(Disclaimer: This is a SATIRICAL news article clipping that I wrote. As a survivor of sexual violence, my contempt is directed at victim-blamers and rape apologists, NOT the person who is raped. This is an issue that I feel very strongly about.)
Two days ago, Steubenville High School football player Trent Mays expressed regrets for the consequences of his actions after hearing his guilty verdict read aloud in court:
”I would truly like to apologize to [the girl], her family, my family, and community. Those pictures shouldn’t have been sent around, let alone taken.”
The crime of photography beyond a reasonable doubt in Ohio is punishable by imprisonment for up to two years in juvenile jail, five tops if the camera is stolen. Seeing as this was the only crime that the boys were on trial for, and nothing else, the sentence is expected to remain this way.
However, the outcome of the trial, as well as the content of the plaintive (which almost makes things about the plaintiff, but not quite) apology uttered by the defendant through gut-wrenching sobs, elicited outrage from hundreds, possibly thousands of Americans, who thought that Mays and Richmond were guilty of something else entirely.
Said one anonymous forum user, "Those pictures should NOT have been taken. It should not have happened. It defied the laws of physics, as it is impossible to take pictures while one's fingers are inserted inside a vagina. And yet it happened. Which is why he should ALSO be convicted of...lying."
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