There were something like 60 to 80 teenagers at this party, and enough alcohol that many of them got stinking drunk; the victim was so intoxicated that she couldn’t remember the assault at all, and testified that all she remembered was waking up naked in a strange house.

But alcohol doesn’t just magically appear: either a liquor store had to have directly sold the booze to underaged buyers, or at least one adult must have provided it to the teenagers . . . yet not one single adult has been charged with this crime yet.

Just where were all of the parents? If the victim awoke at a strange house, then she obviously didn’t go home that night; where were her parents, and how did they not know this, and why weren’t they frantic? How about the house in which she did awaken; were there no parents wondering what a strange, naked teenager was doing at their house?

There will be civil suits to be sure. And while these teens are culpable for their own acts (and there is plenty of culpability to go around), adults who enabled it should be charged with something appropriate related to that enabling.

To buy alcohol, an adult would have to be 21 in Ohio, but stupidity can occur at 21, too.

That this young woman was irresponsible and foolish does not justify what was done to her. No doubt she was a foolish girl.

The fact is that several others are criminally culpable as accessories, but those the evidence pointed out were needed to testify to the crime itself and so were able to negotiate immunity. That happens in criminal cases where there isn’t enough physical evidence alone for a conviction.

I don’t see what any of this does to refute the reputation of the town’s propensity to give football players a pass on criminal behavior.

I am not sure what the point of that is Lee, other than to refute the roofies part of the story. Yeah, she was stupid, got blind drunk and someone likely took advantage of that (two were convicted of it). The civil thing to do would be some girls taking care of her so she could get home.

And I am not for any witch hunts (and I am glad for your efforts in that), but her being drunk does not make anything that did happen all right. The question is proof of what happened.

Here in Pennsy it’s 18.

I think his point is that not all the alcohol at the party was provided at the party, and the girl has no one else to blame for getting drunk than herself. This does not mitigate what was done to her one iota, however.

Fifty years ago I was buying bottles of cheap vodka out of the back door of an obliging liquor store, using a fake ID I made myself. I know of at least two similar incidents that occurred in my own midwestern town, in which nothing was ever done. After all, in my town, short of murder, the basketball players were untouchable.

As for the parents and where they were? Where they always are: Utterly clueless about what their kids are actually doing.

That they were convicted goes a long way to refute it.

Dana,

Where the parents were and were not, just like the question ‘who sold/brought alcohol’ was likely judged as not germaine to the case. As Adjoran aptly demonstrates, the responsibility of the victim is not to be explored as the Feminists have declared that verboten, a second rape if you will. The woman raped was not asking for it, and the men involved should have been gentlemen and protected her regardless of her relationship to them.

Evi is spot on – there will be civil suits as the lawyers seek what they consider their due from people who lack deep pockets. So Absolut, Barcardi, Captain Morgan, and Dewars will be sued.

As for the young woman who was raped – what happens to her? And the rest of the community? Whole lotta hate got stirred up. Usually when that happens, a rapist knows to kills her or his victim to hide the crime. Steubenville just got a lot more dangerous due to the hate fomented by media malpractice.

You are probably right that where the parents were won’t be seen as germane to the case, but it damned well should be! It won’t be seen as germane, because the parents of the kids who were out getting drunk but didn’t get in any trouble due to it are breathing a sigh of relief, but won’t be willing to change their ways.

The number one rule in Parenting 101, a rule no one wants to admit is the case: if you don’t want your children to drink or smoke or use drugs, then don’t drink or smoke or use drugs yourself. Kids may be immature, but they have a very good sense of hypocrisy.

Agreed. I would like to know where she got the booze she brought.

It is past the statute of limitations, but there was a certain elks club that made the mistake of storing beer and booze in the back and not locking the door…

I am sure a karmic price has been paid for that.

so what? the bank gets robbed and its the banks fault?

She was deliberately lured by a false friend & drugged – Google “Cody Saltsman” & get educated.

She was drinking, heavily. She may have been drugged as well, but nobody knows that. She was definitely raped, under the definition of the law, but sorry, no, that does not mean she wasn’t behaving badly herself.

WHERE WERE HER PARENTS?

That’s every town where Americans live. Friday Night Lights bring communities together.

You know, I’m just not going to read anymore articles at Breitbart until they get some moderation of their septic tank full of comments. I love free speech, but that doesn’t mean I’d let someone sit in my house and spew garbage.

It makes the site look unprofessional, right off the top. Like showing up at a golf tournament, only to find that the greens are covered in dog excrement, and full of weeds.

Next will be comments about the “rape culture” of evangelicals and people who go to church.