(Update at the bottom) A reader of Dispatches from the Underclass who grew up in Steubenville, Ohio, has alerted me to a protest planned for Saturday, March 30, in support of Steubenville High School head football coach, Reno Saccoccia. “This man does alot for kids, you cannot blame a coach for the actions of a few kids!”, […]
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The worst is not yet behind the young woman who was raped by two Steubenville High football players in the football obsessed town of Steubenville, Ohio. CBS News reports that just one day after her rapists, Trent Mays and Ma’Lik Richmond, were convicted, two teens have been arrested for threatening to kill her. Surprisingly, her female […]
The repeated rape of an unconscious 16-year-old girl in the small football-loving town of Steubenville, Ohio, in August is making national headlines thanks to the diligence of Alexandria Goddard, a crime blogger, and the internet vigilanteism of the hacktivist group Anonymous. Yet, in spite of all the new attention focused on this horrific act, the media is […]
In my last post, I forgot to include, as an example of rape culture, a gang rape that took place in Steubenville, an Ohio football town where at an August end-of-summer party, members of the Steubenville football team raped a passed out 16-year-old girl, who was from a nearby West Virginia town, and then dragged her […]
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