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Welcome To The Town Where Two Teen Football Stars Thought They Could Get Away With Rape

Mar 18, 2013, 04:55 IST

Steubenville, Ohio may finally slink out of the spotlight, after two of the town's high school football players were convicted of raping a 16-year-old with their fingers.

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Trenton Mays, 17, and Ma’lik Richmond, 16, were adjudicated delinquent and could be in a juvenile detention facility until they turn 21.

The rape case drew national attention after the accused and their friends joked about the incident and showed a galling sense of impunity over social media. In January Steubenville was forced to launch a website to combat the perception that "the football team runs this city."

At one point Mays told a friend that coach Reno Saccoccia would make the charges go away: "I got Reno ... He took care of it and s--- ain't gonna happen, even if they did take it to court."

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That's the kind of mindset that develops in a depressed Appalachian town where Big Red Football is the hottest thing around.

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