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Showing Original Post only (View all)Steubenville looks to be another Penn State. [View all]
http://localleaks.blogs.ru/Seems like this has been going on for some time as well.
The main alleged perpetrators are referred to as "The Rape Crew".
Which likely points to other instances of sexual assault by these people.
Disgusting.
Even worse. Looks like they had help.
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/01/inside-anonymous-hacking-file-steubenville-rape-crew/60502/
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Well, I will admit I don't know the usernames of all the DU football fans, . . .
radicalliberal
Jan 2013
#98
I had told you in a PM that I would no longer post in any more of these Steubenville topics;
radicalliberal
Jan 2013
#170
The poster you have just mentioned was severely bullied by jocks at his high school, . . .
radicalliberal
Jan 2013
#99
I didn't know you had PTSD. You must have really suffered. I'm very sorry . . .
radicalliberal
Jan 2013
#219
The problem with the bad culture that is active in Steubenville and elsewhere . . .
radicalliberal
Jan 2013
#101
Theory is that there was a date rape drug involved. Girl was unconscious for so long
Liberal_in_LA
Jan 2013
#153
The boy who hosted one of the houses where the girl was raped is the son of the prosecuting attorney
yardwork
Jan 2013
#18
She was given GHB, a date rape drug. She was NOT partying and drunk, she was deliberately
riderinthestorm
Jan 2013
#64
The police chief said some people are "simply jealous" of the football team.
Jamastiene
Jan 2013
#76
With each horrid story, my one hope is that the Social Media now makes it harder and harder to lie
libdem4life
Jan 2013
#29
Kind of like Foley got caught in IM Hell, Romney got caught in a 47% Reality Show.
libdem4life
Jan 2013
#97
Don't laugh, Skittles. We'll still be arguing at 109 on DU… that's a date, okay?
KittyWampus
Jan 2013
#166
I think the officials who cover this up are really commiting the more serious crime.
MindPilot
Jan 2013
#37
Damn spell checker did it. The Sheriff gave an interview on the radio this morning and
doc03
Jan 2013
#71
The sheriff is a personal friend of the coach. He's probably part of the cover-up.
radicalliberal
Jan 2013
#72
The police chief said some people are "simply jealous" of the football team.
Jamastiene
Jan 2013
#77
Uh, the rapists themselves are on facebook bragging about this. Are you watching?
riderinthestorm
Jan 2013
#65
no, i think it's a bit more than that. it's a room full of high school boys talking about a rape.
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
#95
There wasn't going to be a trial until Anonymous published their tweets and FB videos.
yardwork
Jan 2013
#108
Did you watch the video made by the perpetrators themselves? And read their own tweets?
yardwork
Jan 2013
#149
The high school in this very depressed town has a better swimming facility than WVU?
yardwork
Jan 2013
#155
blown way out of proportion? videotapping a GANG-RAPE at multiple houses, with coaches
niyad
Jan 2013
#160
There is a video tape of the rape? Please provide a link I want to see it. I haven't heard
doc03
Jan 2013
#186
There was videotape of the rape but it has been "lost" by the same authorities
yardwork
Jan 2013
#188
The judge found "clear evidence that one of the defendants transmitted sexually oriented pictures
yardwork
Jan 2013
#206
Well how could that be, from the many posts on the subject I have read on DU the courts
doc03
Jan 2013
#207
They destroyed most of it, or didn't bother to find it. Did you read the testimony?
yardwork
Jan 2013
#208
to be so flippant and unconcerned, when we are talking about a kid gang raped. disgraceful. nt
seabeyond
Jan 2013
#214
you refuse to acknowledge the facts taht are out there to maintain your defence of people and a town
seabeyond
Jan 2013
#217
No, you are the one refusing to recognize evidence that you are confronted with.
yardwork
Jan 2013
#218
Hey, I guess everyone should have kept quiet during the Watergate scandal ...
radicalliberal
Jan 2013
#105
The State of Ohio investigators turned the text message over to the Steubenville
doc03
Jan 2013
#140
would you consider posting this as its own OP? I wish I could rec it a million times.
niyad
Jan 2013
#165
He and the sheriff and the prosecuting attorney and all 19 coaches in Steubenville.
yardwork
Jan 2013
#117
But we were supposed to wait for the (nonexistent) trial before passing judgement.
yardwork
Jan 2013
#119
this is really a disgusting post... so, we shame her with comments from all involved, living in the
seabeyond
Jan 2013
#163
This is the bitter fruit of the jock culture. A bit noxious, wouldn't you say?
radicalliberal
Jan 2013
#189
bryant, pittsburgh steelers quaterback rapist. these rapists are on national tv held up as gods
seabeyond
Jan 2013
#191
These people are rape enablers. Football is their sacred cow/calf, and they're blind to truth.
radicalliberal
Jan 2013
#193
that is what made me fall in love all over again with husband. we had such a bright, joyful,
seabeyond
Jan 2013
#195
Hey, I've taken up bodybuilding late in my life. I've gained muscular development . . .
radicalliberal
Jan 2013
#196
agreed. a person that was immersed in it all my life and main focus of our family...
seabeyond
Jan 2013
#199
you can't imagine the shame it is causing the father and grandfather of one of the perps? If they
niyad
Jan 2013
#167
If I have anesthaesia on day one, I can not sign a legal document or even drive for 24 hours.
Lars39
Jan 2013
#200
i do not get why we sell our young men out so easily. you are right, you and most young guys would
seabeyond
Jan 2013
#187
I feel sorry for the players, but the pain of their disappointment should lessen over time.
radicalliberal
Jan 2013
#226