Immorality in all forms is an accepted way of life. Some parents let their daughters allow boyfriends 'sleep overs' without a second thought. Teens of that age are not stupid. They know deep in their hearts what is wrong & what is right. They are given the lowest denominator to live by & they oblige.
This girl was treated like garbage, was laughed at & it was spread all over the internet. How truly sad if she was actually given a date rape drug, One of the kids asked "What if this was YOUR sister" & the answer was "She's not'. Not everyone takes responsibility for their actions & they certainly won't for others actions. Even the team coach fluffed it off & didn't take any action to keep these guys from playing.
It is a difficult task for decent parents & kids ro cope with these problem. The parents of all the involved teenagers should at least have some notion of who their kids hang out with, if they are actually at the place they say they are going & what is going on at that place.
The one saving grace about this story is that people responded with outrage & forced the prosecuter & the coach to finally deal with the problem of these football hero rapists - who broke down in court & cried like babies.
I live fairly close to Steubenville and have followed this case from the beginning. This is my take:
This type of partying was commonplace and there was talk of another rape that happened in April. There may also be other girls who were treated like this. The family of the girl “raped” in April was turned away by the authorities in Steubenville. The other girls have said nothing. The current victim’s parents did not go away quietly. And they have death threats against them now.
This current victim is the ex-girlfriend of one of the boys present that night who filmed and took pictures. She broke up with him and he tweeted 2 weeks before this incident that he would “destroy her”.
So the modus operandi was in place. The only difference was that they were to take pictures and video and spread them around to “destroy” her. What they were too stupid to understand was that the video, pictures and texts would bring them down. They provided all the evidence the police needed.
Because the teenagers did not even come forward with information when asked by police. None of them. The three eye witnesses were compelled to talk with immunity. The coach did not help. The Grand Jury will compel these awful people to talk.