Two teens found guilty in Steubenville rape case – CNN.com

As I type this CNN is parading Ma’lik’s father around like he was a victim, instead of a father who did not succeed in teaching his not to rape people.

Apparently the boy collapsed into his lawyer’s arms saying, “My life is over. No one will want me now.”

Apparently I am supposed to feel bad for him?

It’s a damn shame that a young man will be stigmatized like that. You know what is a bigger shame? What he did to that girl. What about the impact on her? Where are the excuses for her behavior?

Sometimes in life kiddo you don’t realize the impact of what you are doing but that doesn’t mean you get to escape the consequences. You’re guilty of making a mistake, you’re guilty of traumatizing an innocent person and refusing to acknowledge her humanity is every bit as real as yours. You’re guilty of thinking you were going to get away with it and you didn’t start to regret your actions until the consequences became real to you. It’s too bad your life is over but what you did to that girl is worse so suck it up. Perhaps other teenage jock assholes will think twice before following in your footsteps. Perhaps the loser jock assholes in town will even, in time, come to see you as the badguy and the girl as the victim, either way have fun in jail bitch.