Scum. Too many people are raising scum.
Heaven help us.
One year??
One year??
Drunk on their own small-town greatness, they operated unaware of common decency until they went too far, wrote too much, bragged too many times and, finally, on a cold Sunday morning, were hauled out of a small third-floor courtroom as a couple of common criminals.
Their ride to the Scioto Juvenile Correctional Facility was waiting for them out back, two floors down, out in the real world.
*cue Baltimora’s Tarzan Boy*
“minimum of one year in a youth correctional institute.”
Boy, they really treat their jocks like royalty.
When you fail as a society to impart morality, when that morality is chased away and replaced with what fictionally passes as “reasoning” and steal from the human spirit the guidepost that is enduring and eternal then you can expect failure moments like this to be common place. Neither of these two young men fit the “violent criminal” motif, neither “seem” to be the hoodlum type, BUT, lacking moral base and fortitude they will act upon urges once more easily controlled with a healthy respect and fear of what is wrong and a desire to uphold a good and decent set of standards. One where the man looks upon a woman as someone to be respected, put on a pedestal and revered and PROTECTED.
I am broken hearted for their families, but more so for the girl who paid a terrible price...she has her own issues to face, clearly, but NONE of them should have included what those boys did to her, her indiscretion did not convey license for them in any way whatsoever.
A thread from yesterday if anyone is interested in the comments thereon:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2997733/posts
Video of Judge issuing ruling about 1 minute long:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYEHc9E8YQE&feature=player_detailpage
Google articles:
https://www.google.com/search?q=steubenville+grand+jury+call&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Wow, what a sad story of shattered lives all around.
In this instance I am going to assume “intoxicated” means passed out drunk.
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. What’s the matter guys ?... You got no guile, and you got no game.
There was also a house full of people who did nothing and said nothing. Plus the parents who owned the homes and allowed these parties to go on.
We treat small-ball athletes as royalty. It happens in a lot of places where athletes get away with murder. Ditto anyone who passes as a celebrity.
They may be on the receiving end in jail. Don’t drop the soap.
It was known as "Friday Night".
I guess the 34 year-old Portugese neighbor who took me into her bed when I was 16 in 1968 would still be in prison under today's standards.
Sheesh.
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out whom you are not allowed to criticize.” ~ Voltaire
And people wonder why things like this happen.
No one has answered yet where the parents were whose house this drunken party happened.
Ah, don’t worry too much. Ma’lik. You’ll be earning millions on some NFL or NBA team in a few years.....after you become ‘reborn’, profess a love for the Lord and say that you are completely rehabilitated.....a la Ray Lewis.
Football star loses scholarship to Penn State after getting caught up in high school hazing scandal where freshmen players were ‘sexually abused daily’
Myles Hartsfield was dropped by Penn State University, it was revealed
Player, 17, has ‘explosive talent’ - but is caught up in hazing allegations
Senior-year player is star of Sayreville War Memorial High School team
Allegations surfaced of players at New Jersey school abusing freshmen
Boys allegedly be held down while older boys anally penetrated them
Used finger and would then force it into boys’ mouths
Seven players have been charged with sex crimes after revelations
It is not clear whether Hartsfield is among them
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2791640/football-star-loses-scholarship-penn-state-getting-caught-high-school-hazing-scandal-freshmen-players-sexually-abused-daily.html#ixzz3G4xgSCxd
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