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Warning: This article might not be something you want to read if you want to enjoy your coffee and saturday morning reading. More details coming out from Steubenville...and it just gets worse.
EXCLUSIVE: Pictures found on cellphone show TWO MORE girls semi-naked and face down in basement where 16-year-old was 'raped by Ohio school football stars'
Undated photographs were stored on cellphone belonging to friend of the Steubenville case accused Malik Richmond and Trent Mays
Raises chilling possibility of two more, as yet unknown, victims
They show two girls, both face down and in a state of undress on distinctive carpet - strikingly similar to image taken in August of alleged victim
In that photo her arms are tucked underneath her as she was silent, motionless and unconscious as the accused carried out sexual acts on her
MailOnline has seen 300-page transcript of hearing in which full horror of night in Steubenville is revealed
Shocking images have been found on a cellphone showing two more girls, facedown and partially naked on the floor of the same basement where the Ohio rape of a 16-year-old girl allegedly took place, it can be revealed today.
The photographs were stored on a cellphone belonging to a teammate and friend of the Steubenville case accused, Malik Richmond and Trent Mays and raise the chilling possibility of two more, as yet unknown, victims.
The images were not taken on the night under investigation and it is not clear whether their subjects were conscious or aware of being photographed.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2260542/EXCLUSIVE-Pictures-cellphone-TWO-MORE-girls-semi-naked-face-basement-16-year-old-raped-Ohio-football-stars.html?ICO=most_read_module
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)yardwork
(61,588 posts)CrispyQ
(36,446 posts)dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)pretty much use their smartphones to take pictures of cats and argue with friends.
They DO NOT take pictures of 16 year olds in a state of undress.
MagickMuffin
(15,933 posts)All those girls were Legitimately Raped. They all were asking for it don't ya know! And we have also learned that those girls body will shut down any possibilities of being pregnant, and probably even contacting any STD's.
Isn't it grand!?!
Now to be completely serious.
Why aren't the adults who have been allowing underage drinking being charged?
Isn't it disturbing that these underage girls are "drugged" so that they laugh and refer to her as dead and so raped.?
What if the girl had died? What would the local townies done about that? Would the Rape Crew have still thrown her in her yard, peed on her and just left knowing she was dead?
How can any adult condone this behavior?
It really boggles the mind that this behavior is condoned and accepted as normal behavior.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)I grew up in a small town and and football players could get away with anything.
thucythucy
(8,043 posts)Just ask the folks at Penn State.
Seriously, I think football culture is fatally corrosive to human and humane values.
Not to mention, it's a leading cause of closed head injuries.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)it seems like the head injuries might not be such a bad thing.
Gawd works in mysterious ways.
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)Blend them together and no one says a word.
This being a time of Change, such unacceptable things become known and rejected en mass, as they must be. These things have long been occurring and it's time they ended!
vlyons
(10,252 posts)Probably working several jobs. Why were'nt these boys taught to respect women and not do hurtful deeds on other people? Where are the atheletic coaches to teach boys to respect women?
Sad sad sad.
yardwork
(61,588 posts)I read that the Steubenville High School football team has nineteen coaches.
yardwork
(61,588 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Grrrrrrrrrrr
richmwill
(1,326 posts)Have a winning football team, everything else is unimportant. That's your outlook and all you care about, right? Disgusting.
bunnies
(15,859 posts)& I'd be willing to be there are more victims out there we'll never know about. Or at least not yet.
2naSalit
(86,515 posts)This is how psychopathic corporate fucks are created.
bunnies
(15,859 posts)The oil & water barons of the future. They know how it works.
mzmolly
(50,985 posts)Horrid.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)This wasn't just a one time thing gone bad. There are probably a lot more girls who have suspicions that they may have been raped during those times they don't remember about after they had one drink.
This is so disgusting. I fucking want to vomit.
tavalon
(27,985 posts)They had this gig down cold. It wasn't the first, second or even third time they had done it. And unless they are locked away, it won't be their last. Fucking sociopaths.
eilen
(4,950 posts)That would be the first thing I would plan: an escape from Steubenville.
Whisp
(24,096 posts)what hell they must be going through.
I weep for them and the injustice they were dealt.
no other words, I want to say more I want to do more but I am helpless. I weep.
War Horse
(931 posts)proReality
(1,628 posts)They make me sick.
riqster
(13,986 posts)The only way to clear them out.
Heathen57
(573 posts)school that felt sports was the be all and end all even above academics, I can see the kind of atmosphere that would facilitate such feelings of superiority.
That being said, this whole mess turns my stomach. The girls know this was going on, yet they were powerless to stop it, especially if it was reported and the Sheriff swept it under the rug.
IMO, the coaches, the entire Sheriff's department and the prosecutors should be charged as accessories to serial rape. Put the whole bunch of them into prison.
NutmegYankee
(16,199 posts)And it appears that some of the others were not charged because they deleted the photos from their phones! What epic Keystone cop town is this?
Squinch
(50,935 posts)Imagine being a Sophomore girl in what must be the culture of that school.
You know they all know what happened. They all know exactly who was raped. They know the names of the girls that haven't come out yet. Their older sisters know who was raped in years past, so all the girls know that there will be no help if it happens to them. THey all know of girls who have been raped in weeks, months, years past who just kept it quiet. They all know what will happen to them if they tell. The first girl was victimized because she dared to break up with a football player so they all know what will happen to them if they say no to a football player.
It must be like living in hell.
Thank God for Anonymous.
Mopar151
(9,978 posts)There are girls complicit in this mess. Count on it.
Squinch
(50,935 posts)and 16, faced with impossible alternatives, faced with messages from adults that the only important thing here is to be on the popular side of these crimes, and without the maturity to understand any ethical way to navigate through it.
But you are right. In fact, I think someone said to me that one of the voices in one of the videos (I haven't watched any of them) was of a girl who was giggling and clearly complicit.
ladym55
(2,577 posts)I was gushingly told by two reporters on the TV the other night that the sheriff has been (gasp) threatened because what was posted in social media. (subtext--must all be irresponsible lies)
I was told that Steubenville had a website so that we could see the facts of the case and not the hype.
I was also told that the lawyers for the defendants were concerned about what the case was going to their clients' reputation.
What sickened most was this gawdawful sexist reporting was done by two women. Way to go!
tavalon
(27,985 posts)That is so wrong.
RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)How can something as bad as this go on for more than one time? Many, many people knew these rapes were happening, why didn't some adults seek justice for the girls and end this secret society of rape?
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)"whaddya expect - Steubenville has lots of 'sluts'!!1!1!"
davidn3600
(6,342 posts)...says this has been an issue there for a long time. There were lots of rumors of rape.
This is probably the tip of the iceberg.