Anyone following the Anon v. Steubenville, Ohio HS rapist story making it's way around today?

I understand both sides of the juvenile vs. adult issue, but frankly can't seem to work up too much outrage about either side in this situation. If these boys are 16 years old and haven't figured out that drugging a girl and having sex with her is wrong then I don't see a lot of room for moral development there outside of a tumultuous inner revolution in thought...which can happen at any age.

Plus, I remind you, the young man in the video is 18. Just two years older. Apparently not an instigator of the event although he claims to have had sex with her. I understand (and philosophically support) not trying juveniles as adults but there does become a point, like in this case, when the distinction seems discomfortingly arbitrary.

 

is any progress being made in this case?

 

Yes, that's been news in the Chicago area for a while. Her parents went public with their side of the story a few months after it happened, which is interesting since they're both alums (I think - I know at least one of them is). Their story was published in a cover story of the Tribune on a weekend, which is when they do their best investigative stuff.

That's one of those stories that will probably always be undecided since only two people really know what happened, and one of them is dead. Sad. Very, very sad.

 

Poor little girl. She will never be who she would have been - assuming this is all true.
When justice is being seen to fail.... I cant help but smile towards the screaming maybe nut job who still draws attention and tries to get the right thing done. Outing these people, these 'things' that behaved in such a manner (allegedly) - when the law is wearing the blindfold, but not even using the scales - better than letting it die into the shadows of past without giving the victim the right to protest. This story should not have needed to be outed by masked men (and women) of the internet, the town should have been outraged and raised their own voices in horror.
Spiking a person in itself is a vile thing to do. Spiking a child - did they never develop any morals?
Dress the lot of them up in scout uniforms and bung them in with that vile old bastard of a football coach - and put ground glass in the lubricant.
Poor little girl, who has to prove herself innocent before the law will even consider that they might be guilty.

 

Great defense "she didn't say no"

Of course not, she was passed out.

'She didn't affirmatively say no': Silence means consent according to defense in Ohio high school rape trial where passed out, drunken teenage girl was 'sexually assaulted' by multiple football players | Mail Online

 

Don't they still have to register as sex offenders? They will have a hard time getting into college or finding a job either way.

 

Not unless they're convicted. And then it depends on OH state law on what applies and what doesn't.

 

Hopefully, they will hang themselves in their cells like the Indian bus driver who participated in the gang rape and murder of an innocent female passenger.

 

I don't think that will happen chinese crested I'm afraid there is a sense of invincibility and entitlement here largely due to public adoration and idolatry placed on the football team. Maybe someone will kick the shit out of them, though. One can hope.

 

I will happily donate a fiver for a phone card to any three cellmates who are kind enough to help them hang themselves - obviously by not intervening. In India, the dead girls brother said they were sad that the bus driver hung himself - as they would have seen justice in a public hanging.
The turd headed football players may be big fish a a rather small pond - one hopes that bigger fish in other ponds will remember them when they start to migrate - and rip their fecking heads off.

 

So, what's the GI Joe-style PSA from this whole situation?

Doesn't seem like a very good one.

 

Agree Baraka - mugging victims and robbery victims are not put on trial for looking like they might have a few quid and deserve it for carrying a certain bag or a suit are they. People who fall for scams are not accused of looking greedy and stupid and therefor deserving of being ripped off in some way.
It is the only crime where a victim first has to prove their innocence before they have any chance of being taken seriously - probably why so few come forward. The chances of a sex attacker getting away with it are very high - and they know this. It is a small minority that are tried and punished.
We had a stupid judge here at one time - Wilfred Pickles. He gave a rapist a non custodial sentence - because the rapist had needs, and what with his wife being pregnant..... He also pointed out how the poor rapist had lost his job (I think it was a female co-worker who he date raped.), so I think he gave him a few months probation - and said he was sorry for having had to do so.