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.
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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.
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??
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.
Now now, we need clarification from Whoopi Goldberg, as to whether or not, it was "rape" rape.
I’m grateful that there are men like you. Thanks again.
Getting closer and closer.
“Big Government” has been working on creating and filling that void since Woodrow Wilson. Hell, since TR.
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...
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
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out whom you are not allowed to criticize.” ~ Voltaire
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.
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.
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
“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.
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.
“Dear Hustler: I can’t believe this happened to me...”
Set this up? In what way?
The whole place seems depraved.
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.
The old “everybody does it” or the “you can’t watch your kid every mminute” excuses. Despicable.
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