Four CT Football Players Charged In Rape Of 13-Year-Olds

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42. Could happen, as the Ohio AG will convene a grand jury to pursue further charges

for potential accessories to the Steubenville HS rape i.e. those who witnessed and failed to report, the coaches who heard about the incident but failed to report, etc.

Additionally as I have posted before, the 18-year-old students charged face anywhere from 9 months to 20 years in prison per Connecticut law of 2nd-degree sexual assault. (see this in-depth local newspaper article for more info about the 18-year-olds charged for the rapes.) This 17-year-old boy will face charges of " second-degree assault and risk of injury to a minor." However, he's being tried in juvenile court, so he might be sentenced to just 1 or 2 years or until his 21st birthday, similarly to how the Steubenville rapists were sentenced.

From these two stories the two 18-y/o suspects are all charged with these crimes:
- 2nd degree sexual assault
- risk of injury to a minor with sexual contact
- risk of injury to a minor

Chapter 939, section 53, title 21 describes risk of injury to minor:

(a) Any person who (1) wilfully or unlawfully causes or permits any child under the age of sixteen years to be placed in such a situation that the life or limb of such child is endangered, the health of such child is likely to be injured or the morals of such child are likely to be impaired, or does any act likely to impair the health or morals of any such child, or (2) has contact with the intimate parts, as defined in section 53a-65, of a child under the age of sixteen years or subjects a child under sixteen years of age to contact with the intimate parts of such person, in a sexual and indecent manner likely to impair the health or morals of such child...shall be guilty of a class C felony for a violation of subdivision (1)...of this subsection and a class B felony for a violation of subdivision (2) of this subsection...

So if the adult suspects are convicted at least two of these charges and serve their sentences consecutively not concurrently, they could face anywhere from 1.5 to 40 years in state prison! in that regard CT general statute chapter 952, section 53a, title 37 says: "When a person is sentenced for two or more counts each constituting a separate offense, the court may order that the term of imprisonment for the second and subsequent counts be for a fixed number of years each. The court in such cases shall not set any minimum term of imprisonment except under the first count, and the fixed number of years imposed for the second and subsequent counts shall be added to the maximum term imposed by the court on the first count."