Ultraviolet: No Justice This Week in Steubenville

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Ultraviolet: No Justice This Week in Steubenville


The prosecution of a school administrator at the center of a notorious rape case settled out of court on Monday. An anti-rape-activist considers the deal excessively lenient and worries about what it means for a related prosecution of another school official.




(WOMENSENEWS)--Karin Roland, campaign director at the online women's activist group UltraViolet, has a simple reaction to the deal struck this week keeping an Ohio school administrator out of court and jail. "This is wrong" says Roland.

She also worries about its implications for pending prosecutions related to the nationally sensational case of an intoxicated female teen raped in the summer 2012. "It does really concern me," Roland said. "I don't know if there will be a direct impact but justice should be served for anyone who is complicit, who helped covered up this Steubenville. Everyone who was involved should be put in jail."

As widely reported, all charges brought against Michael McVey, superintendent of Steubenville City Schools, for deleting evidence and misleading authorities investigating the rape were dropped on Jan. 12, the day his trial was scheduled to begin, in exchange for resigning and being barred from any further work in Steubenville schools.

"That is not how we should be punishing crimes in this country," said Roland. "You can obstruct justice, delete computers' hard drives and cover up evidence of a rape but instead of being sent to jail for it, you just resign from your job and you go about your business."

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