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

It's horrific that this can happen.
Cliffnotes - A boy decides to get back at his 16 year old ex-gf. He and his buddies from the football team decide to drug her into unconsciousness. They haul her from party to party allowing guys to gang rape her, sodomize her, and urinate on her. They take pictures. They send out social messages. Tweet jokes about it. And then make a 12 minute film joking in vulgar terms about how "dead" she felt, about her not flinching when the sodomized her, and how funny it all was. They dub themselves "Rape Crew".
But it gets worse. It seems that the championship football team is king in this town. The sheriff and school faculty try to help cover things up. They "lose" the 12 minute video of the boys basically confessing and cracking jokes about it. They aren't able to get evidence off of 3 phones that recorded various parts of the evening. Other girls come forward saying they've had similar things happen to them, but nothing is really done to follow up. The BCI (Ohio's state investigation group) sends an investigator to check on it all after getting complaints of corruption and a cover-up. The BCI just so happens to be a friend and former client of the local prosecuter. The local prosecuter happens to be the mother of a football player who is a teammate of the rapists. Rumors are there of an even more personal involvement between the two. The investigator finds that everything is on the up and up. The investigation languishes. Over four months go by.
Then Anon gets the story.
They post this video warning the rapists and all others involved in the cover up.


They post some of these snippets at various places online:

Mr Parks is the webmaster for the HS and owner of a fan website for the football team:

The 12 minute video full of the rapists making jokes.



News story:
Steubenville High School Students Joke About Rape In Video Leaked By Anonymous

As disgusting and horrific as this is to me, I can't imagine being the parent of a teenage daughter. Let alone the poor parents of the girl involved, or the other girls this happened to. I think if I had a teenage daughter mature enough to understand what happened, I'd make her watch the videos and read this story just to show her how bad some people can sink.
I don't know if this makes me more angry or more sick to my stomach.

 

I very rarely applaud Anon. I think usually their judgment leans to the correct direction as to the causes, but I tend to agree with you as to their methods.

This time the entire story makes me not care what they did to get the info.

 

Some better written, more detailed stories have popped up in the last few hours.

Everything You Need to Know About Steubenville High's Football 'Rape Crew' - National - The Atlantic Wire

Social media casts spotlight on Ohio rape case - CNN.com



I know when I hear of a town that has 18,000 people in it, and the High School football team's stadium sells out it's 19,000 seat stadium every Friday night, it tells me that the town's opinion of HS football is skewed compared to where I think it should be. And I would venture to guess I watch and follow sports as much as anyone here.


I'm guessing we know a lot more in the next week or two, now that so much attention is being shed on the case. Hopefully the complete truth comes out.

 

It's amazing how it took so long to get media attention. The first I heard about it was within the context of the horrific rape incident in India that's now sparked quite a bit of outrage. The comment piece points to the irony of Western criticism considering how rape culture exists in the West as well, and that there are even brutal incidents like this one in Ohio that fly under the media radar.

Delhi gang-rape: look westward in disgust | Emer O'Toole | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

 

I never understood this sentiment. If one condones rape under certain circumstances outside of the legal system, then I suppose one believes it's not all that bad. Or maybe one believes that cruel and unusual punishment is okay. I can think of a few classic examples of others who thought the same.

 

I saw this on Reddit last week and was rather sickened by the whole thing. I grew up in a small town where the Friday night lights were a big deal, but this really takes the cake.

Jezebel ran a piece today on it, with a link to a site that has the whole thing: Anonymous Releases More Intel on the Alleged Steubenville 'Rape Crew'

I agree with this quote from the Jezzy piece: "Of course, the real problem is that our culture necessitates internet vigilantism."

 

Well, the story went from being buried and known by almost no one to making the front page of several major news sites today, and it'll be featured on Anderson Cooper tonight. Hopefully that leads to the truth coming out and the proper action being taken against both those guilty of the crime, and guilty of covering it up to protect the football program.

 

It makes Baby Jesus cry.