"This is worse. Anonymous Mom Submissions Terms & Conditions. The evidence is a disturbing video posted Jan. 2 by the hacker group Anonymous. They peed on her. The Prestigious school where Princes William and Harry were educated is EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Prince William's potentially awkward visit to homelessness charity. [6], On March17, 2013, Trent Mays and Ma'lik Richmond were convicted of digital rape after the trial judge found they had used their fingers to digitally penetrate the victim's vagina and that it was impossible for the incapacitated girl to have given consent. "She is so raped," he said. Michael Nodianos' attorney, Dennis McNamara, told members of the press his client has had his email, Facebook and Twitter accounts hacked, according to the Herald Star. Four school officials were indicted. Trent Mays, 17, and Ma'lik Richmond, 16 . Mike McVey, Steubenville City Schools superintendent, was charged with multiple felonies for obstructing justice. Roll Red Roll is, above . Couple find note in chimney that reveals their 290,000 house was 100 times cheaper 50 years ago. His family has received threats, and his Twitter account, email, and Facebook page were all hacked, along with the email accounts of his parents and grandparents, according to McNamara. Gayle Saunders, a university spokeswoman, issued a statement three days after the Nodianos video leaked to the Internet. Copyright 2023 IBTimes LLC. $4.99 + $0.84 shipping. Things are especially looking up in his personal life, though: He got married tohis girlfriend of two-and-a-half months who has a 7-year-old kid. A female protester, who was among a group wearing the Guy Fawkes masks associated with Anonymous, alleged that Belardine shouted things including, "I'm from Steubenville, fuck Anonymous, you're a bunch of pussies and We rape whores like you." Palooza is the local nickname for Coach Joe Pierro's house, the Daily Mail reports. Michael Nodianos hasnt been charged with a crime in connection to the alleged rape of a 16-year-old girl by two members of the Steubenville High School football team in August. Former Steubenville Student Michael Nodianos, responded with a fictional monologue of the event, tweeted "Some people deserve to be peed on", which was retweeted later by several people, including Mays. Now hes forming his own business, Cybersecurity Solutions LLC, which fittingly, given his claim to fame, will specialize in protecting companies from hackers. Michael Nodianos, part of the "Rape Crew. The parents sued Goddard and a dozen anonymous posters in October 2012; a legal blogger labeled it a SLAPP suit. Maliks father, Nathaniel Richmond, has said this about his son: I am speaking on behalf of my son, Malik, when I ask you to not rush to a personal judgment. Richmond had a one-year sentence and was released earlier. They cheered him on everyFridaynight. In January, charges of obstructing justice and tampering with evidence were dropped against ex-superintendent Mike McVey after he resigned. This Instagram photo is physical evidence of the 16-year-old's rape by the athletes in August of 2012, Hearing: Trent Mays, 17, sits in the court room during a break on the fourth day of the juvenile trial in 2013 for he and co-defendant Ma'lik Richmond, 16, on rape charges in juvenile court in Steubenville, Ohio, Juvenile detention: Defense attorney Adam Nemann, Trent Mays, then 17, Ma'lik Richmond, then 16, and defense attorney Walter Madison listen to the prosecuting attorney's statement in juvenile court in 2013, Sentenced on year: Ma'lik Richmond reacts as the guilty verdict is read in the juvenile court in Steubenville, Ohio March 17, 2013 when he was sentenced to one year. Email. I went through three or four evictions, three different cities, had people calling and harassing places I worked for, said Lostutter, who is also known as KYAnonymous. Michael B. Jordan came face-to-face with an old Chad Science Academy classmate who admittedly teased him when they were teens back in Newark on a recent red carpet for "Creed III." Lore'l, now a . 'We hope the guilty parties hold a higher standard of morals and values as their rehabilitation continues. The harassment has also followed Deric Lostutter, the activist member of Anonymous who outed Richmond and Mays. So what happened in April, why haven't we heard about it, and are the two Steubenville rape cases related? All rights reserved. [36] Other school employees were reinstated after an investigation into the indictments.[37]. http://t.co/ANC56fz4 The Daily Beast reports that Nodianos and his family had received electronic threats, according to McNamara. On October8, 2013, the grand jury returned the first indictment of an adult in the case. The investigation remains open. The parents of Nodianos havent made a statement to the press, possibly because of the nature of the case being an ongoing investigation. If it ain't wet now it ain't never gonna be wet. [14] On March17, after the verdict he stated: "This has been a tragic ordeal. [5] In one text, Mays described the victim as "like a dead body" and "deader than Caylee Anthony" and in another he told the victim that a photo of her lying naked in a basement had been taken by him. Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group. Sign up and stay up to date with our daily newsletter. I hope this haunts Michael Nodianos for the rest of his life. Tweets and Instagram comments seemed to take joy in publicly shaming the victim, and they only inspired further ridicule of her. The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes. In January, charges of obstructing justice and tampering with evidence were dropped against ex-superintendent Mike McVey after he resigned. In texts and tweets exchanged between the attackers and their friends Steubenville High Schools revered athletes crowed over the girl, denigrated her online and made her a victim twice over. [4] While he did not sexually assault the victim himself, Nodianos, a scholarship student at Ohio State at the time news of the rape broke, received numerous threats for his comments, as did his family in Steubenville, and subsequently dropped out of school. $2.99 + $0.84 shipping. They have untilSeptember 25, 2017to charge me with a crime. If convicted on hacking charges, he could face up to 25 years in prison, which is more than eight times the three years collectively served by the rapists in this case. They peed on her. I freaked out, because I had had threats, she said. Michael Nodianos is no longer an official Buckeye. "There's no excuse or justification for the comments Michael made in the video and with some sober reflection he is ashamed and embarrassed to hear them himself," McNamara said. Bowers grew up in a small town in Ohio with values similar to those in Steubenville, where, she says, "most of the young men were never told 'No' and were culturally given the right to do whatever they wanted", something that she feels "needs to change". In a New Yorker article titled Trial By Twitter, Ariel Levy wrote, Fifteen years ago, Richmond and Mays would have escaped suspicion: Before smartphones and Twitter, rumors floated around high schools and then dissipated, often before adults knew what was real and what was adolescent imagination. Law professorThaddeus Hoffmeister, author of the bookSocial Media in the Courtroom, agreed: Without social media itwould havenever gone forward, he said. They will be charged as juveniles. The cost of that evidence was huge, though. In the statement, Johnson said, "As the father of two daughters and grandfather of four granddaughters, had something like what is being alleged here have happened to one of my loved ones, I would be demanding justice to the fullest extent of the law". #oprollredroll #occupysteubenville. Nodianos has been the subject of national media attention and public scorn since hackers from the Anonymous movement exposed a 12-minute video of him joking about the alleged kidnapping and rape of a 16-year-old girl at the hands of star football players from Steubenville, Ohio. "And is it really rape if you dont know if she wanted to or not? But when it was revealed that Nodianos attended Ohio State (and is wearing a OSU T-shirt in the video), the university quickly acted to defend its reputation. [41] A companion book of the same title, co-authored by Schwartzman and Nora Zelevansky, was published by Hachette Book Group in 2022. There's a level of accountability now through social media. Age: 56 years old. Picture Information. Nodianos was one of the targets of the hackers, whose Twitter handles are @KYAnonymous and @justbatcat. So, I inherited a son, too, he said. Sexual assault is a terrible act of aggression and violence, and our hearts go out to all victims. "You thought it was bad when that girl got raped at Palooza," he said. Critics blamed a macho football culture in which star player were given free rein to run amok. It would soon be broadcast on Good Morning America and dissected on Anderson Coopers CNN show. That's how you know she's dead, because someone pissed on her". You are also agreeing to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. In the early morning hours of August12, 2012, two high school football players, Trent Mays and Ma'lik Richmond, used their fingers to rape a 16-year-old girl from Weirton, West Virginia. Ohio teenager seen making crude jokes about a 16-year-old's rape. Also known as: Mr Michael J Nodianos, Mr Mike Nodianos, Mr Michael Nodianos, Michael Nodianos. [35] Three other adults were also indicted. Steubenville athlete Michael C. Nodianos recorded a video after the infamous August rape in which he alleged to the earlier incident. Malik Richmonds parents have both been vocal about the case. Its been two years since Steubenville, Ohio was all we talked about. She filed a report with Steubenville City Police last September and the case was handed over to federal agents, the Daily Mail first reported. This is a dead body." Palooza is the local nickname for Coach Joe Pierro's house, the Daily Mail reports. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. There is just thatone thing hanging over his head: I'm still under active investigation by the FBI, he said. On March17, 2013, Judge Thomas Lipps tried Mays and Richmond as juveniles and adjudicated them "delinquent beyond reasonable doubt", the juvenile equivalent of a guilty verdict. By entering your email and clicking Sign Up, you're agreeing to let us send you customized marketing messages about us and our advertising partners. The cost of that evidence was huge, though. As it relates to your specific question, the university is not at liberty to comment due to Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) regulations.". If you have a strong stomach check out Local Leaks.. Update: Mainstream media has picked up the story and I think that Anonymous done a fantastic service to the child who was kidnapped and raped as well as to the community as a whole.It's incredibly tragic that Jane Doe had to experience this (and it seems as though we will have several more in the coming days). Not everyone believes the 14-year-old girl: Although others ask why there has not been more attention given to the case: This week, the grand jury indicted four school officials, some on charges linked to the April rape case: Four Indicted In Steubenville Rape Cover-Up. Her family has faced harassment and threats, as well. As Newsweek first reported, in late November, months after two Steubenville High School football stars were convicted of rape, a grand jury indicted four school officials for failing to report another rape, allegedly of a 14-year-old girl. That might have been her final wish.". 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Alexandria Goddard, the crime blogger, not only received daily harassment for her involvement, she ultimately moved across the country a year ago out of fear of what her tormentors might do to her. Nodianos doesnt describe seeing an actual crime or attending the party where the alleged sexual assault occurred. Left to die alone like an animal: Parents who left 23-stone disabled daughter to die in her own filth are Holiday home owners in Scotland face new SNP tax hike under plans from front-runner to be new First Scotland should just self-identify as an independent country, one SNP member proposed. Michael is a resident of 2193 Summit Strt, Columbus, OH 43201-1391. http://t.co/ANC56fz4. 2012 sex crime in Steubenville, Ohio, United States, Post-assault treatment of sexual assault victims, "Ohio Revised Code Title [29] XXIX Crimes - Procedure - Chapter 2907: Sex Offences", "Ohio Teenagers Guilty in Rape That Social Media Brought to Light", "Rape Case Unfolds on Web and Splits City", "How Blogger Helped the Steubenville Rape Case Unfold Online", "Michael Nodianos Receives Threats, Drops Out Of Ohio State After Steubenville 'Rape' Video", "Life After the Steubenville Rape Trial: Are the Defendants' Lives Really Over? The jury met 18 times and heard from 123 witnesses. They're still embracing rape culture. Some see Richmonds return to normal life in Steubenville in a much more positive light, though: As Amanda Hess wrote on Slate, A juveniles rehabilitation and reentry into society is integral to preventing rape in the future., There is at least one clear example of a lesson not learned. When Did Woke Lose Its Meaning & How Do We Get It Back? Nodianos was admitted to Ohio State University on a Land Grant Opportunity Scholarship but he declined to return for the spring semester because his email account and the accounts of his family members had been attacked. There's a level of accountability now through social media. A statement from attorney Adam Neeman says Mays earned his release and is now 'eager to prove himself. There is every hint that she is moving on with her life perhaps none more powerful than Janes Facebook cover photo, which shows her standing in a bikini facing a body of water with her arms held open wide to the world. Off-the-record sources also say that the earlier alleged rape may have occurred in a football coachs house. Nodianos left Ohio State after the case drew national and local anger and the 18-year-old became a target of threats. Michael Nodianos attorney Dennis McNamara, in a press conference before it was revealed that Abdallas safety was at risk, said Nodianos has been harassed for his participation in the infamous 12-minute video. They couldn't prosecute these boys because you wouldn't have evidence, the evidence was on social media. In fact, it was the evidence on social media that helped the victim, who had little memory of the night, piece together what had happened to her. I feel bad for her but still. Yet another wrote, Some people deserved to be peed on, which Mays retweeted. In 2015, McVey agreed to resign from his post in exchange for not facing charges, never seek employment in Steubenville education again and avoid contact with anyone involved in the investigation or case. In November of last year, Matt Belardine, a former volunteer football coach at Steubenville High School and the host of the party that kicked off that fateful night, was arrested after getting in a fight with protesters at a police brutality rally in Scottsdale, AZ. Some have even been at the dormitory during the fall term looking for him.. Richmond haseven returned to the high school football field. Ms. Birden has voiced her opinions on the case on Facebook: I suppose its admirable in a sense that this mother wants to stick up for her son, but its also rather horrifying this mother wants to stick up for her son, considering he allegedly raped an unconscious girl. I ask you to let justice prevail, stated Richmond. Trenton has excelled during his rehabilitative process, and has earned the right to be released. Someone else posted photos of the campground at the end of the road that she lived on. In a video posted on the Internet, supposedly filmed shortly after the alleged attack, Nodianos repeatedly refers to the alleged rape victim as dead repeatedly. 9 Posters To Bring To Your Next Abortion Rights Rally, We Need More Moms in Politics. Evidence from the video strongly suggests Michael Nodianos knew a rape had taken place -- he repeatedly said "they raped her" in the video -- but he did NOT report the crime to the police or law enforcement, as required under Ohio law, Revised Code 2921.22. Email addresses. Nodianos has not been called as a witness in the case because he did not witness the reported rape, his attorney said. Nodianos is asked at one point what he would think if it was daughter being assaulted. We saw a lot less victim blaming; that speaks volumes about how the culture has shifted and how the mindset has shifted., Americano Media Wants to Be Fox News in Spanish, The Far Right Is Trying To Ban The Truth Heres What We Can Do To Stop Them. [2], In the days following the digital rape, according to The New York Times, Mays "seemed to try to orchestrate a cover-up, telling a friend, 'Just say she came to your house and passed out'" and pleading with the victim not to press charges. He said: Alexandria Goddard, the legal consultant who helped bring the August 2012 case to light, has written about the 14-year-old on her blog, Prinniefied. Jane Doe isnt speaking with the media, but her social media presence does tell a story. For example, several texts entered into evidence during the trial implied that Steubenville head coach Reno Saccoccia was trying to cover for the players, which led to nationwide outrage after he received a new contract as the district's administrative services director. A teenage girl, called Jane Doe for her protection, woke up one morning to find videos and images of herself all over social media. Lives have been forever changed because of the reprehensible acts committed by the young men involved. 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