The Steubenville incident v. Anonymous

• queencitybuckeye

  gut;1408206 wrote:I don't agree with "grieving" over the verdict, but it does illustrate these guys lost a lot more than 1 year of freedom.
  
  Anyone can serve a year in the clink, the deterrent is really about trying to put your life back together after doing time. They'll be paying for that the rest of their lives, being passed over for jobs and promotions because of being a convicted sex offender.

  Still a lower price than their victim will pay.
• hasbeen

  

  gut;1408206 wrote: They'll be paying for that the rest of their lives, being passed over for jobs and promotions because of being a convicted sex offender.

  Good.
• Cat Food Flambe'

  

  sherm03;1408107 wrote:. Do you honestly think they'll have a problem finding a job in Steubenville when they get out because of this conviction?

  Sherm, the problem will be finding a job in Steubenville, period. The registry issue will be even more harmful if they try to leave the local universe.
• BR1986FB

  Went down to Wheeling, WV yesterday and drove past Steubenville HS. We passed the police station and it was infested with news crews. Thought I saw someone from ESPN.
• Sonofanump

  BR1986FB;1408260 wrote:Went down to Wheeling, WV yesterday and drove past Steubenville HS. We passed the police station and it was infested with news crews. Thought I saw someone from ESPN.

  Was anyone cleaning the gutters?
• IggyPride00

  

  It's too bad Nancy Grace was busy with obsessing over Jodi Arias, because I could easily see this being the kind of case that would have gotten her all riled up. If nothing else her droning on night after night about them being rapists would have brought an added layer of shame and notoriety to these kids since they got off with such a lite sentence.
  
  Someone mentioned Jobs earlier in the thread. Don't you know it is great publicity for the city to be seen as sympathetic towards rapists because they play high school football? I mean you would think businesses would be lining up to bring much needed jobs to that area with such an upstanding community of people.
• Crimson and Gray Hair

  

  OSH;1408192 wrote:[video=youtube;MvUdyNko8LQ][/video]

  Two young men(only sixteen years old) with promising futures rape a young women and now must suffer the embarrassment of having face punishment for said crime. What a tragedy for these fine youngsters.
  
  Just another example of the inequities in our justice system that they should be subjected to this!
  (I know some of you don't recognize sarcasm in a written form - this is it)
• Tigerfan00

  

  Did they have a moment of silence in the Steubenville schools also for these boys?
  
  maybe even have the flags in the city at half mast. What a tragedy for these football players.
• sleeper

  

  Tigerfan00;1408568 wrote:Did they have a moment of silence in the Steubenville schools also for these boys?
  
  maybe even have the flags in the city at half mast. What a tragedy for these football players.

  Steubenville is such a joke. Fuck the entire city. :thumbdown:
• Tigerfan00

  

  Just when we all thought it couldnt go any further. On Fox8's website it said 2 girls made death threats to the rape victim. I feel horrible for this young woman and I hope she moves away when done with school. Its become obvious that many of those idiot rednecks down there will blame her forever.
• OSH

  

  Deadspin is dead-on!
  

  Saccoccia wasn't the only Steubenville coach to stand up for the players. One of his staffers told the New York Times that "the rape was just an excuse...What else are you going to tell your parents when you come home drunk like that and after a night like that? She had to make up something."

• killer_ewok

  

  Tigerfan00;1408582 wrote:Just when we all thought it couldnt go any further. On Fox8's website it said 2 girls made death threats to the rape victim. I feel horrible for this young woman and I hope she moves away when done with school. Its become obvious that many of those idiot rednecks down there will blame her forever.

  
  Those two girls were arrested today. I love it.
• Sonofanump

  killer_ewok;1408589 wrote:Those two girls were arrested today. I love it.

  Does that mean that we get to pay for their meals directly in prison as opposed to indirectly with the food stamp card?
• gut

  killer_ewok;1408589 wrote:Those two girls were arrested today. I love it.

  I'm guessing they were stupid enough to do it via text or email?
  
  I wonder what the law is? I always thought if you went in to the police and said "someone threatened to kill me" they'd just shrug their shoulders and say nothing they could do. Potentially you could get a harassment charge and restraining order.
  
  I assume it's different in this case because of rape shield laws.
• queencitybuckeye

  gut;1408592 wrote:I'm guessing they were stupid enough to do it via text or email?
  

  Twitter
• Curly J

  

  queencitybuckeye;1408593 wrote:Twitter

  WTF. This Rape was brought to light mainly due to posts on Social Network sites and yet these dumb chicks pull this. SMH at Stoopidville people.
• gut

  Curly J;1408601 wrote:dumb chicks

  The rest of your post was simply multiple redundancies.
• Curly J

  

  I was just thinking. It's been a while since FWK has posted on this. I wonder how our favorite Victim Blamer is doing. Although I only wonder 5%
• said_aouita

  

  killer_ewok;1408589 wrote:Those two girls were arrested today. I love it.

  
  http://kdvr.com/2013/03/18/two-teenage-girls-arrested-for-threatening-steubenville-rape-victim/
• Curly J

  

  gut;1408602 wrote:The rest of your post was simply multiple redundancies.

  True. But redundancies are redundant.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Curly J;1408605 wrote:True. But redundancies are redundant.

  
  True. But truer things have never been truthfully truer.
• Tigerfan00

  

  This place has been forever labeled whether they like it or not. Dumbasses
• Crimson and Gray Hair

  

  I wonder if Nike will sponsor new Big Red prison uniforms for these kids.
• Heretic

  

  queencitybuckeye;1408593 wrote:Twitter

  lol. While it's only been less than a week since I read it, I'm getting hilarious flashbacks to one of Dan Wetzel's Yahoo columns about the case where you could sense how incredulous he was that RapistMayes was dumb enough to repeatedly talk about what he did on Twitter...despite the fact he seemed to understand on some level how dumb he was being.
  
  Steubenville: America's First Town to be Deemed Too Stupid for Social Media
  
  A little wordy to be on those signs you see while driving into towns, but very, very accurate.
• IggyPride00

  

  I keep reading about the 19 or so people who refuse to talk about the case to investigators who have relevant information to the incident.
  
  Hopefully those are the first 19 dragged in front of a grand jury. We will see how tough they are then when faced with obstruction charges should they continue to stonewall.
  
  I am hoping that a grand jury creates a nice and paranoid environment in that town where everyone turns on eachother because no one knows who is snitching and what is being revealed.
  
  All of the adults involved should be forced to sweat it out for how they have behaved.
  
  Hopefully Steubenville gets everything it deserves out of this and nothing less.