"Some in the crowd, which would grow to close to 50 people, arrived with beer"

[lapislzi]

120. You're not from around here, are you?

Only 2 were charged, and then had charges reduced and kicked to juvenile. The corruption in this town is so rank; it goes right to the very top. In the unlikely event (IMO) that there are convictions, they will amount to little more than a wrist slap.

When in fact the damned town is as rotten as rotten can be. Every single adult who knew about alcohol being served to minors should be charged, and fired from any position having to do with the school. Every kid at those parties who saw and did nothing should be charged with accessory. Every kid who tweeted and posted should be charged.

The football program should be terminated.

Only then will others get the message that football players are not a protected class. Only then will the message be sent that some people are above the law. Only then (and probably not even then) will the message be sent that young women are not sex toys for boys. But I don't see that happening, in Steubenville, or anywhere else in the U.S.