night while she was lying naked on the floor. in the state of ohio, this act performed without consent constitutes rape. there seems to be an unbelievable casualness about rape and about sex. it s a cavalier attitude, a belief that somehow there isn t even wrong with any of this. reporter: text messages, tweets and photos were at the center of the trial. fellow teens vulgarly joked about the rape. song of the night is definitely rape me by nirvana. what if that was your daughter? but it isn t. if it was my daughter, i wouldn t care. i d just let her be read. witnesses read text messes including this one about the victim from trent mays to a friend. yeah, dude, she was like a dead body. i just needed some sexual attention. there was no jury. this was a bench trial with visiting judge thomas lipps rendering a verdict because this was a juvenile case.
fellow teens vulgarly joked about the rape. song of the night is definitely rape me by nirvana. what if that was your daughter? it wasn t. if it was my daughter, i wouldn t care. witnesses read text messes including this one before b. the victim. yeah, dude, she was like a dead body. i just needed some sexual attention. there was no jury. this was a bench trial with visiting judge thomas lips rendering the verdict because this was a juvenile case. poppy harlow, cnn, steubenville, ohio. mark dewine announced after this verdict that a grant jury will be convened april 15th to determine if other crimes were committed in this incident, meaning more people could be charged here. 19 minutes after the hour. let s bring you up to speed on all the news happening around the world. a private jet slamming into two homes, possibly damaging a third, and ending up nose first
fellow teens vulgarly joked about the rape. song of the night is definitely rape me by nirvana. what if that was your daughter? but it isn t. if that was my daughter, i wouldn t care. i d just let her be dead. reporter: witnesses read text messages including this one from trent mays to a friend. yeah, dude, she was like a dead body. i sdwrus nejust need some had s attention. there was no jury. this was a bench trial with visiting judge thomas lipp sflt rendering the verdict because this was a juvenile case. and poppy harlow joins us live from steubenville. let s talk more about mike dewine, the ohio attorney general. what does he hope to find? well, he wants to make sure that as he put it yesterday in the press conference after this verdict came down here steubenville that every stone is overturned and nothing is left uncovered in this. the ohio attorney general s
friends of mays and richmond and granted immunity was damaging. he videotaped mays performing a sexual act on the girl during a car ride between parties. and others testified they saw richmond do the same while she was laying naked on the floor. in the state of ohio this act performed without consent constitutes rape. there seems to be an unbelievable casualness about rape and about sex. it s a cavalier attitude. a belief that somehow there isn t anything wrong with any of this. reporter: text messages, tweets and photos were at the center of the trial. fellow teens vulgarly joked about the rape. song of the night is definitely rape me by nirvana. if that was my daughter, i wouldn t care. i would let her be dead. witnesses read text messages
of mays and richmond, and all granted immunity from criminal prosecution, was damaging. one witness saying he videotaped mays performing a sexual act on the girls during a car ride between parties. two others testified they saw richmond do the same later that night while she was lying naked on the floor. in the state of ohio, this act performed without consent constitutes rape. there seems to be an unbelievable casualness about rape and about sex. it s a cavalier attitude. a belief that somehow there isn t anything wrong with any of this. text messages, tweets and photos were at the center of the trial. fellow teens joked about the rape, song of the night is definitely rape me by nirvana. if that was my daughter, i wouldn t care. i would just let her be dead.