who else deserves blame

     Rape is a series crime especially ones that happen with underage girls and It is unforgivable. Two drunken young football players, 17 and 16, sexually assaulted a six-teen year old girl at a party in Steubenville, Ohio. They dragged the six-teen year old girl while she was unconscious by her hands and feet. With no fear of the consequences the two young football players mock and then raped her in front of multiple witnesses. I do blame the two football players for this heinous crime but even more I blame the adults and peers who give these kids this superiority complex because the play sports.

    

     Most people believe everyone is responsible for their own actions which in ways are true. Poppy Harlow a reporter from CNN said that it’s hard to see the two young men with “promising futures” to have their lives destroyed. That sounds like he blames the victim for the rape and people like that gives these young adults the belief that what they did is not their fault. People like this if they could they would try to cover up this crime because they believe what these young men do on the football field is so important. But when crimes like these get swept under the rug it affects them when they become men. When these young men go on to have families of their own they still have the ideals they had in high school. Their sons become rapist, their daughters believe they can belittle others, they might rape women and other underage girls, or their daughters might even get abused by their fathers. “Rapists rarely feel like they’ve done anything wrong.” (PARA rape facts).

     
     There are people in this world who do bad things and for those actions there should be consequences. In some crimes there is an accomplice and depending how much they were involved they are punish accordingly. What determines who’s an accomplice and how they should be punished in this case? Dose an accomplice just have to be the ones participating or the ones who did nothing which made the boys believe it was accepted and make the victims feel they are wrong for reporting it? According to a national survey of college women, less than 5% of completed and attempted rapes were reported to the police. (Fisher, Cullen and Turner, U.S. Dept. of Justice, 2000).Dose an accomplice just have to be the ones who dragged the young girl by her feet and arms or could they be the ones who call the convicted rapist heroes?   “Persons under 18 years of age account for 67% of all sexual assault victimizations reported to law enforcement agencies.” (Snyder, 2000). There are people who do bad things but the people who tell these people what you did was okay are bad people.