When both young men were found guilty in juvenile court, CNN Breaking News anchor Candy Crowley conducted a baffling interview with their in-court reporter who described her experience watching the verdict as, “Incredibly difficult, even for an outsider like me, to watch what happened as these two young men that had such promising futures, star football players, very good students, literally watched as they believed their lives fell apart…when that sentence came down, collapsed in the arms of his attorney…He said to him, 'My life is over. But this particular incident left a social media trail so callously celebratory of rape-culture as to dishearten anyone with a shred of empathy. The alleged sexual assault of a drunken, incoherent sixteen-year-old high school student by at least two football players in Steubenville is, on its own, an incredibly upsetting news story. The case, brought to public attention through a New York Times story and the ensuing hack/dox led by Anonymous sub-group Knightsec, captured the attention of the world with its frighteningly horrible allegations backed up by frighteningly horrible social media proof. The Steubenville, Ohio, rape trial concluded yesterday.
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