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[suspenseful music]

[laughing]

-[Man] Oh my god.

-[Man] Oh my god.

[beeping]

[rock music]

♪ Cut off

♪ Cut off

♪ This is for the suffer

♪ This is for the proof

♪ This is for the lover soaking in the truth ♪

♪ This is for the liar

♪ This is for the dream

♪ This is for America burning at the seams ♪

♪ Cut off

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♪ Call my America

♪ Call my America

♪ Call my America

♪ Call my America

♪ USA, USA, USA

♪ Put him out

♪ Put him out

♪ Put him out

♪ Put him out

[men shouting]

-[Radio Announcer] News Radio 1170, WWDA.

-[Radio Reporter] Watch out for the weather out there today

storm watch in effect in West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania.

Cities included are Pittsburgh

so it's gonna be a nasty bag of weather.

Let's just put it that way.

A couple of local stories for ya.

I'm working on a story out of Steubenville

that is very, very disturbing.

I can't give you many details right now.

It's just one of those stories

that you're talking about underage kids

and we just have to cross a couple more Ts.

Paul Morgan on Bloom Daddy back coming at you next.

I'll see you tomorrow same time.

-It was early morning.

Jane Doe, the victim,

started getting text messages and chats.

A picture was actually sent by a friend who said

"I think this is you."

The parents made a report of sexual assault

and I interviewed her that afternoon.

It wasn't actually a very long interview

when it comes down to it,

because she couldn't remember much.

She knows she had been drinking

and others had been drinking as well.

Her next memory is waking up in the morning,

the Sunday morning of the 12th of August.

Can't find her phone, she's not wearing any clothes,

she's under a blanket,

and in the room were both Trent Mays and Ma'lik Richmond.

Trent Mays was the primary suspect

and Ma'lik Richmond was seen as having had some involvement.

You know, I advised them that they do have rights

and both had chosen not to give a statement.

Thank you.

Trying to get the truth from kids who in a sense

are telling on friends,

that's maybe one of the biggest obstacles to overcome.

We were in communication with the prosecution

and they said there's grounds to make an arrest.

So the week later, they were arrested.

[beeping]

[slow music]

-When I first read the story,

there wasn't a lot of substance to the article.

Two high school football players had been charged,

just a couple of paragraphs about these two boys

and that was it.

I thought this is nuts because that town is so entrenched

in their football team, this is big news.

I've been blogging for a long time,

usually about true crime cases.

Not everything is as it seems.

If something stinks, I'm gonna be the first person

that calls it out.

What you chewing at?

Being from Steubenville, I developed a sense

of what the community was like.

Good girl.

To me, it wasn't a very woman-friendly environment.

So that's when I started snooping around.

I went to the high school's website,

pulled the roster of all the football players,

and I started searching for any social media

that they may have had online.

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.

Everyone had their full legal name

and I determined that after a scrimmage game

for Big Red High School,

there were several end of the summer parties

that all of the kids were attending.

There were tweets going around,

everyone's having a great time,

but then something changed.

I sat up for hours and hours

and just followed timelines fanning out, you know,

who was retweeting what at a certain time.

So it was almost like watching this in real time.

By the end of the night, a young girl

from across the river had been sexually assaulted.

Just, I mean, I was shocked.

It's like a rotten onion.

I mean, you peel one layer back

and there's something equally as rotten underneath it.

-[Announcer] Roll Red Roll!

Now, live from Harding Stadium, the home of the Big Red...

Kids are back in school, that can mean only one thing.

It's time for high school football.

The 2012 version Steubenville's Big Red opens this season

with an opponent who's making his third trip to the...

[pep music]

-We are still working a little blind

off of just the evidence that we've been given.

But this is being texted about, it's being tweeted,

and it's amongst a student body

that has just gotten into school.

This was a tough enough investigation already

because it involves people who all know each other.

-Anything else, sir?

16.

I've been in that atmosphere,

I've been in that kind of situation

that those kids was in, and nine times out of 10,

and I'm not trying to call no one or nothing,

but nine times out of 10, the woman engaged in it.

Best way to put it.

It's never been like "Come on, let's go in this room

"and I gotta drag you" or nothing.

Never had.

'Cause I take the R word serious.

You know, I don't play with that.

That's one word that I won't play with. May I help you?

-[Woman] Yes, pickup for Blocker.

-[Jeremy] Is it a cake?

-I think it was a party that got out of hand.

When that kind of stuff happened when I was in school,

you were a bad boy, you know?

Got suspended or disciplined.

You know, now they want to put you in jail.

And I'm not condoning any of it,

it's just things have changed over the last 40 years.

-Most of the people that what I heard talking,

a lot of people would say "Oh, you should see the pictures

"she posted on Instagram, you know,

"you should have seen the outfit she had on."

And everybody was talking bad about Jane Doe and...

Can't even imagine everybody in the area knowing,

you know, that that's my child

and this is what they did to her

and it's just, it's heartbreaking.

-[DJ Bloomdaddy] It's 7:45, this is the latest

on the incident out of Steubenville.

All I can tell you is this.

It's a she said, he said right now without a doubt.

You know, anybody can make an allegation.

These girls at these parties sometimes maybe drink

a little bit too much,

sometimes they get a little promiscuous,

all of a sudden they're being called, you know, a whore,

what have you, and it's really easy to all of a sudden say

you were taken advantage of rather than own up to the fact

that, hey, look, I did what I did.

-[Man] [mumbles] Yeah.

-[DJ Bloomdaddy] It's easier to tell your parents

you were raped than "Hey, Mom, Dad, I got drunk

"and decided to let three guys have their way with me."

That's all I'm saying, based on who I've spoken to.

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[slow music]

-It wasn't just that she was raped,

but they humiliated her.

Song of the night: Rape Me.

Nodi: Some people deserve to be peed on.

Cody Saltsman takes a photo and posts it to Instagram.

He tags it Sloppy.

I figured at some point this stuff will probably disappear

so I kept screenshots for myself.

I used some archive tools to go back

looking for deleted information.

I mean, once you start reading conversations

among all of these kids and you're going back for months

and a year, I mean, you start finding all kinds of things.

I mean, it was all out there.

Just the complete lack of empathy,

that was what was so frightening.

And you know, I had seen some local forums

where the discussion was already escalating

that she was not raped.

And the victim blaming is starting by adults.

These kids were openly calling it rape.

If these kids are calling it rape, they knew it was rape.

And it was at that point that I decided

to post what was out there.

Once I posted, it was mayhem.

It got to the point that I couldn't even read

through all the comments.

I mean, people were upset, they were mad.

It was crazy the amount of traffic coming from Steubenville.

But I think when people actually saw screen captures

of what these kids were saying,

it caused a very visceral reaction.

People have a right to know.

-Amen.

-[All] Amen.

-Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit, amen.

It seems as if it hit social media and just exploded.

As soon as the word was out, I started following the story.

There were photographs starting to circulate already

and deleted texts and all this type of stuff was going on.

And the earliest photographs were very disturbing.

You know, the idea of an incapacitated girl

being drug around is horrible,

and as a father that's horrible.

I mean, the last thing you want to do

is imagine your daughter in that type of situation

or your boys in that type of situation.

-I don't know.

Maybe I'm sheltered.

Like I don't even know how you have children

that think that that's okay.

If that would happen to one of my kids,

I can't even imagine, can't even imagine.

[men shouting]

-Like maybe if she had been sending

or posting inappropriate pictures of herself,

that possibly made the boys do what they did,

and you can become known as a not so good person

[laughs] just for that.

We weren't allowed to have Facebook until we were 16,

which I know a lot of people have created accounts

behind their parents' backs.

So you have the nice perfect daughter account that mom sees

and then you have the little slut account

that everyone else sees.

Honestly, this is terrible, but I didn't think that much

about it.

Yes, the boys were definitely not in the right

but she was also at a party

that she probably shouldn't have been at.

She has to take responsibility for the choice she made

to go to that party.

-When you put yourself in that situation,

you have to take some responsibility for your actions.

-It was just a regular night, just a regular party.

People just chilling for the most part.

And I wasn't with them for a portion of the night.

That's when things got terrible.

Yeah, that's my boy here.

I mean, he wrestled with me,

he wrestled a weight class above me.

We were partners, like really.

Growing up here was awesome.

Football and all that, and sports,

it's like a brotherhood forever,

that's what I would be a part of.

[cheering]

Like a fraternity you can never get out of.

But our coaches and stuff told us like integrity,

courage, self-discipline, take responsibility

in everything you do.

Do right by yourself and by others.

And in the manliest way possible, you know what I mean?

-Trent got arrested,

so we were just like "Man, we're down a quarterback", right?

-Yeah.

-[Radio Host] I'm gonna read you a couple of emails.

Let me start with this one.

If you Google this Alex Goddard, she is indeed a cyberbully.

What she's doing now, posting screenshots of tweets

made by innocent kids is a sin.

Just because a kid retweets a post or replies to a post

doesn't mean that kid had anything to do with rape.

It's just creating more victims.

Prinniefied.com is not doing this community any favors.

Continue to cover this news in a fair and balanced way,

that's what separates the journalists from the others.

-We got an email from someone that lives in the city

of Steubenville and it said "Please pay attention to this.

"The local media's not gonna pay attention to it."

I did some preliminary looking, you know,

and I realized if we don't cover it,

I'm not sure it will get covered the way it needs to.

I've probably covered hundreds of rape cases.

You're always gonna get two very different sides

but this was just at another level.

We didn't know exactly what happened

but we knew there was a lot of defensiveness about it.

For my initial piece, I did talk to Alex Goddard.

What she was finding, what she was hearing

was all playing into the context,

was all playing into the feeling

of what was going on down there.

She helped raise a lot of questions

about why people were responding so viscerally

to everything that was going on.

The question was, is this football town

putting its daughters at risk

by protecting its sons in a situation like this?

I attempted to talk to the coach.

It was kind of hard even to get into the stadium.

A lot of people were kind of dirty looking me

when I tried to get down there.

And I just wanted to ask him, you know,

did he know what his players were saying?

Did he know what they were doing on social media?

And he got really frustrated and started talking

about how "I gotta protect these guys"

and "These are not bad kids" and stuff like that.

He didn't seem to really understand the gravity

of the statements that some of the players were making,

the context in which his players were speaking

about young women in town.

-[Reporter] We asked school superintendent Michael McVey

why responsibility for disciplining any other players

admittedly at the party was given to the football coach.

-Do you see a possible conflict of interest there?

-Protocol was followed, sir.

-What is the protocol?

Did you and the principal defer to the football coach?

-We followed our discipline protocol as we usually do.

And once everything's over, when the facts are out,

then we will make our decisions of what has to be done

or who was involved or who was not involved.

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[beeping]

-Pictures, text messages.

Social media's role in this case

and how it helped us was documentation, you know,

there's a date and time.

So they provide for us evidence from something

about our victim's, that span of time

that she has no memory of.

I had never seen a case constructed like this.

I have yet to have a case with that many elements in play,

that many people who have some information

about my victim's process from A, B, C.

I mean, she was in three different places.

So to start, you know, there is this party

and it's in Steubenville and this first party,

A we'll call it.

Our victim is there and we know that she remembers clearly

meeting Trent Mays at the party.

She already knew him, she'd already been in communication

and contact with him.

I do believe too that she remembered seeing

and maybe having spoken to Ma'lik as well.

And from there, they drive to another get together,

let's call it B.

Party B is happening over here

and that is still also in Steubenville,

not far at all from Point A.

That's where the picture from Instagram was taken.

One of the girls talks about how as they're trying

to carry her,

Trent's like stepping on her hair,

so she says "You guys gotta carry her in some other way."

So Ma'lik carries her then to the car.

We believe that's where her memory is

of sitting on a street throwing up.

She is then brought to C.

We know at C that that is where some of the other boys there

they see what happens from Trent and Ma'lik to our victim.

There definitely were marked moments during that night

where you had hoped for some kind of a hero

or someone to step in.

-I didn't think that reposting what these kids did

was doing anything wrong.

Because I'm not writing the story here, their words are.

Probably 99% of the things that were being whispered

in my ear in the background,

that's never been put out on the blog.

You know, I wasn't gonna use my blog as, you know,

a gossip mill.

People commented on my blog

because they wanted an anonymous outlet to talk about this

because they feared harassment.

Sit, good boy.

But probably after I was sued for defamation of character

is when I was really like, they mean business,

they're pissed.

I think the people in Steubenville, they hate my guts.

They hate my freakin' guts.

And it's okay that they hate me

because I did what I thought was the right thing to do.

[beeping]

I didn't know whether or not my safety was in jeopardy.

After the defamation suit,

it created kind of a chilling effect on the blog

because people were afraid of commenting

since we'd already been sued.

I probably haven't been blogging a lot since.

I've had horrible things said about me.

It hurts but it's their right to have that opinion.

I'm not gonna file a freakin' lawsuit.

I'm not sure how the New York Times found out.

I think the family, by virtue of suing me,

brought attention to Steubenville, Ohio.

People were bullying and harassing me

but then the tweets changed.

Blogger Gets Sued For Defamation,

#FreeSpeech, #Anonymous.

And then on Christmas Day, that's when crap hit the fan.

[suspenseful music]

-Greetings, citizens of the world.

We are Anonymous.

We are Knight Sec.

Around mid-August 2012, a party took place

in a small town in Ohio known as Steubenville.

On this fateful night, a life was changed forever

as a group of the football players at Big Red High School

began taking advantage of an underage girl.

This is a call to arms.

The girl was sexually assaulted, raped,

and drug unconscious from party to party.

We are Anonymous.

The town of Steubenville has been good at keeping this quiet

and their star football team protected.

We are Anonymous.

We do not forgive, we do not forget.

Make no mistake, you can hide no longer.

You have attracted the attention of the hive.

You now have the world looking directly at you.

Wise not to shield the guilty.

Op Roll Red Roll engaged.

Expect us.

[laughing]

-Are you serious?

-[Man] Oh my god.

-[Man] Bro, did he do it?

-Is it really rape because you don't know if she wanted it?

She might have wanted it.

-The attempts to minimize this were shot to hell

when the Michael Nodianos video was published.

This is the first time that rape culture

was put in their face.

You know, a lot of people didn't even know

what the word was, what is rape culture?

But they do now.

[cheering]

-[Man] Welcome to Steubenville.

We're here for justice.

If you got something to say, come up.

-I'm gonna speak up.

Are you gonna speak up?

[applause]

-We drove past the court house

and it was a little bit freaky seeing them

with the masks and everything.

That freaked me out a little bit

and they kept having the rallies downtown and everything

and it was just kind of scary,

knowing that there was that spotlight on our town now.

-You don't forgive and you don't forget.

-[Woman] I admire this girl because she had enough guts

to go press charges against her rapist.

That's something I didn't get to do.

And we need to be there with her when she's in court.

We need to help her get through this.

-There's a big protest that you can see that's going on

right behind me on the steps

of the Jefferson County Court House.

-Over the weekend, more than 1,000 showed up

outside the county court house.

-[Crowd] Shame on you, shame on you!

-[Man] NBC, CBS, CNN, FOX, ABC, Dr. Phil, Judge Janine,

Piers Morgan, Dr. Drew.

You name it, they were in Steubenville.

And let me just say this.

It was wrong what they did,

so nobody out there starts misconstruing.

I almost hate, I can't wait for this story to go away.

-I just didn't understand it all

because I don't think it's something that doesn't occur

in other cities and states and counties all over.

I really don't understand what was going on.

-[Angela] My name's Angela--

-[Sarah] My name is Sarah.

I grew up here, I was born and raised here.

-[Woman] And I was born and raised

right here in Steubenville.

-[Alicia] My name's Alicia,

I'm a citizen of Steubenville here.

-[Woman] And at the age of 14, I was raped

by a star football player that I had a crush on.

-[Woman] I was raped in 2000.

-[Woman] I thought he was so nice.

-[Woman] I was drugged, carried limp,

and nothing became of it.

-[Woman] And those friends didn't believe me!

-[Woman] I said no, repeatedly, repeatedly.

I was pinned down and there was no way I could have moved.

-[Woman] I'm 58 years old and I was sexually assaulted

50 years ago as a child.

-[Woman] It's been over 30 years for me.

-[Woman] And I was five years old.

-[Woman] I was raped when I was 11.

-[Woman] When I was 15, I was raped.

-[Woman] When I was in my mid-20s.

-[Woman] And I was raped by two high school senior boys

who were my babysitters.

-[Woman] I was drugged by a 26 year old man.

A lot of people around me didn't believe me.

They thought I was stupid because I went to a party.

-[Woman] I fought for my life

because I didn't want it to happen again.

-My name is Michele, I'm 51 years old.

Never told anybody, kept it hidden,

and my heart breaks for this little girl.

And I wasn't gonna speak.

I had no intention of going up there and speaking

but as soon as I got there, I don't know what it was.

It was just as soon as I saw those steps

and those people speaking, I just made a beeline

for them steps, I went up there,

and it's like "I want to talk."

You have no idea what it feels like to go through

what I went through.

Anybody that's been sexually assaulted wears a mask

because of the shame.

For 10 years, I was afraid to walk outside my house.

-[Woman] Didn't want to go to the mall, get out of my car,

I was afraid of everything.

-[Woman] But I couldn't do anything and I had nobody

and I was alone.

-And until you get your story out there,

until you can release that,

until you get rid of that shame, you know,

that's when the mask comes off.

-[Woman] Thank you all for being here for this girl,

she deserves everyone's support.

And I won't put up with that anymore.

If you've been assaulted, speak up.

It is not your fault.

It is not your fault.

We're here for you.

-You know, the rally was a lot of things,

not just a protest.

Just to see these women getting up there

and taking their mask off and...

And then just watching.

It's like this transformation,

because they were able to say it and to release it.

[chanting]

-[Reporter] And now local police are under fire

from protestors who say they slow-walked the case

to protect the football program.

-We want justice!

-Protests across the street that we're not doing our job.

We were doing our job.

-I freak out just how big this case got.

You know, went through the Twitter accounts

and I found, you know, very disturbing messages.

There were things online that the local media

was not presenting or hadn't found.

-You know, I'm extremely proud of what she's done

but she's definitely made a lot of people angry.

[reporter speaking in foreign language]

-It made me question the culture that we live in.

It's kind of that thing,

you kind of have to step into another person's shoes

and realize that, you know,

it's a person we're talking about.

-[Woman] We all have a voice

and it will be heard eventually, if not today, tomorrow.

It will happen.

This is for Jane Doe.

She needs to be protected.

-There's been accusations that Jane Doe

has to relive this all the time.

You know, I question whether or not am I re-exploiting her

and I've struggled with that.

This picture's been out there.

And when I posted it, I pixelated her entire body out

to protect her.

And it gets difficult for me because...

You know, am I making her relive this by being vocal

and demanding that Steubenville now, you know,

that they do the right thing.

Sorry.

-[Man] If someone says gang rape,

I would say "Can you tell me what you mean?

"Can you tell me more about it, tell me what happened?"

If someone says train,

I would say "Can you tell me what you mean?"

I feel like I'm gonna get about the same.

In which people are having sex with one person.

[slow music]

-A typical case, you have the word of a victim, alone,

which is sufficient.

I mean, the case law and the jury instructions in Ohio

are very clear.

The word of the victim alone is sufficient to prove a fact, if believed.

And in this case, it was a little different

because we had the victim's word

that "I don't remember what happened."

This was a sexual assault with teenagers

and the cell phones told the story.

-Our client, Trenton Mays, did not rape the young lady in question

and it's the state's burden of proof

to show that he did.

-I think this was unique in the sense

that Anonymous got involved.

Certainly it was unique in the media attention it garnered.

The stress level for the victim was off the charts.

Just kind of foisted upon her,

because no matter what she still gets scrutinized

even though she's not the person accused of a crime.

Michael Nodianos who was not there at Mark's house,

his video in a very odd way became the backbone

of our investigation because we could tell

who was saying what.

But his video is not a crime.

It does shock your conscience but it's not a crime.

Cody Saltsman, he's the one that posted the first picture

on Instagram.

But that in and of itself is not a crime.

Yes, we had photos, we had 400,000 text messages.

Even with the mountain of social media,

we could not have proved penetration without eyewitnesses.

The three individuals, the three boys in the room

with Trent and Ma'lik were Mark Cole, it was his house,

Anthony Craig, who took photos,

and Evan Westlake.

And he was the one who of course made the video.

I could not prove penetration without them.

So we had to give them immunity.

-The town of Steubenville, Ohio has been rocked

by allegations that two

of its star high school football players

raped a 16 year old girl last summer.

Now this case has drawn national attention

and this morning the two teens go on trial.

-My client was a juvenile,

so he has limited number of years on the earth

to even know the quality of the decisions

and or the ramifications.

God made him big, he also made him shy.

And he's in a town that's depressed,

he's in a town that loves its football team,

and a lot of it was circumstantial for him.

Based on the evidence,

a lot of it was wrong place, wrong time.

-What we had to prove was that the defendants engaged

in sexual conduct in a circumstance

where the victim is substantially impaired.

-Well, in the state of Ohio,

the law is that if one is substantially impaired,

then they cannot properly give consent.

Even if they do give consent,

the impairment negates the consent that was given.

If both parties, as was in this case, were intoxicated

and that's the basis for rape,

the question become who raped who?

The young lady admitted to drinking alcohol,

she admitted to drinking a large cup of alcohol.

While in this state where she can't recall events,

the victim gave access code to her cell phone.

Giving someone access to a phone is a form of consent.

And this is not a victim blame.

But this young girl consented at one point in the evening

to being in the company of these young boys.

People would say it's okay for this young woman

to have made this choice,

but the moment that the choice was wrong,

it's not her fault anymore.

-Ma'lik was very much following the lead set by Trent Mays.

You didn't see Ma'lik try to manipulate the victim.

She didn't know Ma'lik.

But Trent Mays, he had really singled her out.

She had met Trent before these parties

and was interested in dating him.

She thought she knew him

and she thought she could trust him.

He played on that.

He knew who she was, he knew she was an outsider,

he knew how drunk she was,

there's no question about that because everybody there did.

He used that.

You know, come with me, come to this other party,

come into the car.

He used her like a toy.

These other boys weren't asking for the picture.

Trent was sending it out to make fun of her,

to degrade her even further.

If you're looking at photos, you're a witness.

If you're passing the photos, that's a crime.

Even if it's to your buddy and you think it's a big joke,

that's a crime.

That gives you some insight into Trent Mays's personality.

You talk about predatory nature

and then you see it like that in such a young kid

that has so much promise otherwise on the outside,

and it makes you stop and wonder, you know,

how does that happen?

-Is there anything that Trent Mays would like to say?

Thank you.

Anything you'd like to say, Ma'lik?

[crying]

-I'm sorry, I never wanted...

[gentle music]

[raining]

-This case does highlight the power of peer pressure.

Everybody was saying stuff, everybody was laughing about it.

But there were kids that we met during our investigation

who were, for the most part, really good kids.

Like Shawn McGee, who went "No, this is all wrong."

-[Shawn] Well, yeah, I had to testify in court.

It was terrible, because it was my really good friends,

you know, involved.

-[Man] Come on, bro, we're going.

-[Man] I'm sorry, but Nodi's funny.

[laughing]

-You know, quite often I just wish I was

with my friend Trent the whole night

and nothing would have ever happened.

But the love and care I have for my friends,

I just didn't want to see them in any bad situations.

And I just wish it never happened.

I don't know.

For the most part, there was no negative fallout

on me speaking up.

Everyone knew that, you know,

what I was saying was in the right.

People were like not thinking what the reality

of the situation was.

-Throughout the investigation,

because everybody was asking questions,

not only how this happened among the teenagers

but which adults knew about this.

Did adults know that something happened and not report it?

People were asking the question what was going on

in Steubenville?

-A notorious rape case took an unexpected turn today.

Charges were filed against the superintendents of schools,

a principal, and two coaches.

-After the August rape was reported,

there was kind of an explosion of conversation

about an incident that happened in April.

-Is it true that some of these charges do not relate

to the rape case that we all understand?

The 16 year old, the two boys who were arrested.

That some of the charges are related to an earlier rape

of a 14 year old student who came forward

after the publicity over the case that we're all aware of.

Is that true?

Do these charges stem from separate incidents?

-I will simply say that there was a separate incident...

-There were a number of adults that were aware

that something happened way back in the spring, in April.

It involved a young woman in a very similar situation

to what happened in August.

-It was on Twitter actually.

They had all tweeted about it in April.

What we do know is that she was a 14 year old girl,

she had had a lot to drink,

and at some point she was not completely conscious.

She was in a room that was mostly full of boys

and she was naked.

Some of the witnesses told police they heard Trent Mays

and Anthony Craig may have had sex with her.

That wasn't something she really had a recollection of,

although she did tell police

that afterwards people started telling her things.

Some people started calling her a slut or a whore in school.

That some of the guys had run a train on her.

She did tell police that she didn't want

to get anybody in trouble for what happened,

that in the fact she was really being harassed

for whatever happened that night

and a lot of blame being placed on her.

-It seems that the grand jury was able to look back in time

and actually punish a pattern of conduct,

which is really what a lot of people in the community

were calling for, right?

-We had adults who were, frankly, more worried

about protecting an institution

or worried about protecting some kids

and they were not concerned about the victim

and that's really what this is about,

a failure to protect the victim.

-[Woman] It's more about the culture that contributed

to the rape in the first place.

If someone who's really important to your school

or your town or your football team is accused of something,

there's always going to be a lot of people coming

to their aid to explain what happened

or what didn't happen.

If people knew about this in April,

if teachers knew about it, if coaches knew about it,

if the principal knew about it, if parents knew about it,

why was nothing done about that?

And then we have August.

-I don't know, you wish that...

The coaches, the adults, whoever,

all these people that were involved,

had not chosen to do what they did.

No one said "This was a big mistake,

"this was super bad behavior,

"this is not how men should behave,

"this is not how women should be treated."

That's one of the things that felt like a failure.

-The town's in need of healing and unification.

It's in need of building of community.

As largely publicized and national as that went,

how do we overcome that?

There's something, I don't know how to say it on camera

because it's not very popular.

One of the ways that we could heal

is to actually address rape

and make a place of healing for victims, perpetrators,

or family members of rape.

Because crime, all crime, affects an entire community.

Especially something as grievous as rape.

-You know, there's a part of this town and the community

that I think, especially because

of the school gets involved, there was those who sided

and those who don't.

I saw people respond that way.

I'd run into people in the store

and right away they would be attacking.

Part of the lesson learned here I have is victim blaming.

Blaming the victim, blaming the victim.

I'm sorry, that's not what this investigation is about.

In a sense, for a town moving forward,

it's still a long way to go.

-[Man] We're not convicting an entire team

and people need to remember that.

There are a lot of individuals up there

who are good students, good kids, good football players.

This is one of the preeminent programs in the state of Ohio.

This is how we identify.

And that's what gave it the air

of "Okay, we don't have to answer to anybody."

But that's the mentality that's gotta go.

Then the truth does get out.

And then let the chips fall where they may.

-The tattoo means in Latin "always the truth"

and I wanted to get something that signified the journey

that I had been on.

And then I just thought that that was very profound.

And so I got it.

[gentle music]

I don't even think I put a label on it

about what happened.

And it was a guy who I was dating who was older than me.

His brother raped me.

And I kept it quiet.

It doesn't define who I am

but of course somebody that has been through that,

it's gonna hit home.

So you know, when I saw this going on,

I felt an obligation to do something.

People are still mad, they're still talking about it,

so I think that things can change.

♪ Am I wrong to feel pain?

♪ These are the thoughts I have when I feel ashamed ♪

♪ I'm not alone

♪ We've all lived something

♪ If we share, it's not for nothing ♪

♪ We aren't wrong to want more ♪

♪ Can you see me?

♪ Oh, I need nothing

♪ Still need to breathe and be ♪

♪ The master of myself

♪ Isolation

♪ Deliberation

♪ No, nothing heals me but to be the master of myself ♪

♪ When they ask who's to blame ♪

♪ I will silent shout and whisper their names ♪

♪ Modern day theft, turns tale of cautions ♪

♪ Somehow my consent was never an option ♪

♪ How can we heal when we ignore? ♪

♪ It's not something you forget ♪

♪ It is something learned to live with ♪

♪ It's not something you forget ♪

♪ That's [mumbles]

♪ Forget

♪ Destination

♪ Liberation

♪ No, nothing heals me but to be the master of myself ♪