Steubenville Big Red Football Players Stand Trial On Sex Charges [View all]

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In Steubenville, Ohio, two teen football players accused of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl stand trial next week in a story that has captivated a nation.

By: Bill Schiller Published on Sat Mar 09 2013

Bill McCaffertyabove, Steubenville’s police chief, who denies there was no coverup

STEUBENVILLE, OHIO—It was 1:38 in the morning on Aug. 14 when they came through the doors of the police station in this struggling, one-time steel town on the Ohio River.
They had driven 15 minutes through the dark from their home in nearby West Virginia — parents of an “all-American family,” in the words of their lawyer: hard working, middle class, with strong religious faith and two beautiful children.

But they were sick with worry and grief.

The tale they told explained why.

On the night of Aug. 11 and into the morning of Aug. 12, while attending a series of parties in town, their 16-year-old daughter had been sexually assaulted, raped and possibly urinated on, they said.

The culprits, they claimed, were members of Steubenville High’s “Big Red” football team — local celebrities in this town of 18,500, where high-school football is played in a 10,000-seat stadium and broadcast on TV.

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