03-13-2013, 04:46 PM
A drunken girl was 'treated like a toy' by two Ohio footballers 'raped her on a night of degradation, humiliation and violation', a court was told today.
Speaking at the first day of the trial of Steubenville high school football stars Trent Mays, 17, and Ma’lik Richmond, 16, prosecutor Marianne Hemmeter said she was:'Somebody too impaired to say no, somebody who was too impaired to say stop.'
A witness to the moment the now infamous Instagram image of the Ohio rape ‘victim’ was taken also revealed how the accused trod on the 16-year-old girl’s hair as her head lolled lifelessly back.
The girl broke down in tears as she recalled: ‘I picked her hair up and I told them they needed to carry her a better way.’
She made no sound or objection as Mays then hoisted her over his shoulder in a fireman’s lift.
This was just one detail in a night of ‘degradation, humiliation and violation’ as depicted by Ms Hemmeter.
Mays and Richmond are accused of assaulting the girl in a basement and in a car by using their hands during a night out to celebrate a victory on August 12 last year. Mays also is charged with illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material.
She has set out the State’s case as one that hinges, not on the issues of consent or force, but ‘only on the defendants’ knowledge of her substantial intoxication and their exploitation of that when they treated her like a toy.’
Hemmeter claimed that Mays and Richmond held the girl's hair as she vomited in the street.
She went on to say: 'You will hear witnesses testify that they saw Trent Mays try to put his penis in her mouth, but because her mouth wouldn't open, he abandoned that attempt.'
She added that witnesses will also testify that they saw Richmond inserting his fingers into her private parts while she was motionless on a basement couch.
Speaking to Judge Lipps at the Jefferson County court, in Steubenville, Ms Hemmeter said: ‘You have to piece all this together much in the same way as [the victim] had to piece this together.’
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Speaking at the first day of the trial of Steubenville high school football stars Trent Mays, 17, and Ma’lik Richmond, 16, prosecutor Marianne Hemmeter said she was:'Somebody too impaired to say no, somebody who was too impaired to say stop.'
A witness to the moment the now infamous Instagram image of the Ohio rape ‘victim’ was taken also revealed how the accused trod on the 16-year-old girl’s hair as her head lolled lifelessly back.
The girl broke down in tears as she recalled: ‘I picked her hair up and I told them they needed to carry her a better way.’
She made no sound or objection as Mays then hoisted her over his shoulder in a fireman’s lift.
This was just one detail in a night of ‘degradation, humiliation and violation’ as depicted by Ms Hemmeter.
Mays and Richmond are accused of assaulting the girl in a basement and in a car by using their hands during a night out to celebrate a victory on August 12 last year. Mays also is charged with illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material.
She has set out the State’s case as one that hinges, not on the issues of consent or force, but ‘only on the defendants’ knowledge of her substantial intoxication and their exploitation of that when they treated her like a toy.’
Hemmeter claimed that Mays and Richmond held the girl's hair as she vomited in the street.
She went on to say: 'You will hear witnesses testify that they saw Trent Mays try to put his penis in her mouth, but because her mouth wouldn't open, he abandoned that attempt.'
She added that witnesses will also testify that they saw Richmond inserting his fingers into her private parts while she was motionless on a basement couch.
Speaking to Judge Lipps at the Jefferson County court, in Steubenville, Ms Hemmeter said: ‘You have to piece all this together much in the same way as [the victim] had to piece this together.’
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