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cultures. social media and idol worship of high school sports stars. today trent mays and ma lik richmond begin the first full day of serving sentences this juvenile detention. a judge found the teens guilty of raping a drunk 16-year-old girl. i would like to apologize to you. i had no intentions to do anything like that. i m sorry to put you guys through this. i d just like i just want you to realize that i m sorry. i know i ruined her life, for life the prosecutors say the boys
torment. images and crude comments on her sexual assault were plastered all over the internet. it was crown in cruelty that questions the culture of social media and the idol worship of high school sports stars. last hour we heard from a clinical psychologist and also a rape crisis counselor. here we had a town that has a football mentality where these playe erers can get away with appalling behavior so something led up to this. you have to look at the gang mentality that night. there were other teenagers involved who had taken pictures of her so people were egging each other on toward this very inappropriate, horrific and sexually violating behavior. i want to read you something that the attorney general, mike dewine said. he said that rape is notrec ation rational activity. they need to know it is a