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🗓️ 20 March 2018
⏱️ 16 minutes
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0:00.0 | Five years ago, in Steubenville, Ohio, two high school football players were found responsible in juvenile court for the rape of a 16-year-old girl. |
0:09.9 | For much of the national media, that was the end of an incendiary story. |
0:15.0 | But for those in Stubinville, who lived through it, the truth never caught up to the lies that had spread online and the |
0:23.1 | vigilante terror that resulted. Now a new documentary reveals the danger of crowdsourcing justice |
0:30.1 | to online activists filled with blind rage and with the false assumptions about a cover-up that |
0:37.2 | never was. |
0:38.8 | Derek John and his producing partner Anders Kelto reported a three-part series called |
0:45.0 | Steubenville for Audubel's new Gamebreaker series. |
0:49.0 | Derek, a former OTM producer, joins us now. |
0:52.7 | Hey, man. |
0:53.4 | Hey, Bob. |
0:54.0 | Great to be back. This horrendous tale all began with |
0:57.9 | a high school party in Steubenville in 2012. What happened to that night? The local powerhouse |
1:06.9 | football team, Big Red, has a preseason scrimmage game on a Friday night. |
1:11.4 | And later that night, a lot of the players and other students are at a pretty, you know, |
1:15.5 | raucous party. And a 16-year-old girl from a neighboring town just across the river, |
1:21.5 | we're in West Virginia, is at this party. She sort of travels with a couple of these high |
1:27.0 | school football players. From one party to the |
1:29.5 | next, she gets increasingly drunk, at some point passes out, and then the boys assault her in various |
1:38.4 | ways without her consent, obviously, because she's unconscious. And then, you know, she wakes up the |
1:43.4 | next day, kind of having no clue what had happened. |
1:46.0 | But there were clues as to what happened because the kids responsible for the sexual violence did not keep it under wraps. |
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