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High School Students Were Attending The End Of Summer Parties

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Steubenville, Ohio, August 11, 2012. High school students were attending the end of summer parties after a triumphant Big Red scrimmage game. The fun results in Ma’lik Richmond age 16 and Trent Mays age 17, two star football players, being charged with rape. Three parties were attended that night by four football players, two of which were Mays and Richmond, along with a 16-year-old female, Jane Doe, who was acquainted with Mays. The first party was given by another 16-year-old girl whose parents were not home, with an estimated 50 or more teens in attendance, but when her older brother arrived, he broke up the party. According to witnesses, Jane Doe appeared to be intoxicated when she left. She had been drinking a large blend of liquors. The second party was held by a member of the football team and his mother eventually made anyone who was not spending the night leave. During this time, Jane Doe was seen vomiting several times. The third party, 10-15 minutes away, was also held by a team member. In route to the third party, witnesses say that Jane Doe who was not responsive was being recorded by cellphone as her breasts were exposed and she was digitally penetrated by Mays. According to the Ohio revised code “2907.01 …insertion, however slight, of any part of the body or any instrument, apparatus, or other object into the vaginal or anal opening of another…, (Law writer, 2008)” is rape. Once inside the third home Mays allegedly tried to orally rape Jane Doe. Mays and

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