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Sex offender status reduced in Steubenville ex-football player rape case

Trent Mays and another high school player in Steubenville were convicted of a raping a West Virginia girl at a party in 2012.
Mays, 19, was also found delinquent for using his phone to take a photo of the nude victim.

The case drew national media attention in part ... to allegations that authorities were covering up the actions of players on the city’s revered football team.
Trent Mays was released in January after serving a two-year sentence in an Ohio Department of Youth Services facility.
Judge Thomas Lipps reduced Mays’ status to the lowest sex-offender level, meaning he must register annually for the next 10 years.

Mays is (now) taking classes at Hocking College in southern Ohio, where he’s also the star quarterback ...

http://www.news-herald.com/general-news/20150925/sex-offender-status-reduced-in-steubenville-ex-football-player-rape-case