On the day of the verdict, a student disc jockey at the
University Toledo expressed a sentiment apparently still shared by many in
Steubenville, when he tweeted:
"disgusting outcome on #steubenville trial. remember kids, if you're drunk at a party, and embarrassed later, just say you got raped!" He later apologized and suspended his show.
The university released a statement saying that the DJ's comments were "revolting and directly contradict the values of the University of Toledo. [He] is learning a difficult lesson about the power of social media and the consequences that come with the words we choose."
That lesson was reinforced the next day when Ohio Attorney
General Mike DeWine announced the arrest of two Steubenville juvenile girls, 15
and 16, for making online threats against Jane Doe, stating: "Let
me be clear. Threatening a teenage rape victim will not be tolerated. If
anyone makes a threat verbally or via the internet, we will take it seriously,
we will find you, and we will arrest you."
One of the girls, a relative of Ma'lik Richmond, posted on Twitter: "You ripped my family apart, you made my cousin cry, so when I see you b*tch it's gone be a homicide."
Both girls are being held until their March 27 hearing, in the same juvenile detention facility that held Mays and Richmond last summer.
The Point of Any Cover-up Is to Keep Truth From Coming Out
While some have claimed that Steubenville officials engaged in a cover-up from the time they first learned of the August 11 assaults, there is little evidence to support the claim. The investigation may have been slow to start, but that was largely the result of the events being largely unknown to authorities, and even moreso, unclear to Jane Doe and her family, who needed two days to piece together enough evidence to file a complaint with the police.
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