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Steubenville football players rape trial begins
Opening statements have been heard in the trial of two Ohio high-school footballers accused of raping a 16-year-old girl.
Trenton Mays, 17, and Ma'lik Richmond, 16, are charged as juveniles in the incident in Steubenville after an alcohol-fuelled party on 11 August.
Prosecutors said the accused had known the girl was too impaired to consent, but the defence denied she was raped.
On Wednesday, prosecutor Marianne Hemmeter told Judge Thomas Lipps, who is hearing the case without a jury, that the girl was "somebody who was too impaired to say no, somebody who was too impaired to say stop".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21773501