A Fine Place …item 1 a/b.. Steubenville superintendent, two coaches and elementary school teacher ALL charged with cover-up by grand jury (25 November 2013) – Thank you, Anonymous. — They are due in court Dec. 6. …
A Fine Place …item 1 a/b.. Steubenville superintendent, two coaches and elementary school teacher ALL charged with cover-up by grand jury (25 November 2013) – Thank you, Anonymous. — They are due in court Dec. 6. …
Image by marsmet53
Steubenville High School superintendent Michael McVey was hit with felony charges for tampering with evidence and obstruction of justice in the case of the sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl by two high school footballers after an alcohol-fueled party in August 2012.
.
In 2007 the field at Big Red’s Harding Stadium, which feature a huge rearing horse that breaths fire whenever the home team scores or comes on the field and is known locally as Death Valley, was named Reno Field in Saccoccia’s honor
.
……..*****All images are copyrighted by their respective authors ……..
.
… marsmet491 photo … the world … FSU News – Coverage of rape evidence a problem — Poppy Harlow waxed on (6:46 PM, Mar. 20, 2013) …item 3a / 3b.. Anonymous 2013 Steubenville Rape Case — What if this was your daughter? (Published on Jan 6, 2013) …
www.flickr.com/photos/71902107@N03/8576126749/in/photostream
.
… marsmet491 photostream … Page 1
www.flickr.com/photos/71902107@N03/?details=1
.
.
… marsmet523 photo … STEUBENVILLE – "I made it as a joke," Pizzoferrato testified. " (MARCH 17, 2013) …item 2.. Steubenville rape case: — victim had been urinated upon (SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 2013, 5:29 PM) ..
www.flickr.com/photos/64540855@N07/8568034822/in/photostream
.
… marsmet523 photostream … Page 1
www.flickr.com/photos/64540855@N07/?details=1
.
.
… marsmet532 photo … Guerrilla Marketing … Letters to the editor (Apr 1, 2013) …item 2.. Former Shelter director Mel Eby felt forced into retirment — Eby, however, feels like a castaway. (Mar 30, 2013) …
www.flickr.com/photos/94585506@N05/8618706415/in/photostream
.
.
… marsmet532 photostream … Page 1
www.flickr.com/photos/94585506@N05/?details=1
.
.
… marsmet473a photo … Decatur, Illinois .. Beloved psychology professor outed as killer who murdered his family as a teen — ‘I feel comfortable with him,’ Grader said. (3 August 2013)
www.flickr.com/photos/104178037@N08/10082196624/
.
… marsmet473a photostream … Page 3
www.flickr.com/photos/104178037@N08/page3/?details=1
.
.
… marsmet525 photo … Ms. Magazine (November 1977) … Contrarian Views on Sex Harassment: Dangerous, Not Funny (November 15, 2011) …
www.flickr.com/photos/69858568@N07/6650068641/in/photostream
.
… marsmet525 photostream … Page 1
www.flickr.com/photos/69858568@N07/?details=1
.
.
… marsmet553 photo … Privacy invasion … Don’t want mug shot online? Then pay up, sites say (Updated Sunday, June 23, 2013) …item 2.. THE PRISONER.. Snippets and titbits …
www.flickr.com/photos/95252012@N03/8681949207/in/photostream
.
… marsmet553 photostream … Page 2
www.flickr.com/photos/95252012@N03/page2/?details=1
.
.
… marsmet524 photo … "just fine" (August 14, 2012) … Steubenville teens describing how they did NOTHING — Silence: (23 March 2013) …item 2..FSU News — Facebook puts the ‘stupid’ in Steubenville (Mar. 27, 2013) …
www.flickr.com/photos/69462973@N08/8586079143/in/photostream
.
… marsmet524 photostream … Page 1
www.flickr.com/photos/69462973@N08/?details=1
.
.
… marsmet551 photo … Big Red Football … Who’s in Trouble Next in Steubenville? — The grand jury will convene around April 15. (MAR 18, 2013) …item 2.. Florida State groups bring attention to rape culture (Apr. 10, 2013) …
www.flickr.com/photos/67538764@N04/8593142199/in/photostream
But according to testimony from last week’s trial, Mays had sent a text message to one his friends, in which he confirmed that he had told Saccoccia about the incident. Mays, the 17-year-old Big Red quarterback, sent this text:
"I got Reno. He took care of it and sh– ain’t gonna happen, even if they did take it to court."
.
… marsmet551 photostream … Page 1
www.flickr.com/photos/67538764@N04/?details=1
.
.
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
.
…..item 1a)…. Steubenville superintendent, two coaches and elementary school teacher ALL charged with cover-up by grand jury investigating notorious rape …
… Mail Online – Daily Mail … www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ …
… Steubenville High School superintendent Michael McVey charged with
tampering with evidence and obstruction of justice
… Three others charged with failure to report child abuse and making false statements
… A judge convicted two Steubenville High School football players of raping the girl in August 2012
… The grand jury previously charged the Steubenville schools’ information technology director with tampering with evidence, obstructing justice, obstructing official business and perjury
… DeWine announced today that the Grand Jury was finished and therefore Coach Saccoccia will not face charges
By JAMES NYE
PUBLISHED: 13:37 EST, 25 November 2013 | UPDATED: 14:31 EST, 25 November 2013
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2513336/Steubenville-Hig…
The Ohio grand jury which is investigating whether there was a cover-up in the notorious Steubenville rape case today announced the indictment of four more people – including the school superintendent and an assistant football coach.
Steubenville High School superintendent Michael McVey was hit with felony charges for tampering with evidence and obstruction of justice in the case of the sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl by two high school footballers after an alcohol-fueled party in August 2012.
.
……………….
img code photo … Charged: Steubenville High School Superintenent Michael McVey
i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/11/25/article-2513336-19A39B…
Charged: Steubenville High School Superintenent Michael McVey has been charged with the tampering of evidence and obstruction of justice following the rape of a 16-year-old in 2012
WPXI
……………….
.
In addition to McVey, assistant coach, Matthew Belardine was charged with allowing underage drinking, obstructing official business and making a false statement.
Two other school employees, Wrestling coach Seth Fluharty and elementary school principal Lynette Gorman, were charged with failure to report child abuse.
‘People made bad choices and the grand jury said there are repercussions,’ Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said in announcing the indictments today at a news conference.
The high school’s beloved head Coach Saccoccia , who was accused of telling football players that he would protect the two rapists from any repercussions, is not facing any consequences from the grand jury.
Scroll down for video
.
……………….
img code photo … Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine
i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/11/25/article-2513336-19A37E…
Charges: Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announces indictments against four additional people in relation to the 2012 rape of a high school student, on Monday, Nov. 25, 2013 in Steubenville
AP
……………….
.
The charges have been handed down by the grand jury convened in April to investigate the circumstances surrounding the rape of the 16-year-old girl by Trent Mays, 17 and Ma’Lik Richmond, 16, who were found guilty in March and sentenced to at least a year in juvenile prison.
The grand jury panel has met 18 times, heard from 123 witnesses and spent seven months working on the case.
More…
… Scandal grips one of San Francisco’s oldest Catholic shrines as fired employee claims she was spanked and forced into sex INSIDE the church
… Woman, 24, who crashed car and killed her friend after he pulled on her bikini top string as she drove is cleared
… ‘I feel like I’ve been raped and beaten’: Mom who lost custody of her children because she had an abortion speaks about being branded an ‘unfit parent’
The grand jury had investigated whether adults like coaches or school administrators knew of the rape allegation but failed to report it as required by state law.
Last month, the grand jury also issued indictments against William Rhinaman, the Steubenville schools’ technology director, who is accused of tampering with evidence and obstructing justice, and his daughter, who was indicted for theft unrelated to the rape case.
.
………………….
img code photo … Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine
i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/11/25/article-2513336-19A393…
Cover-up: Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine answers questions at a news conference where he announced indictments against four additional people in relation to the 2012 rape of a high school student in Steubenville, Ohio
AP
………………….
.
………………….
img code photo … Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine
i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/11/25/article-2513336-19A396…
Cover-up: Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine answers questions at a news conference where he announced indictments against four additional people in relation to the 2012 rape of a high school student in Steubenville, Ohio
AP
………………….
.
………………….
Four more school employees charged in Steubenville rape case
video: 1:34 minutes
Mike Dewine
Ohio Attorney General
………………….
.
‘Some may ask why others were not indicted,’ DeWine said, as he explained that a grand jury needs probable cause to charge someone.
‘It is simply not sufficient that person’s behavior was reprehensible, disgusting, mean-spirited or just plain stupid,’ he said.
‘Barring any new evidence, I believe that the grand jury’s work is done.’
DeWine said that small city of Steubenville had been traumatized by the actions of a few.
‘It’s time to let Steubenville move on,’ he said.
Mr DeWine had made clear his intention to root out all guilty parties in the ongoing investigation into the case that shocked America when it came to trial in March.
Then promising high school football stars Trent Mays, 17 and Ma’lik Richmond, 16, were found guilty of raping a 16-year-old in a series of back to back house parties.
Images of the girl, catastrophically drunk, naked, abused and humiliated were posted online.
Friends of the rapist, and their victim, tweeted vile comments and exchanged pictures of the girl, strung up between her attackers by her wrists and ankles.
.
………………….
img code photo … Trial by social media
i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/03/16/article-2294492-189C48…
Trial by social media: The messages over Twitter, Instagram and text that were exchanged on the night of the rape and the following day were central to the case – and to the outrage it has caused nationwide
Photo credit: none listed
………………….
.
Mays was sentenced to a minimum of one year in juvenile detention for the two counts on which he was convicted: raped and possession and distribution of pornographic material involving a minor.
Richmond was charged only on the count of rape and sentenced to a minimum of one year. Both face a maximum of detention until the age of 21 and have to register as sex offenders thereafter – a punishment against which Richmond has since appealed.
The crime continues to divide the blue-collar town on the Virginia River.
With the victim too drunk to remember the crime texts and pictures taken on the night saw the attackers convict themselves with their own words.
.
…………………
img code photo … Guilty verdict
i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/03/18/article-2295384-18BCD2…
Guilty verdict: Ma’lik Richmond (pictured right) reacts after learning the verdict in his trial at the juvenile court in Steubenville, Ohio, March 17
Reuters
…………………
.
…………………
img code photo … Together
i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/03/17/article-2294748-18BCE0…
Trent Mays, 17, left, gets a hug from his father after Trent and co-defendant Ma’lik Richmond, 16, were found delinquent on rape and other charges in March
AP
…………………
.
The first the victim knew of her fate was when pictures of her lying naked on a basement floor were posted online.
The conduct of Head Coach Reno Saccoccia has come under particular scrutiny and led to online petitions demanding the High School official be fired.
Saccoccia refused to even bench his stars at first, telling the principal and school superintendent that the players did not think they had done anything wrong and therefore he had no reason to suspend them from the team.
Saccoccia has coached two generations of Big Red players and won three state titles and 85 per cent of his games.
.
……………………
img code photo … Cover Up
i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/10/07/article-0-1897CF2B0000…
Cover Up: Angry protesters demonstrate in Steubenville demanding all who played a part in the rape and its aftermath be held accountable
Reuters
……………………
.
He was made Head Coach in 1984 and in 1991 Big Red became the fastest team to win 100 games in Ohio’s history.
In 2007 the field at Big Red’s Harding Stadium, which feature a huge rearing horse that breaths fire whenever the home team scores or comes on the field and is known locally as Death Valley, was named Reno Field in Saccoccia’s honor
MailOnline was the first to report that the 63-year-old coach could face charges and that investigators planned to interview him and all 19 of the High School’s coaching staff.
However, DeWine announced today that the Grand Jury was finished and therefore Saccoccia will not face charges
.
Share or comment on this article
.
.
… Comments
Share what you think
.
— Kay, Wiltshire, 2 hours ago
It’s reprehensible when adults participate in a cover up rather than protecting a child, but even more shocking when those adults are the people paid to protect them.
.
— Oreo, Buffalo, United States, 2 hours ago
Thank you, Anonymous. Without you this might have been swept under the rug. Thank you, Mr. Dewine for your unflagging determination to see justice done. This will and should bring a chill to school districts that we’re not in Kansas anymore with a "boys will be boys" mentality
.
— G-Girl, NY_ NY, 2 hours ago
I grew up near there. Mr. McVey is Superintendent of Steubenville City School District, not high school superintendent. This once-thriving steel mill town is like so many others along the Ohio River, now filled with hopelessness and crime. Sports, particularly football, has been their salvation. I offer no excuse for the poor judgment of many, but pray they can put it behind them and somehow move on. Good people still live there.
.
— Tracy, Massachusetts, United States, 3 hours ago
Glad to hear those despicable people will be facing justice.
.
.
.
.
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
.
…..item 1b)…. Steubenville case: Four more charged, including superintendent, volunteer coach …
… U.S. News on NBCNews.com … usnews.nbcnews.com/ …
.
…………………
NBC News … NBCNews.com
video: 1:47 minutes
Mike DeWine
…………………
.
"How do you hold kids accountable, if you don’t hold the adults accountable," asks Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine during a press conference to discusses new developments in the special grand jury investigation into the Steubenville teen rape case.
By Tracy Connor, Staff Writer, NBC News
This story was originally published on Mon Nov 25, 2013 11:32 AM EST
usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/11/25/21609473-steubenville…
Four school employees, including the superintendent and an assistant football coach, were indicted by a grand jury investigating a possible coverup in the Steubenville rape case.
The charges were announced Monday by the state’s top prosecutor, who decried "blurred, stretched and distorted boundaries of right and wrong" by students and grown-ups alike.
"How do you hold kids accountable if you don’t hold the adults accountable?" Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine asked.
Superintendent Michael McVey, 50, was charged with tampering with evidence and obstruction of justice in the aftermath of the incident at the center of the case: the sexual assault of a drunken 16-year-old girl by two high school football players after a booze-fueled party in August 2012.
An assistant coach, Matthew Belardine, 26, was charged with allowing underage drinking, obstructing official business and making a false statement.
Two school employees, strength coach Seth Fluharty, 26, and elementary-school principal Lynnett Gorman, 40, were charged with failure to report child abuse.
The indictment did not contain details of what each person allegedly did.
“What you have is people who were not worried about a victim. They were worried about other things," DeWine said.
"People made bad choices and the grand jury said there are repercussions."
A small city of 19,000 about 40 miles from Pittsburgh, Steubenville and its high-school football team, Big Red, became the center of a firestorm last year after the rape allegations surfaced.
Though charges were brought against two players, activists questioned why more people weren’t charged — including other students who sent photos, videos of texts about the assault, or adults who may have known about it but didn’t report it.
After Trent Mays, 17, and Ma’Lik Richmond, 16, were convicted of rape and sentenced to at least a year in juvenile prison in March, a grand jury was convened to determine if anyone else broke any laws.
It met 18 times and heard from 123 witnesses, ultimately issuing six indictments.
Last month, it charged William Rhinaman, 53, the Steubenville schools’ technology director, with tampering with evidence and obstructing justice. His 20-year-old daughter, Hannah, was charged with a theft unrelated to the rape case.
.
……………….
img code photo … Harding Stadium, home of the Steubenville High Big Red football team.
media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/131125…
Jason Cohn / Reuters file
……………….
.
On Friday, the grand jury issued the rest of the indictments, which were filed Monday — marking the end of the probe, according to the attorney general.
“Some may ask why others were not indicted,” DeWine said, explaining that a grand jury must find probable cause to charge someone with a crime.
“It is simply not sufficient that person’s behavior was reprehensible, disgusting, mean-spirited, or just plain stupid,” he said.
“Barring any new evidence, I believe that the grand jury’s work is done.”
The victim’s lawyer said he was satisfied with the outcome.
"We’re happy that there has been a full and complete investigation," said the attorney, Bob Fitzsimmons.
"That they went to the highest level in the school system and filed felony charges does demonstrate to me that they were very thorough."
He said the teen, who testified at Mays and Richmond’s trial, is "doing exceptionally well for what she has been through."
"She is in school full-time. She’s an honor roll student. She participated in a teen sport this year," Fitzsimmons said. "She still receives counseling and I’m sure she has some low moments in her life but she and the family have done an admirable job."
As he announced the charges, DeWine took particular aim at the role of social media in the case, saying that technology has created "an electronic barrier that divorces us from shame."
But he said the "culture of anything goes" went beyond Facebook and Twitter.
"It’s also about the underage drinking and the sex and the lying and the disrespect," he said.
"All too often parents have put on blinders. They allow their kids to have phones and cars and and let them have these parties —and all the while, the lines of appropriate behavior simply get blurred.
"It is up to the adults to intervene. It’s up to the adults to change things. It’s up to the adults to set boundaries. It’s up to the adults to teach the kids right from wrong."
It was unclear if any of those charged Monday have attorneys, and attempts to reach them by phone were unsuccessful. They are due in court Dec. 6.
McVey faces the most serious charges, including two felonies, and could get up to seven years in prison if convicted of all charges. Belardine, who is charged with four misdemeanors, would face a year and nine months in prison if convicted. Fluharty and Gorman would only face up to 30 days.
DeWine said that small city of Steubenville had been traumatized and that many good citizens and student athletes had been unfairly "maligned."
"This community has been torn apart by the actions and decisions not of the many but of the few," he said.
"It’s time to let Steubenville move on."
.
This story was originally published on Mon Nov 25, 2013 11:32 AM EST
.
— Related
… Ohio grand jury indicts daughter of school employee
… Verdicts in Steubenville high school rape trial
… Prosecution, defense rest their cases in Steubenville rape trial
… Steubenville high school rape trial zeroes in on texts, photos, video
… As rape trial opens, prosecutors says girl was ‘too impaired to say no’
.
.
.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
.
.
.
.