Spread All Day;1255672 wrote:According to the people of the "ville" the girl is lying and their football team is all that matters. What a shame. We're talking about a life here that'll never be the same.
I've yet to meet these people you speak of.
It is a shame what happened. It's also a shame that shortly after it happened, those outside Steubenville have done nothing but denigrate the city, fans, and the team for something a few screw-ups did at a party. What happened is unspeakable. But, I won't sit here and let me be cast into it with them.
And comparing it to Penn State is a joke. JoePa/Sandusky/PSU took 13 _YEARS_ for it to come out because of an active cover up that was centered around a key figure in the higher-ups in the athletic department doing unspeakable things, PERPETUALLY all the while shielded from justice.
Meanwhile, this happened AUGUST 14th, and it is less than two weeks later. Two are in custody, more may be. We've yet to have the evidence play out in a trial. Hopefully, assuming their participation in the act is true, they'll be punished to the fullest extent the law allows. If others are implicated and proven guilty, I'd feel the same way.
But to get up in arms about something that happened less than two weeks ago, that resulted in arrests about a week later, is ridiculously impatient.