Taking photo’s————————More stupid
Posting them on Utube-————Out of their friggin minds
This is what we are trying to educate these days?
This is what we are pissing money away to keep in schools?
The girl in question goes to the local Catholic HS. This stuff is happening at all schools. Society is decaying.
I was drunk around teenage girls back in the day. My parents were divorced. I didn’t participate in any gang rapes at parties.
Must suck having to cleanup all the ignorant statements some on this board jump to conclusions to make. Keep up the good work. I don't envy you.
It's not just the kids, it's the parents who are circling the wagons around the rapists, the coach and the team........
We don’t know that the victim was even drinking. She could have had a coke with something in it (GHB or similar) and passed out without having done anything wrong.
We do know that the guy videotaping the event was producing child pornography, and that the guys having sex with a girl who was unresponsive were (1) disgusting, and (2) rapists. I hope all the rapists will be identified, prosecuted as adults, and given long sentences. As a parent of girls, this disgusts and angers me - children should be safe. As a parent of boys, this disgusts me with the boys involved and angers me with their parents - children should be taught to behave decently and respectfully.
So, how "not nearly as vile" makes sex with a drugged 16 year old any less vile?
At this point, I'm no longer focused on the perps but rather the townspeople, the school administration and most importantly, the coach of the football team who are refusing to take the appropriate action.....
“So, how “not nearly as vile” makes sex with a drugged 16 year old any less vile?”
Well, I have it on good authority (Whoopi Goldberg) that Roman Polanksi’s having sex with a drugged 13-year old is not really “rape-rape” http://www.lvrj.com/blogs/sherm/Rape-rape_and_legitimate_rape.html So I guess it just depends on who you are and who you’re with etc.......
John Adams said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” If that is true, judging by current and even accelerating cultural shifts, we might already have passed the point of no return.
The prudent American will trim his sails accordingly.
It’s common knowledge how children often feel invincible. Add hormones to that and you have a recipe for disaster. These kinds of things happen when you elevate childish young men to the status of gods.
Thank you for mentioning that!
"Hello???" (to those who semi-excuse this type of atrocity.)
Children had raging hormones and got drunk 100 years ago, 50 years ago, and 25 years ago. Young athletes were always elevated beyond all reason. But I don’t recall this kind of cold, proud, conscienceless gang raping, including bragging and videos.
That is a new thing. And very evil, portending much worse.
This is a terrible thing no matter who fault it is.
I could not imagine growing up when everybody had a video camera in their pocket and an inane desire to post to YouTube. A smartphone describes the phone not the owner.
It’s ridiculous scapegoating. I expect these “boys” to act like civilized humans, not savages.
P.S. I can’t believe not one person did or said anything. It blows my mind.
Let’s just say I know these guys on an “educational level.” Only one of the seven is black. All others are white, middle class students in the school’s university scholars program. They all have either old money names or new money names. These are what would be considered “good kids.” in fact, at the schools web site you can see many of the alleged seven in the academic awards banquet pics. Two are in jail but five more are on deep crap.what is becoming a possibility is that we have a little gang of serial rapists. The house of cards might really topple if/when it is discovered that adults knew about it.
There was no drugging of the girl in the version he heard, nor penetration. Bascially it was a case of drunk kids and some naughty pictures.
We have 4 daughters. Believe me, we are not prone to be “lenient” when it comes to rape.
I'm familiar with Youtube but I've never heard of Utube.
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