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egern -> RE: Steubenville Rape: Teen Girls GUILTY Of Threatening Rape Victim On Twitter (5/3/2013 3:27:59 PM)
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ORIGINAL: kalikshama
...Also Thursday, two teenage girls were sentenced to probation after guilty pleas in the case of threatening tweets sent after the guilty verdict in the rape case was announced March 17.
One girl had been charged with aggravated menacing for a tweet that threatened homicide and said "you ripped my family apart," according to the attorney general's office. The girl is a cousin of defendant Ma'Lik Richmond, one of the football players found guilty.
A Twitter message from the second girl threatened the rape victim with bodily harm, leading to a menacing charge. One of the messages was later reposted on Facebook.
The girls acknowledged in court Thursday they "made bad tweets."
Charges of intimidation of a witness and aggravated menacing were dropped and the two 16-year-olds admitted to a single misdemeanor charge of telecommunications harassment and received six months' probation, said Sara Gasser, an attorney for one of the girls.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/02/steubenville-rape-teen-girls-guilty-threats-twitter_n_3204301.html
It is a start, I guess, but 'go and sin no more' seems lenient in the extreme in a case so poisonous.
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