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Liberal_in_LA

(44,397 posts) Wed Jan 7, 2015, 11:57 PM Jan 2015

Steubenville rapist weeps as he is released from two yrs in jail

Steubenville rapist WEEPS in court as he's released after two years in juvenile detention for the rape of a 16-year-old girl
Ohio high school football player Trent Mays who was convicted of raping a 16-year-old girl was released today after two years of juvenile detention
A statement from attorney Adam Neeman says Mays earned his release and is now 'eager to prove himself'
Mays and teammate Ma'Lik Richmond, were both found delinquent in the 2012 rape but Richmond was released one year earlier

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2900435/Ohio-high-school-rape-convict-released-custody.html#ixzz3OCNot2Xl

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Steubenville rapist weeps as he is released from two yrs in jail (Original Post) Liberal_in_LA Jan 2015 OP

Ugh. NuclearDem Jan 2015 #1

So…. PROVE yourself, Trent... MrMickeysMom Jan 2015 #2

This message was self-deleted by its author radicalliberal Jan 2015 #3

Well I do believe in rehabilitative justice Shivering Jemmy Jan 2015 #4

Two years in juvie?????? Give me a fricking break. Manifestor_of_Light Jan 2015 #5

Is there any other choice? Shivering Jemmy Jan 2015 #6

I do too, in most cases. Rape and murder being the exceptions. n/t nomorenomore08 Jan 2015 #8

The case also wasn't quite as simple as it came across on the Internet Recursion Jan 2015 #9

He should be weeping with happiness that he got off so (comparatively) lightly. nomorenomore08 Jan 2015 #7

Has this scum done anything at all . . . Brigid Jan 2015 #10

The other guy issued a real apology, but this guy was the one Jamastiene Jan 2015 #14

Post removed Post removed Jan 2015 #11

JG, you're drunk. Go home. NuclearDem Jan 2015 #12

"Flagged for review" over one freaking post. Hope it was worth it to him. nomorenomore08 Jan 2015 #15

Flagged for Review for multiple hides in one night. NutmegYankee Jan 2015 #17

I see... Maybe he *is* drunk... nomorenomore08 Jan 2015 #18

I have no idea. NutmegYankee Jan 2015 #19

Friends should not let friends drink and post on DU davidpdx Jan 2015 #21

He'll be back to his usual smug, self-absorbed, entitled acting self in no time. Jamastiene Jan 2015 #13

+1 nomorenomore08 Jan 2015 #16

I wish I didn't agree, cwydro Jan 2015 #20

yep. n/t BlancheSplanchnik Jan 2015 #22

Awwww, poor little thing. City Lights Jan 2015 #23

NuclearDem

(16,184 posts)

1. Ugh.

Reply to Liberal_in_LA (Original post)

Thu Jan 8, 2015, 12:06 AM

Jan 2015

MrMickeysMom

(20,453 posts)

2. So…. PROVE yourself, Trent...

Reply to Liberal_in_LA (Original post)

Thu Jan 8, 2015, 12:20 AM

Jan 2015

Personally, I wish you to be erased from future headlines as you do.

Response to Liberal_in_LA (Original post)

radicalliberal This message was self-deleted by its author.

Shivering Jemmy

(900 posts)

4. Well I do believe in rehabilitative justice

Reply to radicalliberal (Reply #3)

Thu Jan 8, 2015, 12:51 AM

Jan 2015

Justice for its own sake seems like the kind of cosmic principle I just don't believe in.

Manifestor_of_Light

(21,046 posts)

5. Two years in juvie?????? Give me a fricking break.

Reply to Liberal_in_LA (Original post)

Thu Jan 8, 2015, 12:54 AM

Jan 2015

What a joke. BARF.

Shivering Jemmy

(900 posts)

6. Is there any other choice?

Reply to Manifestor_of_Light (Reply #5)

Thu Jan 8, 2015, 12:56 AM

Jan 2015

Other than trying a child as an adult, which I generally reject.

nomorenomore08

(13,324 posts)

8. I do too, in most cases. Rape and murder being the exceptions. n/t

Reply to Shivering Jemmy (Reply #6)

Thu Jan 8, 2015, 01:24 AM

Jan 2015

Recursion

(56,582 posts)

9. The case also wasn't quite as simple as it came across on the Internet

Reply to Manifestor_of_Light (Reply #5)

Thu Jan 8, 2015, 01:26 AM

Jan 2015

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/08/05/trial-by-twitter?currentPage=all

You have two pairs of guys pointing the finger at each other, one pair having immunity. Add that to a victim with no memory of the attack, and the fact that no rape kit was performed...

nomorenomore08

(13,324 posts)

7. He should be weeping with happiness that he got off so (comparatively) lightly.

Reply to Liberal_in_LA (Original post)

Thu Jan 8, 2015, 01:20 AM

Jan 2015

Should've done 5-10 years just for the rape, plus possible enhancements if he drugged the girl etc.

Brigid

(17,621 posts)

10. Has this scum done anything at all . . .

Reply to Liberal_in_LA (Original post)

Thu Jan 8, 2015, 01:29 AM

Jan 2015

To apologize or make restitution to the girl for this crime? Does he ever think about what she has been through, and will continue to deal with, for the rest of her life? I seriously doubt it.

Jamastiene

(38,187 posts)

14. The other guy issued a real apology, but this guy was the one

Reply to Brigid (Reply #10)

Thu Jan 8, 2015, 02:45 AM

Jan 2015

that only said he was sorry he took pictures and not for the rape itself. He's a smug little jerk. Two years is not long enough for what he did.

Response to Liberal_in_LA (Original post)

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NuclearDem

(16,184 posts)

12. JG, you're drunk. Go home.

Reply to Post removed (Reply #11)

Thu Jan 8, 2015, 01:40 AM

Jan 2015

nomorenomore08

(13,324 posts)

15. "Flagged for review" over one freaking post. Hope it was worth it to him.

Reply to NuclearDem (Reply #12)

Thu Jan 8, 2015, 04:19 AM

Jan 2015

NutmegYankee

(16,212 posts)

17. Flagged for Review for multiple hides in one night.

Reply to nomorenomore08 (Reply #15)

Thu Jan 8, 2015, 04:37 AM

Jan 2015

nomorenomore08

(13,324 posts)

18. I see... Maybe he *is* drunk...

Reply to NutmegYankee (Reply #17)

Thu Jan 8, 2015, 04:44 AM

Jan 2015

NutmegYankee

(16,212 posts)

19. I have no idea.

Reply to nomorenomore08 (Reply #18)

Thu Jan 8, 2015, 04:53 AM

Jan 2015

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6054645

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6055310

davidpdx

(22,000 posts)

21. Friends should not let friends drink and post on DU

Reply to nomorenomore08 (Reply #18)

Thu Jan 8, 2015, 08:58 AM

Jan 2015

Jamastiene

(38,187 posts)

13. He'll be back to his usual smug, self-absorbed, entitled acting self in no time.

Reply to Liberal_in_LA (Original post)

Thu Jan 8, 2015, 02:43 AM

Jan 2015

Disgusting

nomorenomore08

(13,324 posts)

16. +1

Reply to Jamastiene (Reply #13)

Thu Jan 8, 2015, 04:22 AM

Jan 2015

cwydro

(51,308 posts)

20. I wish I didn't agree,

Reply to Jamastiene (Reply #13)

Thu Jan 8, 2015, 08:07 AM

Jan 2015

but I do.

Plus all the football worshipping "men" of the town will be standing in line to give him a job and all the help he needs.

BlancheSplanchnik

(20,219 posts)

22. yep. n/t

Reply to cwydro (Reply #20)

Thu Jan 8, 2015, 01:11 PM

Jan 2015

City Lights

(25,171 posts)

23. Awwww, poor little thing.

Reply to Liberal_in_LA (Original post)

Thu Jan 8, 2015, 01:14 PM

Jan 2015

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