# I pit the legal community of Steubenville Ohio **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 4, 2013, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-legal-community-of-steubenville-ohio/646016 "2013-01-04T00:20:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-legal-community-of-steubenville-ohio/646016/102 "2013-03-18T00:58:00Z")
There have already been tweets threatening/mocking the victim since the verdict came out. Most of the accounts responsible have either since protected their tweets or have mysteriously vanished. :dubious: Here’s one who’s still swinging the stupid: [https://twitter.com/GorJESSSSS\_](https://twitter.com/GorJESSSSS_) She makes me ashamed of my gender. ---
**Author:** ![panaccione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/94ad74/32.png) [@panaccione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panaccione)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-legal-community-of-steubenville-ohio/646016/103 "2013-03-18T02:00:35Z")
> [@Pixiesnix](#): > > There have already been tweets threatening/mocking the victim since the verdict came out. Most of the accounts responsible have either since protected their tweets or have mysteriously vanished. :dubious: > > Here’s one who’s still swinging the stupid: > > [https://twitter.com/GorJESSSSS\_](https://twitter.com/GorJESSSSS_) > > She makes me ashamed of my gender. Look at it this way. She’s destroying her reputation by showing everyone how much of an idiot she is. We can only hope more have the “courage” to speak up and I only encourage them to do so. ---
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-legal-community-of-steubenville-ohio/646016/104 "2013-03-18T02:19:35Z")
Zero sympathy for these scumbags. I find particularly loathsome that one of them said, after the verdict, that no pictures should have been taken. No, asshole, you shouldn’t have raped the victim. Fuckers. ---
**Author:** ![Enkel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@Enkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enkel)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-legal-community-of-steubenville-ohio/646016/105 "2013-03-18T02:35:43Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Update: [two teens convicted in juvenile court of the girl’s rape](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/18/us/teenagers-found-guilty-in-rape-in-steubenville-ohio.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0). From the link: > [@](#): > > Mr. Mays apologized to the victim by name, as well as to her family and the community. **“No pictures should have been sent around, let alone ever taken,”** he said. > > Mr. Richmond then walked toward the family and said: “I had not intended to do anything like this. I’m sorry to put you through this.” After that he broke down, unable to speak, and embraced a court officer. This guy couldn’t find a clue if it wriggled across his face! In his mind, the problem is that there were pictures? I bet you they still believe that because she wasn’t able to say NO, that was consent. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-legal-community-of-steubenville-ohio/646016/106 "2013-03-18T02:36:44Z")
[CNN grieves that guilty verdict ruined ‘promising’ lives of Steubenville rapists](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/17/cnn-grieves-that-guilty-verdict-ruined-promising-lives-of-steubenville-rapists/) There aren’t enough :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![ZPG\_Zealot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47c2d/32.png) [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-legal-community-of-steubenville-ohio/646016/107 "2013-03-18T02:37:59Z")
Anyone other than me tempted to send them an empty jar of lube? ---
**Author:** ![panaccione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/94ad74/32.png) [@panaccione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panaccione)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-legal-community-of-steubenville-ohio/646016/108 "2013-03-18T02:54:59Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > [CNN grieves that guilty verdict ruined ‘promising’ lives of Steubenville rapists](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/17/cnn-grieves-that-guilty-verdict-ruined-promising-lives-of-steubenville-rapists/) > > There aren’t enough :rolleyes: Unbelievable. What happens next? I guess they will be registered sex offenders, but aren’t criminal charges supposed to go away once a minor becomes an adult? ---
**Author:** ![Enkel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@Enkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enkel)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-legal-community-of-steubenville-ohio/646016/109 "2013-03-18T02:59:40Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > [CNN grieves that guilty verdict ruined ‘promising’ lives of Steubenville rapists](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/17/cnn-grieves-that-guilty-verdict-ruined-promising-lives-of-steubenville-rapists/) Again from the link: > [@](#): > > Candy then asked CNN legal contributor Paul Callan what the verdict meant for “a 16 year old, sobbing in court, **regardless of what big football players they are, they still sound like 16 year olds**.” > > “What’s the lasting effect though on two young men being found guilty juvenile court of rape essentially?” Crowley wondered. > > “There’s always that moment of just — **lives are destroyed** ,” Callan remarked. “But in terms of what happens now, the most severe thing with **these young men is being labeled as registered sex offenders. That label is now placed on them by Ohio law**.” > > “That will haunt them for the rest of their lives.” (Double checks that this is the Pit)… Good Fucking Lord! These are NEWS COMMENTATORS… These are adults… What about the victim? You know… the girl that was RAPED??? Do you think she’s not going to live with it the rest of her life? Hoorah for Ohio Law and I hope they are registered sex offenders FOREVER! I say their parents should get bumper stickers that say “I raised a sex offender” Maybe then some of these privileged brats will wake up and act like humans instead of the jackasses that their parents have let them become. ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-legal-community-of-steubenville-ohio/646016/110 "2013-03-18T14:17:00Z")
> [@ZPG\_Zealot](#): > > Anyone other than me tempted to send them an empty jar of lube? No, because prison rape is no funnier than what those boys did to that girl. ---
**Author:** ![miss\_elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@miss\_elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miss_elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-legal-community-of-steubenville-ohio/646016/111 "2013-03-18T14:22:48Z")
> [@MegaBee](#): > > No, because prison rape is no funnier than what those boys did to that girl. Thank you for pointing that out. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-legal-community-of-steubenville-ohio/646016/112 "2013-03-18T14:31:06Z")
> [@MegaBee](#): > > No, because prison rape is no funnier than what those boys did to that girl. They won’t be raped, they’ll be glorified. This isn’t The Shawshank Redemption. This isn’t Scared Straight. This is 2013. In a town where the cops deleted evidence, in a town where the cops knew and one of their homes was used to host a party that was a pivotal event in the crime timeline. Hate to think that the Registered Sex Offender status is deleted at 18- or 21. They’ll be angry sex offenders who think it’s great to abuse a woman for their entire lives. That attitude and behavior won’t magically end at the end of their age of minority. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-legal-community-of-steubenville-ohio/646016/113 "2013-03-18T15:25:43Z")
So a rape victim is supposed to keep quiet so as not to destroy her rapists lives? I hope that CNN commentator follows that rule if any member of her family gets raped. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-legal-community-of-steubenville-ohio/646016/114 "2013-03-18T15:27:17Z")
+1 ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-legal-community-of-steubenville-ohio/646016/115 "2013-03-18T16:08:19Z")
Imagine? CNN reporter is on the road. Gets drunk in hotel bar. Wakes up in someone elses room. No panties on. Sore vagina. And when she reports it to her HR dept, she is told not to ruin the lives,of the two male reporters who raped her and shared the video of it on the Net. Apparently, she would be a-ok with that. Really… ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-legal-community-of-steubenville-ohio/646016/116 "2013-03-18T18:03:02Z")
> [@ZPG\_Zealot](#): > > Anyone other than me tempted to send them an empty jar of lube? Why empty? Are habañero peppers out of season? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-legal-community-of-steubenville-ohio/646016/117 "2013-03-18T22:04:40Z")
I’d just like to mention that Fox News, which has declined to broadcast the names of the now-convicted rapists, did apparently feel it was appropriate to [air a statement which identified the victim by name.](http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/03/18/1736351/fox-news-steubenville/) Stay classy, Fox. ---
**Author:** ![tellyworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@tellyworth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tellyworth)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-legal-community-of-steubenville-ohio/646016/118 "2013-03-18T22:19:53Z")
> [@Pixiesnix](#): > > Most of the accounts responsible have either since protected their tweets or have mysteriously vanished. :dubious: Twitchy has a [page of similar tweets](http://twitchy.com/2013/03/17/some-twitter-users-side-with-steubenville-rapists/), including some from accounts now vanished. ---
**Author:** ![jlzania](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/67e7ee/32.png) [@jlzania](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jlzania)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-legal-community-of-steubenville-ohio/646016/119 "2013-03-18T22:21:25Z")
> [@Feyrat](#): > > Why the fuck not? They’ve ruined that girl’s life. I think it’s the least that can be done, frankly. > > And every rapist engages in an average of 6 rapes. It is a recidivist thing. The best thing that can be done with these young males is to remove them from society completely. I for one am not concerned for their well-being in accomplishing this. > > As do I. No, they have not ruined her life. What happened was to her was horrible and she will be forever changed but her life is not ruined. ---
**Author:** ![miss\_elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@miss\_elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miss_elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-legal-community-of-steubenville-ohio/646016/120 "2013-03-18T22:27:55Z")
> [@jlzania](#): > > No, they have not ruined her life. What happened was to her was horrible and she will be forever changed but her life is not ruined. This is true. I am a victim of rape, and my life is far from ruined. To be fair, serving a year in juvie hardly qualifies as “life ruining” either, though. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-legal-community-of-steubenville-ohio/646016/121 "2013-03-19T02:41:57Z")
In Ohio, a juvenile rape conviction can never be expunged, so it’ll be on their records forever. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-legal-community-of-steubenville-ohio/646016.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-legal-community-of-steubenville-ohio/646016.md?page=7)