The Steubenville High School rape occurred in August 11, 2012, when a high-school girl, incapacitated by alcohol, was publicly and repeatedly sexually assaulted by her peers. The callous attitude of the assailants was documented on Facebook, Twitter, text messages, and cell phone recordings of the acts. Two students and high school football players, Ma’lik Richmond and Trent Mays, both 16 at the time of the crime, were convicted in juvenile court for the rape of a minor. Three other adults have been indicted for obstructing the investigation into the rape.
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The Steubenville High School rape occurred in August 11, 2012, when a high-school girl, incapacitated by alcohol, was publicly and repeatedly sexually assaulted by her peers. The victim was transported, undressed, photographed, and sexually assaulted. She was also penetrated vaginally by other students’ fingers, an act defined as rape under Ohio law. The callous attitude of the assailants was documented on Facebook, Twitter, text messages, and cell phone recordings of the acts. Two students and high school football players, Ma’lik Richmond and Trent Mays, both 16 at the time of the crime, were convicted in juvenile court for the rape of a minor. Three other adults have been indicted for obstructing the investigation into the rape, while the superintendent of schools was charged with hindering the investigation of a rape that took place earlier in 2012. The crime and ensuing legal proceedings generated considerable controversy and galvanized a national conversation about rape and rape culture. The evidence presented in court mainly consisted of hundreds of text messages and cellphone pictures that had been taken by more than a dozen people at the parties and afterwards traded with other students and posted to social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. In one text, Mays described the victim as ‘deader than a dead body’ and in another he told a friend that a photo of the victim lying naked in a basement with semen on her body had been his.
On March 17, 2013, Trent MAYS and Ma’lik Richmond were convicted of rape and sentenced to 17 years in prison. The judge found they had used their fingers to digitally penetrate the victim’s vagina and that it was impossible for the girl to have given consent for the acts to take place. The girl testified in court that she had no memory of the six-hour period in which the rapes occurred, except for a brief time at the second location in which she was vomiting on the street. Three witnesses took the photos back to the second party and shared them with friends. In a 12-minute video later posted to YouTube, Nodianos and others talk about the rapes, with Nodanos joking that \”they raped her quicker than Mike Tyson raped that one girl\” and that’s how you know she’s dead, because someone pissed on her. While he did not sexually assault the victim himself, he later dropped out of the school after receiving threats for his comments, as did his family inSteubenville, and his school dropped him out of school as a result of the rape. In the days following the rapes,. Mays’seemed to try to orchestrate a cover-up, telling a friend, ‘Just say she came to your house and passed out’\” and pleading with the victim not to press charges. She said she woke up the next morning naked in the basement living room with Mays,. Richmond and another teenage boy, missing her underwear, flip-flops, phone and earrings.
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