I suppose they had to come up with something, but the Steubenville defense is getting crushed

[cali]

already.

Friend says he saw Steubenville rape suspects sexually assaulting the victim

A teenage witness who was granted immunity in exchange for his testimony said he took a photo of two football stars accused of rape performing sex acts on a passed-out, naked 16-year-old girl.

“She wasn't moving. She wasn't talking. She wasn't participating,” said Anthony Craig, 18, a friend of defendants Trent Mays and Ma'lik Richmond.

Mays, 17, and Richmond, 16, are charged with raping the Weirton, W.Va., girl after parties attended by dozens of drunk teens in August. The boys deny involvement. Their attorneys say the girl never lost consciousness or the ability to make decisions. Craig's testimony came on third day of the trial.

When the prosecutor asked why he took the photo, Craig said, “I don't know. I was stupid.”




Read more: http://triblive.com/news/adminpage/3667339-74/girl-mays-craig#ixzz2NeaMBgMf

[Butterbean]

1. Good. I hope they go down in flames. n/t

[niyad]

2. I didn't think it could get much worse, but that disgusting defense attorney saying, "if she didn't

affirmatively say no, she was affirmatively saying yes" made me ill. if you cannot "affirmatively say no, you are in no condition to consent, disgusting pos.

[dballance]

3. This is Just Really Awful

Rather than render assistance to the young woman whose life could have been in danger they drug her around from party to party and allegedly urinated on her. How totally despicable these boys were.

It's not all that surprising. Football stars are regularly forgiven of their sins.

So she was possibly too drunk to say "no?" That's a defense? I don't think so. Why the men possibly believe her inability to say no makes it okay to sexually abuse her is just awful. Try having some respect for another person guys.

[seabeyond]

5. also, the one testifying is no hero. he was there particpating, taking pictures and

sharing it with others with a lot of giggling and jabbing in the ribs.

he may not be prosecuted. but he gets no badges of honors for the truth.

[Comrade Grumpy]

4. Of course the defense is getting crushed! They don't have one.

Those guys are getting convicted.

[Skittles]

6. this guy took pictures

18 years old is old enough to know better - what a disgusting piece of garbage

[redqueen]

7. Yep.

It's chilling to think about, how many people saw this going on and did nothing to help... or worse, took pictures or joked about it.

[Skittles]

8. don't they have sisters, mothers, female friends?

do they have ANY compassion or sense of decency? WTF IS WRONG WITH THEM?

[MattBaggins]

9. Large number of men have been brought up to blame the woman.

Look at the times Chris Hanson busted guys with kids waiting in the car.

I used to ask guys at work who were bragging about nights at the strip clubs who I knew had girls why they went there.

"Oh well they should have better fathers"
"Yeah thank god for bad fathers"

Yes some of them actually blamed the fathers rather than the girls; but still didn't care.