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One suspects that part of the reason that the two perpetrators got off (relatively) lightly was because they agreed to name names. If Saccoccia is as involved in this as he seems to be - well, no being tried as a juvenile for him. Apparently in Ohio his position makes him a "mandatory reporter" - when working with young people in a professional capacity, you have a legal obligation to report suspected abuse.
We'll see how long it takes the good-old-boy network to abandon him to his fate. There's undoubtedly a massive amount of damage control happening right now.
Does anyone know why these boys were not tried as adults?
I wondered about that too--the rapists are 16 and 17. They're really young and if the goal is to rehabilitate them, that's pretty tough to do if they put them in prison with adult offenders. I'm not saying that I agree, but I'm guessing that might be the reasoning.
Normally? I pity any children you might have if you think it's alright for 16 year olds to get plastered and stay out all night without any parental supervision and expect nothing bad can ever happen to them.
I pity you if you think anything in the post you quoted indicates that the poster thinks it's alright for 16 year olds to get plastered and stay out all night without any parental supervision and expect nothing bad can ever happen to them.
Personally, I think it is stupid to try kids as adults since they are not adults.
And I think it's stupid that two teens on the verge of being an adult get off so easy on a techicality, because they weren't tried as an adult.
They should've been tried as adults, and they should've gotten severe penalties.
THis isn't a "kids will be kids", this is two young men raping a young woman and videotaping and laughing about it.
Their punishment is a slap on a wrist.
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