High School football team's "Rape Crew" exposed by Anonymous.

[Koul]

A shame that the blog in the original post has been taken down, kind of wanted to see the video everyone was talking about.

here ya go. It's pretty fucking disgusting. I hope something happens to the boy in the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...ctr=1363651753

[Drex]

I think we're underestimating how large of a penalty being a registered sex offender is.

Like never being able to settle somewhere without worrying about someone putting up a swingset and forcing you to move

[Moss]

here ya go. It's pretty fucking disgusting. I hope something happens to the boy in the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...ctr=1363651753

That's Pizzoferrato, who received immunity for testifying. Too bad he wasn't charged with anything.

[myreality]

I don't know if this is standard, but minors get lower sentences than adults. So I wouldn't say this was the judge's error, just him following the law.

I have seen 14 year old kids registered as adults for mere robberies, these 16 and 17 year olds with ample evidence (one being a long video of the group making fun of the girl with their acts) should have been tried as adults. Their is no excuse for their lenient sentencing.

Also being charged as a sex offender is a big deal and will inhibit you your entire life but they should have been charged fully as adults with all consequences.

[archibaldcrane]

1 year in prison is a "recommended sentence" for 3rd degree rape in Ohio - see my earlier quote about 1-5 years. Getting another year for distributing the photographs, considering they are tried as juveniles, feels about right compared to the adult sentencing guidelines.

There's no weapon here, no serious physical injury, no drugging of the victim - nothing to step it up to a 2nd or 1st degree rape.

[Xno Kappa]

Like never being able to settle somewhere without worrying about someone putting up a swingset and forcing you to move

Came here to post just that. Not that I agree with the consequences, but they're already fucked for life.

[Cail]

Meanwhile, two 16-year-old girls were arrested Monday on charges of making threats against the victim via Twitter, Jefferson County Sheriff Fred Abdalla told CNN. Both are Steubenville residents; one posted a threat to beat the victim, and another threatened to kill her, Abdalla said.

The two were being held in juvenile detention Monday afternoon and are scheduled to appear before a judge Tuesday morning, said Fred Abdalla Jr., the chief probation officer for Jefferson County Juvenile Court and the son of the sheriff. Prosecutors had not yet filed charges against the girls, he said.

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[archibaldcrane]

Or a city intentionally building a tiny "park" so that all sex offenders have to move out of the area.

[Moss]

the fuck...

[Ksandra]

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gonna take a wild guess those girls were the convicts' gfs

[bechyni]

here ya go. It's pretty fucking disgusting. I hope something happens to the boy in the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...ctr=1363651753

Wow what a fucking stupid child. I thought for a minute the people in the background were being serious telling him to stop, but then they started laughing at everything, complete dumbasses all of the.

[myreality]

1 year in prison is a "recommended sentence" for 3rd degree rape in Ohio - see my earlier quote about 1-5 years. Getting another year for distributing the photographs, considering they are tried as juveniles, feels about right compared to the adult sentencing guidelines.

There's no weapon here, no serious physical injury, no drugging of the victim - nothing to step it up to a 2nd or 1st degree rape.

There was a possibility of the victim's drink being spiked than dragged to where she was raped. Not sure on that though.

[Correction]

gonna take a wild guess those girls were the convicts' gfs

Chris Brown fans I bet.

[AidenCarby]

So, 15 minutes of some faggot saying not funny shit.

[Amiricle]

http://m.gawker.com/5991175/this-two...trial-coverage

[Waraji]

http://m.gawker.com/5991175/this-two...trial-coverage

[Cail]

Take 2, about 40 minutes from me:

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/gBz...ton-arrest.jpg
On paper, it sounds awfully familiar.

Two high school football players are accused of sexual assault. Their fellow students take to social media to defend the pair, taunting and blaming the victims. An athletic director brushes aside the allegations—along with separate hazing, felony robbery and assault charges against the school's athletes—as "not any different than any other community." Administrators are reluctant to immediately address the accusations, making it appear like a cover-up. The online hacktivist group Anonymous pledges to expose the truth and publicly shame those who engage in cyberbullying and victim-blaming.

Except this isn't Steubenville, Ohio—it's Torrington, Conn., where two 18-year-olds, Edgar Gonzalez and Joan Toribio, stand accused of second-degree sexual assault of two 13-year-old girls. The investigation has led to the arrest of a 17-year-old male for an alleged assault on one of the 13-year-olds last fall, police say, and more arrests could be forthcoming.

Gonzalez and Toribio, who live in the same Torrington apartment complex, were arrested last month on sexual assault charges stemming from separate incidents that occurred around the same time period in February, a Torrington police official said on Wednesday. Both pleaded not guilty.

The investigation is ongoing, Torrington police say.

"It's very involved," Torrington Police Lt. Mike Emanuel told reporters on Wednesday. "It's very difficult to follow, even for us."

The victims and their alleged attackers knew one another, Emanuel said. "The reason that this is a sexual assault is that there is more than a three-year age difference. That's what we have to keep in mind."

When asked if the sexual contact was consensual, Emanuel said, "Statutorily it is not consensual."

Gonzalez, who had already been facing felony robbery charges related to a March 2012 incident, is being held at a New Haven correction center. Toribio, who was charged with two counts of second-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor, was released on $100,000 bond and is being electronically monitored.

Sealed by a Litchfield district court, the case had been kept under wraps by school officials until this week, when the Register Citizen reported that "dozens of athletes and Torrington High School students, male and female," taunted the alleged victims on Twitter:

Students flocked to social media in the days surrounding the arrests of Gonzalez and Toribio, with several students offering support for the two football players and others blaming the victims for causing the incident. References included calling a 13-year-old who hangs around with 18-year-olds a “whore,” and claiming the victims “destroyed” the lives of the players.

"Even if it was all his fault," Mary J. Ramirez, whose Twitter handle is @LoryyRamirez, wrote, "what was a 13 year old girl doing hanging around 18 year old guys[?]"

“I wanna know why there’s no punishment for young hoes,” Twitter user @asmedick wrote, according to the paper.

Torrington school officials said on Wednesday that they would investigate the apparent cyberbullying.

"We’re doing everything we can to provide the safety [the alleged victims] need in schools,” Kenneth Traub, Torrington's Board of Education chairman, said on Wednesday.

As was the case in Steubenville, Anonymous has gotten involved, launching "Operation Raider," a reference to the nickname of the Torrington High School football team.

“#OpRaider is the new #OpRollRedRoll," the group tweeted late Wednesday. "Torrington better take note of #Steubenville because they’re about to go on blast. #endrapeculture"

High school football takes on elevated importance in Torrington, a small town in northwest Connecticut about 35 miles north of Newtown. "Like Steubenville," Doug Barry wrote on Jezebel.com, the case in Connecticut "hinges in large part on the seemingly disproportionate influence a school’s football program has on the surrounding community."

Despite the felony robbery charges, Gonzalez was allowed to play football last fall.

“I reeled the kid in after that, and he walked the line," Dan Dunaj, Torrington's former head football coach, told the Register Citizen. "As a coach I was doing something right.”

Dunaj resigned in December amid an ongoing investigation into a hazing incident involving four football players last fall. The players received five-day suspensions early in the season.

"If you think there's some wild band of athletes that are wandering around, then I think you're mistaken," Torrington High School Athletic Director Mike McKenna told the Register Citizen. "If you look at crime statistics, these things happen everywhere and we're not any different than any other community."

In an editorial published on Thursday, the Register Citizen blasted "the posture of denial and defensiveness" Torrington school officials have taken in response to the case:

The first step in recovering from this is admitting you have a problem. And after reading the social media accounts of average, "good" students at Torrington High School, it's clear that Torrington students need an urgent education about blaming the victim, bullying and harassment, what "consent" means, why statutory rape is rape, period, and where football should stand in relation to their education and the rest of life. Let's hope that starts today.

[kuronosan]

Yes. Damn these good students for not having the presence of mind to make better decisions than a pre-pubescent child can. If only those little jezebels hadn't pretended to be older they never would have had to be raped.

[AidenCarby]

Wow, not too far from here.

[BaneTheBrawler]

man, i wish i were healthy. i'd apply for that mission to Mars.