Exclusive: Steubenville Teens on Tape Describe Night of Sexual Assault

All these kids need to be in jail including the Coach, any school staff that knew, parents who let their home be used for sex and booze fueled parties and anyone else involved in the cover up of this crime.

We have become a nation of unbridled morons.

Hopefully people will understand this is a crime! Parents need to talk to their daughters and sons so this doesn’t happen to them

Did you notice at the sentencing How the Boys Cried and The Fathers looked So Sad … The reason for that was.. They all Realized That The Boys can longer be on the Football Team.

This is disgusting. The lack of regard for people is ridiculous. This isn’t just about steubenville though. This is about people who decide to take the lower road in life. Every one of these kids (boys and girls) could have been in a situation where no one was looking out for them. And yet, the media has expressed such sorrow over the interrupted futures of two boys. Those boys did something without the consent of the person they did it to. They wouldn’t like it if they were passed out and the same was done to them in a different body area. I don’t feel bad for them. When you do something wrong, you have to pay for it. There are certain things that our society cannot tolerate….and taking advantage of another human being in this way is one of the lowest things you could do.

There are some who judge the girl for getting so drunk. They are teenagers. They don’t know anything about social drinking. Even if they’ve gone to a few parties. They don’t know how to say “I’ve had enough.” And that is a testament to their age. And for each and every person, there is a different limit. None of them should have been drinking.

This girl will never go a day without thinking about what happened to her. Regardless of whether she could remember it or not, there is media everywhere. She has interviews of people who didn’t do anything to help her and that is so incredibly sad. The therapy that she will have to go through…I can’t even imagine. These guys would have gone off to college had they not been caught and not thought one thing of this incident. They were laughing about it. Why do people who could care less about how they hurt other people have a fair shot at a great future when others that they hurt have to live in torment? It makes no sense.

We have come pretty far as a society in regard to the way that we view women and men, but our society is unfortunately biased to the futures of young men. It always has been. For whatever reason, we teach women how to defend themselves because others can’t help themselves. This is the wrong way to be thinking. We should be teaching our children and everyone around us to treat each other with respect. And no, it’s not ok to do something just because you can get away with it.

Theres a lot of parents that need to be in jail over this matter. I would just like to know why there aren’t any there. Theres also the place that sold the alcohol to these kids. So many adults to go after yet nothing is being done to any of them. Money still talks and in this case its saying if you have enough you can do as you please…

Those boys should have got a stiffer punishment. And surely the parents of the 16yr old who threw the party will be charged. How did over 50 underage kids get their hands on that much alcohol? After watching this 20/20, I’m even more sickened and outraged by the lack of sense and decency of not only the kids but the adults in that town. My parents were very strict,there was no way in hell they would let me attend a party in high school and nor should they have, even though I felt it wasn’t fair at the time. But they had sense to know that these parties weren’t innocent little gatherings where everybody was drinking soda playing family games or else there wouldn’t be enough people showed up to have a party.

if these kids come from wealthy families, they will get off easy.
it will always be that way.

Shouldn’t the headline read ” Steubenville Teens on Tape Describe Night of RAPE” not Sexual Assault?

I know the majority of drunken high school parties I attended were completely unsupervised with the parents out of town and the alcohol bought by desperate, crafty teenagers. None of that part of this story matters to me. What matters is that two boys who are old enough to know better completely took advantage of an unconscious person, with dozens of witnesses (male and female–some claiming to be friends with the girl), maybe hundreds of recipients of photos, texts, and social media postings, a couple of assistant coaches’ awareness and NO ONE had the moral compass to come forward in AUGUST when it happened. What the hell has happened to us in this country when there is SUCH a severe disconnect between what we DO and what we think of ourselves (the divide exacerbated, I think, by these constructed identities in social media outlets). I’m sick over this story and agree that there should be many more charged and punished for what they FAILED to do in this situation.

@Sammi, I posted something similar on another site. Perhaps we attended high school in the same era. I was friends with a lot of football players in my HS, and these two scumbags would have gotten the crap beat out of them before they ever laid a hand on that girl.

There is a very hard-to-watch video out there of Trent insulting the girl he raped. While Trent is completely disgusting, as is the kid with the camera who’s egging him on, there is at least one guy in the room who wants it to stop. He tries talking with Trent while at a distance, saying “What if that was your daughter?” “I have a little sister,” “This is messed up,” “You raped a girl,” “You’re going to jail”. But Trent laughs it off and keeps going with his “she’s deader than…” comments. I’m pretty sure there is talk about beating Trent up to get it to stop, but a direct confrontation doesn’t happen. We need to teach all of our kids how to effectively stand up to that horrid behavior and make it stop. And if they can’t make it stop, they need to know they can get help.

The problem herein lies in the fact that if one of these kids would have reported the crime at the time, then there would have been an opportunity to cover it up. This happens in small towns every day in this country.. You know what they say, ” It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” An initial report would have provided the opportunity to discredit the witness and destroy evidence. In fact, some of these yuts (youths) were already advise by someone to destroy images on cell phones. The evidence used in trial was created by the witnesses and perpetrators thinking that the time lapse had created a buffer. Therefore, they incriminated themselves through social media. They were bragging. They are lucky they weren’t taken to trial as adults. They have been given a second chance and I hope they take advantage of that an become productive members of society. Malik’s apology seemed genuine..I think he, at least, has learned a lesson. The victim has also learned one, even thought she didn’t deserve to learn it this way.

ABCNEWS..”Investigators want to know how so many honor students, athletes and all-American kids could just stand by and let it all happen.

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Forget about the “honor students, athletes, and all-American kids,” to these juveniles, this incidence was more of a spectacle and fantasy than a crime.

re: “I agree but karma is better because the wind is going to whisper forever what they did.” If you make a fair reckoning you will observe that the wind has actually moved on. All of this sound and fury will product nothing. It is just meaningless noise. We have already forgotten Sandy Point. Nothing meaningful will come from that, either. Digital penetration is foreplay. She was never raped. This is all just a football for the academic Marxist-feminist thought police to kick around. It insists that we all need to learn to respect women but look how women behave. They live completely outside any dependency on males but expect males to ride up on white horses and save them when they get into trouble. It’s absurd. She is going to be an alcoholic.

Maybe I missed somethings…if anyone can fill in the blanks, I would appreciate it. 1) How in the hell weren’t the parents charged? At who’s house did the drinking and raping occur? They should be locked up. 2)has the victim filed civil suits against rapists and homeowners? 3)why hasn’t the coach been charged? He obviously knew and failed to fulfill his legal obligation not to mention his moral obligation. 4) has the football team been suspended from their conference or division? (I don’t know football stuff) 5) Has the school updated their sex ed curriculum, clearly these kids are seriously lacking knowledge about what constitutes rape and they are all lacking in morality. 6) Has the kid who tried to stop it, point out it was wrong, etc…been celebrated? Given a key to city? Something? If we don’t celebrate the good kids – we won’t have many to look forward to! punish bad. celebrate good. nice concept, right?

What was disturbing about the 20/20 show was the many contradictions of what was perceived to be taking place that night and what actually happened. The parents of the two boys, for example, were in denial about their sons did — carry around a drunk girl to molest and sexually assault her throughout the night BECAUSE she was drunk and unresponsive. The students who watched the events unfold and did not think that what these boys were doing was wrong. The texts and photos reveal a generation of “Jekyll/Hyde” personalities. Is there no substance to these kids? Human compassion? Empathy? The rape culture is only symptomatic of diseased sports programs throughout our county and what it doesn’t teach our students.

What i think is disgusting is that the Parents of these two boys are at the courtroom supporting them Like they were the victims, these boys are lucky they only got the amount of time in prison that was handed down to them cause if they were here in California they would have gotten alot more time then that we have 13 womens prsions and 32 mens prisons and that doesn’t include county jails we throw the book at Criminals, especially rapist, But i Blame the Parents i feel like they should have been sentenced to Jail i don’t understand how the fathers were in the court room consoling there Sons knowing they raised a rapist “How Is this possible that parents these days especially fathers aren’t teaching there Sons the Basic Moral compass of How important it is to respect a Women, did they think theses kids are going to learn this on there own, everything on Televion,and Radio basically degrades Women and the twisted part is that we buy into it This case was sick and I BLAME THE PARENTS

Has anyone ever had a teen accidentally forget to clear the history before they log off the computer? When my son was a teen he and his friends would look up videos online and never clear the history. Do you know there are videos out there of college kids making these “rape” videos all the time and the videos are posted to porn sites and XXX sites. Teens see college boys getting drunk and manipulating drunk girls into taking off their clothes and having sex with one or more guys while videos are tapes by several cell phones and posting the videos online. This is who we’ve become. I think until parents become more aware of their children’s behavior, whether they are 5 or 25, this country is going to continue to have severe moral issues.

Re: Project X. There have been many reported parties trying to emulate the Project X party. But also I just think it’s the way these teens party these days. Look at movies like “Hangover” where no-one remembers anything, has sex etc. and it’s a blockbuster. Or the movie with Luke Wilson(forget name) where the grownups form frat, he wakes up with 16 year old with no memory of night, but all is OK she says. No problem. It’s just a mirror of time we live in I think. I think these boys were actually thinking they were doing alright by not having sexual intercourse with the girl. And Mays just thought of it as a hook-up. It got really ugly in that basement, with another joining in etc., but these kids need major education. They should have got the girl home, but should they have left her passed out at the second party? What a total mess.

Totally appalled by what happened. I hope the parents and adults will receive the stiff discipline they deserve. Every one off the young men involved should be totally ashamed of themselves and should be required to attend classes on appropriate sexual behavior and respect for others. It’s time our society ends its excessive celebration of athletics and demands honorable behavior of all who represent their school in any capacity.

This is a study in psychology. Kids are numbed out, too much video, TV, violence, too disconnected from reality and humanity, to the extent that as this unfolded it was just a reality TV show to them. The children of Jerry Springer nation. Too easy to dehumanize someone, sexually objectify, and then she became a sex toy. The herding mentality of like minded acceptance. These kids descended into a primal animal state. This is also a manifestation of the male attitude toward women in general, picked up by these kids through osmosis. Last but not least, values come from your upbringing, so these parents, and all parents, better take a hard look at how they’re raising their kids – how little supervision and guidance they may be getting, how freely they are allowed to let their brains be sucked into the less than real cyberworld

Complete lack of parenting on the part of everybody involved. Too many idiots out there worried about making high mortgage and double car payments rather than bringing their kids up right. How about not living in as fancy a house or buying a used car you morons. Get a CLUE as to what is important in life…and it’s not the f’ing Land-Rover!!! You get what you sew with kids.

She gave consent to hold her like a dead body? She took off her own blouse?

Everything about this story tells me that these guys have absolutely no remorse for what they did. And I’m really disappointed that the reporter isn’t calling the guy out on all of this. Instead, they give him a tearful back story about a hard life to win sympathy from the viewers. Poor form ABC.