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
Sexual assault is sexual activity of any kind that does not involve the other person’s consent. Sexual assault includes rape, forced sodomy, forced oral sex, and any form of unwanted sexual touching. Most common types of sexual assault are mostly affiliated with the drugs of roofies or GHB being slipped into a drink. This often appears to happen at college parties. According to research, “the typical scenario of sexual assault on college campus includes the woman’s drinking at a party and playing drinking games, a situation where she has been given a drink in which the alcohol has been disguised as punch” (Bohmer, Parrot 20). Popular culture depicts college as a place for free booze and sexual conquests, as sensationalized by popular movies like “Project X” and “22nd Jump Street.” Consequently, the public medium portray partying and binge-drinking as the typical college and teenage social norm. Oftentimes, college is the first opportunity for young individuals to live away from home. For many, college is a time of sexual freedom, exploration, and experimentation. According to Julie E. Samuels from
Every part of our research statement has been defined now, and the purpose of defining each aspect ourselves was to not be over or under inclusive. The reason we have narrowed down the definition of sexual assault to just forced intercourse is because among a crime that is not often reported, rape is the aspect that females will most commonly report to authorities. We chose seventeen as our minimum age because it is the legal age of consent in Texas, and any female older than seventeen is also at risk of being raped on a campus. It may seem over inclusive to add every age over seventeen, but all sexual assault crimes, regardless of age, are reported in the Clery Act. Just studying females is important because they are the most likely population to be victims of sexual assault. Finally, public campuses are the only Universities we are using because data is more readily available and representative of actual crime rates.
On August 7, 1997, Nathan Brown was convicted for attempted aggravated rape. On August 7, 1997, in Louisiana the attempted rape of a women occurred in front of Nathan Browns building. A women that was walking to her apartment was attacked by a man that had jumped out from behind her and threw her on to the ground. The attacker went on top of her, “ bit the victim’s neck, ripped her dress open and took her purse” (Nathan Brown. (n.d.). Retrieved November 2, 2015.).One of the attackers shoes came off while he was attacking her. The victim was able to fight the attacker back by using the high heels she was already carrying as a weapon. The attacker ran, then got on a bike and rode away. The police came to the crime scene shortly after the crime had occurred because near by neighbors called the police after they heard a women screaming.
A 17 year old girl went to a job interview in the back of the accused’s (Ewanchuk) van. After the interview concluded, Ewanchuk invited her into his trailer to see some of his work. The complainant complied, and purposely left the trailer door open-- though Ewanchuk closed the door soon after, in a way where the complainant had thought he had locked it. The accused began a string of sexual touches, each more intimate than the previous, which the complainant said “no” to, only to have Ewanchuk continue with another advance shortly thereafter. Any compliance the complainant offered was due to fear of the altercation turning violent. Ewanchuk paid her $100 before she left and told her not to tell anyone about it.
In one case, the University of Minnesota basketball team was playing a game in Madison, Wisconsin. A woman met one of the players and agreed to go back to his hotel. Once there they were joined by two of his teammates. They imprisoned her for three hours and repeatedly raped her. The players were found not guilty. In Glen Ridge, New Jersey, four high-school athletes, all of them former football teammates, have been charged with wielding a small baseball bat and a broomstick to rape a 17-year old slightly retarded girl (Ekanzi).
The Steubenville and Glen Ridge rape cases are two very similar cases. The perpetrators were football student athletes with promising futures and the victims were teenage girls whose capability of consenting to the acts done to them were questioned. One of the victims was seventeen-years old and had an intelligence quotient of 64 and the reading comprehension of a second grader. The second victim was sixteen-years old and was publicly assaulted while she was completely intoxicated. This paper will discuss each victim and their perpetrators, as well as the trial sentencing and prosecution. It will explore the different reactions from the community and the debate over the victim’s responsibility leading towards the incident. In both rape
The incidents of sexual assault include one in which Brown allegedly arrange to meet with an underage girl that was coerced into revealing herself and another incident in which Brown allegedly sexually penetrated a girl with a “foreign object.” genitalia
According to Nancy Chi Cantalupo, writer in the University Chicago Law Journal, “twenty to twenty-five percent of college women are victims of attempted or completed nonconsensual sex” (Burying Our Heads 207). In October 2014, an eighteen-year-old freshman at Old Dominion University was sexually assaulted. She reported her case to the ODU Police Department where she was treated as a suspect rather than a victim (Jane). The university police department denied this young woman of many things such as a medical examination right away, food, drinks and even did not allow her to use the bathroom (Jane). These factors caused her to suffer multiple injuries mentally, emotionally, and physically (Jane). Many cases of on campus sexual assault has come
On June 23rd, 2013, students from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, met up at a local bar called The Tin Roof. The man, a promising football starter from the school named Brandon Vandenburg, and the victim, a woman who knew him from school, were drinking copious amounts of alcohol. Vandenburg had given her three to four drinks that night, and after the fourth one, a blue drink called a “California Long Island Iced Tea”, she remembered nothing. The next morning, she woke up in his dorm room with no recollection of the night before. Video evidence from the accused and their friends indicated that the four men had sexually assaulted the victim, using both a weapon (a water bottle) and their hands.
The case of Mapp v. Ohio began in Cleveland, Ohio. Police officers in Cleveland forced themselves into Dollree Mapp's house. Mapp demanded to see a search warrant, but the piece of paper they rudely waved in her face was not a proper search warrant. The Police believed that Mapp was helping a suspected bomber hide in her house. No one was found in Mapp’s home, but the police did find a trunk of vulgar pictures in Mapp’s basement. Mapp was arrested on the scene of the crime for the possession of the photos, and breaking the Ohio state law that prohibited the possession of lewd, lascivious, or obscene material. She was proven guilty and charged one to seven years in prison. Mapp claimed that her rights were violated when they searched her house.
When it comes to choosing a political party, you want to make sure the party stands for the things you strongly stand for. You also want to do your own research to read the party's platform to see whether their ideas come to be of any use to yourself. According to Donald Share, the Popular Party of Spain is currently governed by Mariano Rajoy; The party was founded in the 1970’s by Manuel Fraga Iribarne who was working under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco (Share). The Popular Party is “Spain’s currently ruling party is a center-right catch-all party” (Terry). Some might ask what does it mean to be "center-right" according to Hürriyet Daily News; "In order not to lose the sympathy of moderate conservatives, they declare that they have
How do the different classes (upper, middle, working) throw birthday party? Before I talk about how they throw their birthday party. Im going to explain my experiment is going to talk about how they react differently in their party. And when I say classes I mean rich people who their parents give them money, and middle class who are barely getting through, and working class are who went to college, but most likely she/ he dropped out of school/ collage to start work for he/ she family. The hook that I pick is social cuing. What is social cuing? In Opening Skinner 's Box: John Darley and Bibb Latane experiment of the smoke coming from the vent is a hook is social cues." They, decieded, based on the social cues of the confederates, rather than the material evidence, to interpret the emergency use harmless failure of the air-conducting system, and under the spell of that story, they just k=hacked away until many minutes had passed, and there was a fine white film in there and , in their lips, and the examiner came in and called it off"(104). So social cuing mean is like doing/imitation and like what professor Clark says" monkey see monkey do. So if you do it the other will do the same thing too. In you 're head, maybe you 're going to say why I pick class? So I 'm going to explain it, I pick class because to see how they react difficulty to upper class to working class or working class to middle class. My experiment starts off with separate my subjects. Their going to be
In 2009, an innocent female student, a 16-year-old then, was brutally gang raped by a group of young men in a courtyard of the school. After leaving the homecoming dance, a male classmate unmannerly invited the female student to join a group of young men for a drink. Unhesitatingly, she refused the offer; as a result of that, they dragged her on the ground, beat her excessively, burned her with cigarettes, and repeatedly gang raped her for two hours, at times with a foreign object. In other words, they dehumanized her. Moreover, supposedly, as many as twenty witnesses were aware of this crucial act, but they all denied informing the police. Apparently, no one wanted to get involved. Furthermore, the young female student from Richmond High School
Last month I was at Penn State College for a work training. I have never been up there before and as I was taking in the scenery I was very aware of my surroundings. Especially as a young woman in an unknown area. I was calm but alert. One of the days that I was at the training was 4/20, which also happened to be a Thursday. Most of you may know that 4/20 is national pot day and Thursdays in college areas are known as “Thirsty Thursdays” where students go out and drink. As my co-worker and I went out for dinner that evening, I could not help but watch as there were college girls barely dressed and already drunk lined up for clubs and young men stood beside them in suits. I conversed with my co-worker, wondering how many unreported sexual assaults must take place at Penn State and as well as what the school’s policy might be on sexual assault. Authors
As I was finding my way through the sea of people at an outrageous summer college party. I suddenly saw Hunter, my twin sister 's boyfriend, walking away from me. I was making my way towards him; pushing people out of my way. I was on a mission to get my sister so we can get home before my parents did.