This article really cleaned up the details of what was done. You might want to refer here for a clearer picture:
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/highschool--first-day-of-steubenville-rape-trial-focuses-on-key-photo-034736500.html

Good heavens. There is nothing too crass or two vile for these people to find sympathy with.

The image of Candy would stop rape in its tracks.
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These two hoodlums are exactly where they belong and their parents and the football coach should be in the next cell.

I sure hope there are a ton of cellphones confiscated in Steubenville by all the parents! According to the judges ruling, it is still possible these boys may serve the full term until they are 21. It´s up to how they behave and those reports will be given to the judge at intervals. At first I thought they should be tried as adults but after thinking about it, I didn´t know digital penetration was considered rape and I doubt the boys did either. The judges sentence was 1-5. Having said that, I do hope they wind up getting the full sentence. I also hope the parents of the young woman rid their home of alcohol, internet and cell phones. Then keep her in her bedroom, other than school, till she turns 21.

it is called stupidville .......gives a pretty good image of the place

Up here in my small town in MA, we had two seniors in high school rape a freshman girl. One of them held on to her in the condo while the other one went to the store to get cleaning products to tidy up. They stripped her, showered her, re-dressed her, cleaned the place up, drove away and dumped her, barefoot on a back road. The case went to trial, they admitted what they had done, were given a tap on the wrist, the judge didn´t want them on the sex offender list because they were such good guys. The girl´s life was destroyed, the town turned on the family and made the younger siblings miserable. And this all happened in modern day 2001! Hope the victim in Ohio fares better than the girl here did. And this is almost a 100% liberal town.

I don´t see what other verdict was possible. The evidence seemed more than sufficient. .

Teens, drinks, unsupervised, little or no moral instruction, etc. Mix those well and you will get the same disasters almost anywhere.

The video lets each of us assess Candy and Poppy - great pair of names - separately. Too weepy for me.

CNN and Candy Crowley are willing accompanists as Obama rapes all of us.

Kids today are subjected to so much rot,
and it appears parents do not have the where with all to teach them right from wrong right from toddlerhood.
Church and school are failing.
Hollywood and peer pressure reign supreme.

Rape should be treated the same as murder. If convicted of rape the perpetrator(s) should be executed.

I have no sympathy for the boys at all. They didn´t get what they really deserved. But the liberals are all for the boys, whereas consrvatives would like to see them serve the full sentence. And, Ms Crowly, this just shows that it is the liberals waging a war on women when they sympathize with rapists.

Apparently Candy doesn´t think it was rape-rape...

All this from a "respected, objective journalist" that moderated a Presidential debate

She asked for it, right Candy? I´s all the woman´s fault, right Candy? ...Candy?

In a culture that prizes its entertainments over justice, a few rapes or molestations or other bits of violence done by our sports and film and music "stars" is small price to pay for all the joy they bring into our otherwise drab lives. We routinely conceal such behavior or, when that´s not possible, afford the perps every benefit of the doubt and every opportunity to atone to insure they can return to their respective fields as soon as possible. Are we really surprised that a couple of lionized HS thugs feel its their due to rape an inebriated girl in a society where a Michael Jackson is allowed to pay off the parents of his play dates or when Penn State officials decide to protect their football program by concealing their own resident pedophile? And are we truly surprised when our "star" media commentators show sympathy for and enable other elites? The only surprising thing about this current case is that these two young thugs were caught and some small justice has been exacted.

It´s our bodies and we can do what we want, even rape while we´re unconscious. S/O

Hopefully, others is Stupidville will learn the valuable lessons. I know that life´s best lessons are learned while watching others crash their lives against the cliffs of bad choices. Candy ought to be ashamed of herself. Bethesda boys got off easy.

There is sympathy for the rapists for ONE reason, and it ain´t the white honor student. It´s white guilt for the one named Ma´lik.

Now if they both were white.......

I did watch the video of Ma´lik´s father apologizing the girl´s family. It was a tough thing for a father to have to do, but at least he did it.

Hey, remember that feminists essentially told us back in 1999, rapists should be punished unless they are "Our Rapists" (meaning liberal supporters).

Our local PBS was doing a fundraiser last night, showing the folk rock groups from the 1960s and 1970s. One of the songs was Age of Destruction.
Songs like that helped to lay the foundation for the grandchildren of those youngsters of the 1960s to behave the way they did, in my opinion. Permissiveness prevails.
(Aristotle, when talking about music, which to him included literature, said that a change in music leads to a deterioration of society. The rap music of today sort of confirms that.)

Watermelon head Candy Crowley would ask the question, was it rape or rape/rape or ´poking fun´ all that sort of liberal thinking?
I have one thing to ask Candy with popcorn for brains, if you had a daughter and this happened to her would you think differently? Victims should never be scrutinized when the truth is presented against the perps.
I don´t care what grades they make in school or if they are the quiet neighbor next door rape and murder has no face and knows no age.

these msm liberals have more sympathy for the guilty rapists in steubenville than they had for the innocent duke lacrosse players. now, why would that be?

I wonder how Candy felt when they dropped the charges against the Duke students? I can imagine. a black girl was the so called victim... I agree with another poster..had it been 2 white boys..nothing but praise for the verdict would have come out of CNN´s news readers mouths.

OT - What is digital rape? Is that like virtual rape?

Thank you, Adam, #25; you took the words out of my mouth. And remember the daily, vituperative accusations hurled at the Duke athletes by Nancy Grace and Wendy Murphy based on nothing race of the players and the accuser. Not to mention the revs Jackson and Sharpton ready to lynch the boys and start a riot. NEVER a peep of an apology from any of them once the facts came out. Despicable, but not surprising.

Also, wasn´t this poor, misguided Steubenville girl vomiting all over herself just like the Colorado rep (?) suggested to avoid being raped? Lotta good that did her!!

I guess rape, like everything else now, is a partisan issue. We have to wait to see who the raper and rapee are before we pass judgment.

Really wasn´t paying attention to this trial and came in on the tail/end of the decision....

I think ALL parties are guilty.....

Where the h@ll were the girl´s parents monitoring her whereabouts that night? Why would two success/oriented students "endanger" their futures? (maybe not so smart after all -- eh?)

AND the crowley/crow -- isn´t a journalist. She´s a cow!!

LZK

Come on now guys, this was just like a "garden variety" slap across the face- Joe Biden

Good Lord! Did any of these kids not have a sister or friend that this would horrify them to see? Another story of the two Americas. Its crime if it happens at a drunken mess at a small town party, but as the storyline for the garbage weekly shows that our kids are fed as ´family friendly´ fare or graphics in the latest rap video, then it brings a ratings bump. More life imitating art [blech] from the permissive low-info America.

Hey Candy, just think about how many fewer concussions these boys will inflict, and receive, if they don´t get to play football!

It´s all Bush´s fault!

#27 What do you mean what is digital rape is it like virtual rape? Look up the definition of digital and then you can figure it out.

Interesting new technique from the MSM - whipsaw your audience

Duke lacrosse players absolutely guilty of rape.

Steubenville players should get a pass ...

#27. Your fingers are known as "digits".

It´s the Menendez Brothers all over again. Gee, wasn´t it sad that those two boys were now orphans? Never mind that they´re now orphans because they murdered their parents! Now here are two youths who ruined their futures because of their own irresponsible actions. But let´s not blame them for that, let´s just cry over the fact that they´re now never going to become NFL multi-millionaires. Seriously, there are some incredibly warped people in the news media. Is it anyone the public is abandoning them?

The gift that will keep on giving is that they will have to register as convicted sex offenders for the rest of their life. They can kiss any promising future good bye with that hanging over them.

If President Obama had sons, they would look like Trent Mays and Ma´lik Richmond. [Fair is fair.]

"Ex-girlfriend´s death dashes gridiron hopes" is my favorite headline of all time. It´s from the Valley Times (CA Bay Area) back in November 1998. You can guess the rest.

It doesn´t matter if the rapists were young, good-looking, talented athletes or some grizzled old bums in an alley. Rape is rape. They ruined their own futures and have nobody else to blame.

#29 wasn´t paying attention but just knows the girl is guilty too.

Someone above writes: "I think ALL parties are guilty....."

That´s a horrifying sentiment. No matter how drunk the girl managed to get herself, she didn´t deserve to be violated, raped, and have the involuntary (on her part) criminal encounter, which was a crime of violence, spread all over the Web. The two boys who did the dastardly crime deserve to have their lives ruined. I have no sympathy for them, although I am sorry for their parents.

When I was a freshman in college I encountered a semiconscious (from alcohol consumption) girl on the ground in a dark field behind several dormitories. A couple of guys were starting to take her clothes off when I separated them from her (they were not pleased at my interference) and tried to find out where her room was. After a few minutes one of her girlfriends heard my calls, happened past, and recognized her. I carried her to her room about a quarter mile away where her roommate could look after her or, if necessary, call for an ambulance. After a night of puking she recovered from the drinking bout and became a friend of mine. Chivalry may be declining, but it ain´t dead.

Breitbart news (which has fallen into the realm of total weirdness) also had a contributor that victim blamed, minimized the rape, and defended the rapists. He bizarrely reasoned that the attack on Steubenville was an attack on ´football culture´ and, in turn, American values. That sort of thinking is what allowed Sandusky to terrorize children at Penn State. Defending rape is disgusting. Adults glorifying 16 high school football players is disgusting. I hope they all rot.

*16 year old players (as though they were NFL greats)

Somehow musta missed Porky´s performance.

Since it´s clear to anyone with at least half a brain that the perps are guilty,
Portly Porky should be ashamed, but doesn´t know what that is.

My usual putdown...
if she´d married look-alike comic Jon Candy...
today she´d be called Candy Candy.
I´m starting to enjoy Portly Porky even better, though. It´s growing on me.

#43, just saw yours after skipping the more recent posts when coming back to post mine.

Good going by you, and there should be more people like you!

Gad Where are peoples´s feelingsm where are their respective emotional quotients. This was a human being-the victim.she should have had a cab called for her.
This generation is a hard generation-n feelings at all.

Speaking of media gushing sympathy for the devil, I challenge anyone to top the sick-joke headline "Girlfriend´s death dashes gridiron hopes" that appeared a few years ago in my local paper--the ValleyTimes, pleasanton, California-- over a large picture of a burly young football player sitting disconsolately with his head in his hands.

You had to read six paragraphs into the article before you learned he had murdered her.

They were charged as juveniles! They got off easy. In a world that wasn´t upside down, the media would be questioning whether it´s right they they will get out at age 21 and, I believe, not have a criminal record.

So, I wonder if Whoopi Goldberg will share with us that this isn´t that big of deal b/c this happens all the time in black culture? For those of you who don´t recall, that was her defense of Michael Vick during the dog-fighting trial.

It´s just the tip of the iceberg of corruption in Steubenville.

For once, the Anonymous hackers have done something good.

http://www.localleaks.me/localleaks/steubenvillefiles/index.html

Next time you sports jocks think about how you should treat young women you need to stop and ask yourself, "What would Bill Clinton do?"

America´s culture is more dangerous for my daughters because of this man.

Seems to me that they´ll fit right in with the NFL.

And after these two get done serving theirjuvie jail time they need to be taken to prison to serve some real-man time...perhaps evena taste of their own medi...never mind.

in re #43, good for you, buddie. Good one.