Steubenville, Ohio may finally slink out of the spotlight, after two of the town's high school football players were convicted of raping a 16-year-old with their fingers.
Trenton Mays, 17, and Ma’lik Richmond, 16, were adjucated delinquent and could be in a juvenile detention facility until they turn 21.
The rape case drew national attention after the accused and their friends joked about the incident and showed a galling sense of impunity over social media. At one point Mays told a friend that coach Reno Saccoccia would make the charges go away. In January Steubenville was forced to launch a website to combat the perception that "the football team runs this city."
That's the kind of mindset that develops in a depressed Appalachian town where Big Red Football is the hottest thing around.
The population of Steubenville, Ohio peaked in 1940 at 37,651. Since then it has shrunk year after year to only 18,440 people in 2011.
The decline of the local steel industry has seen unemployment rise and incomes fall.
In this depressed town, one bright spot is the Steubenville High School Big Red football team.
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