Steubenville Case

After reading about the case in class, I kind of forgot about the whole thing until the case went into trial this past week. This past weekend the two boys, Trent Mays and Ma'lik Richmond were found guilty of the rape of a 16 year-old girl. They were both sentenced to a year in a youth correctional institute and will have to both register as sex offenders, while Mays is going to serve another year after that for the distribution of nude photos. I think that this is a wake up call for Steubenville because everyone in the town thinks that these boys are perfect boys because they play for the football team. The whole town lives and breathes for the football team thinking that they can do nothing wrong. In the article I read about the case, it said that there were people that had walked in on the two boys with the girl but he did nothing about it. In the article it said that the reason he was not focused on the situation is because he was so worried about his friend not drinking and driving. I think that all around the country people do a really good job of letting kids know how terrible drinking and driving is. I think that kids are not prepared to handle any sort of situation if they experience rape. Hopefully that is something that many kids have to experience, but there needs to be some sort of way to tell kids what to do if they are in that situation. If this kid knew what to do when he was walking past, maybe the girl could have been helped earlier and been safer. I think that kids also need to have more knowledge on the situations that they're put in. No one thought to get this girl home safely, or call anyone she knew to come and take her home safely. I think kids are too immature to think about any of this which is the very sad part because if a minor is very drunk and non-responsive everyone just jokes about it and doesn't take into consideration that they need to be home safely with people that care about them. These issues need to be taken care of nation-wide and more kids need to be informed about the different scenarios they could possibly be in so they know how to handle themselves.