Jezebel has a tag for the whole case. I couldn't watch the video, it was too upsetting. I was happy to see that my alma mater cancelled that kid's football scholarship.
I find the whole thing to be very "typical" of small towns in Ohio, down to the sheriff's comments. When I was an undergrad at OSU, my best friend was at Miami University (in Miami, Ohio), and there was a case where a whole frat had abducted a pizza girl and gang-raped her a year or two before she'd started there (somewhere between 1982-84). They all got off with a slap on the wrist "so that their futures won't be ruined" and then they all made t-shirts that boasted about being the pizza girl raping fraternity while the girl was told she couldn't discuss the case with anyone. The sheriff in that town said there was no such thing as rape and he used to refuse to investigate rape cases.
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Date: 2013-01-07 09:28 pm (UTC)I find the whole thing to be very "typical" of small towns in Ohio, down to the sheriff's comments. When I was an undergrad at OSU, my best friend was at Miami University (in Miami, Ohio), and there was a case where a whole frat had abducted a pizza girl and gang-raped her a year or two before she'd started there (somewhere between 1982-84). They all got off with a slap on the wrist "so that their futures won't be ruined" and then they all made t-shirts that boasted about being the pizza girl raping fraternity while the girl was told she couldn't discuss the case with anyone. The sheriff in that town said there was no such thing as rape and he used to refuse to investigate rape cases.