Anonymous Hits Steubenville Football Team, Demands Apology For Gang Rape
Steubenville, OH – Anonymous has warned a Steubenville football team that it will release personal information, including names and Social Security numbers, if a public apology is not made for the alleged gang rape of a 16-year-old girl.
Hackers identifying themselves as “KnightSec,” an arm of Anonymous, took down the website of the Steubenville High School Big Red football team last weekend and posted an Anonymous-style warning, complete with Guy Fawkes mask and a computerized voice.
The attack on the football team’s site comes after a New York Times story reported on the alleged gang rape of a drunk 16-year-old girl in Steubenville. According to prosecutors, the girl was gang raped over a period of several hours by a number of star football players. From the Times story:
“[By August 12] some people in and around Steubenville had gotten word that the night of fun on August 11 might have taken a grim turn, and that members of the Steubenville High football team might have been involved. Twitter posts, videos and photographs circulated by some who attended the nightlong set of parties suggested that an unconscious girl had been sexually assaulted over several hours while others watched. She even might have been urinated on.”
Two 16-year-old Big Red players, Trent Mays and Ma’lik Richmond, have since been arrested on charges that they raped the girl. Both teens will attend a hearing in February. However, many in the close-knit Steubenville community have defended the players, and claim the rape victim is attempting to bring down their beloved team.
There’s little doubt about which side KnightSec, and by extension Anonymous, is taking in the matter. The notice left by hackers on the Big Red site stated:
“The town of Steubenville has been good at keeping this quiet and their star football team protected.”
A notice on the team’s site now reads:
“As you are probably aware, this web site was recently hacked into illegally numerous times by a terrorist group. The outrageous claims they made while controlling this site were totally false, completely absurd, and totally unfounded. They were clearly both libelous and slanderous, and were not even intended to reveal truth, but rather simply to get media attention and terrorize the Steubenville community. Innocent people have been greatly harmed.”
You can watch the warning issued by Anonymous to the Steubenville football team in the clip below:
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Dec 29, 2012
Glad to see Anonymous once again doing something to solve a problem while others try to sweep it away. It's nice to know that not everyone in this country has been neutered.
Dec 29, 2012
I have no faith in the American justice system. I do have faith in Anonymous. Keep it up.
Dec 29, 2012
just get the right people. don't ruin somebody's life that is innocent but fry the little bastards that raped the young girl.
Dec 29, 2012
The Stupidville rapists and the town are in need of a through state police or FBi investigation.
Dec 29, 2012
anonymous, you are a pussy. guess she learned her lesson about underage drinking didn't she?
Dec 29, 2012
OK, lets get one thing straight. Non-consentual sex is rape. If you're standing in a room watching someone who is passed out, getting gang raped, and the only thing you do with your phone is take pictures? You need to go to jail. I have 2 daughters and a sister. I guaran-damn-tee you that if that was my daughter or my sister, I would excercise my 2nd amendment rights on anyone in that room who thought it was a great thing to gang rape a 16 year old girl. How hard would it have been to step out of that room and call police, or some form of authority figure, who would do more than just sweep this under the rug?
Dec 29, 2012
OK, lets get one thing straight. Non-consentual sex is rape. If you're standing in a room watching someone who is passed out, getting gang raped, and the only thing you do with your phone is take pictures? You need to go to jail. I have 2 daughters and a sister. I guaran-damn-tee you that if that was my daughter or my sister, I would excercise my 2nd amendment rights on anyone in that room who thought it was a great thing to gang rape a 16 year old girl. How hard would it have been to step out of that room and call police, or some form of authority figure, who would do more than just sweep this under the rug?
Dec 30, 2012
Amen! It's a sad day when a room full of people don't consider the possibility that they will one day father a daughter. It's even more tragic when a town fails to raise and guide ts children. What a disgrace to the history of Big Red, Steubenville, and all daughters everywhere.
Dec 30, 2012
Go Anonymous!
Dec 30, 2012
I have to say that I'm personally glad anonymous exists.
Dec 31, 2012
Flood The Ohio High School Athletic Association's Email To Have Steubenville High Coach Sacoccia Reprimanded Or Relieved Of Duty!
http://www.ohsaa.org/general/about/whocontact.html
Dec 31, 2012
Contact The Ohio High School Athletic Association & DEMAND Coach Sacoccia be FIRED!
http://www.ohsaa.org/general/about/whocontact.html
Dec 31, 2012
Justice will be done but don't have it be over done, heck the world knows and Steubenville now will forever have a bad reputation for this. More than ever it will be branded corrupt.
Jan 1, 2013
ANYONE WHO KNEW ABOUT THIS AND KEPT IT HUSH HUSH NEEDS TO BE PUNISHED….THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!
Jan 3, 2013
They should be in jail & let them get raped!
Jan 3, 2013
These boy's should be in jail & let them get raped behind bars!
Jan 3, 2013
We all need Anonymous b/c the justice system is just for a few.
Jan 3, 2013
I love you Anonymous, keep on fighting the good fight!
Jan 4, 2013
Cudo to anonymous once again!
Jan 4, 2013
God Bless You Anonymous.
Jan 4, 2013
Remember, remember, to soon and often we forget the victims. Entitlement is keen in these day, those seen as privileged are given free reign. Anonymous your effort should be praised, too few stick up for the little guy. It brings me great sorrow to see a town rally behind monsters, just because they are the select few. Justice for all, and it shouldn't matter if you can throw or catch a ball.
Jan 5, 2013
The BIG FAT MAGGOTS of Steubenville are known across America for what they are: FILTH!
Jan 5, 2013
Done, and get rid of the fellow traveler, your so called Police Chief. All the Big Fat Maggots must be thrown off all sports teams, or the PRIVILEGE to play removed by the state or district. The MAGGOTS must pay.
Jan 5, 2013
Thank god for anonymous. The American citizen needs them
Jan 7, 2013
I am the father of 3 boys. if I found my boys had winessed this and done nothing about it, I would beat them within an inch of there lives, and I'm not normally a "hands's on" type of dad. maybe some of these kids dads already did that. especially if they were sending pictures and texts about the event. there is nothing funny about ANYONE getting abused and assaulted the way this girl allegedly was. I've been fired up about this since I heard about it last week. I gaurantee you that if this happened to one of my teenage neices,….well you know what I mean. GOD BLESS PEOPLE LIKE ANONYMOUS.
Jan 7, 2013
I am the father of 3 boys. If I ever found out my boys had witnessed a drunk girl being carried around at a party and had not called the authorities, myself, or another parent, not to mention the ones that veiwed the assault(s), or if they had touched that poor girl, I'd take away every priveledge they had, ground them til thye were 25, and beat them soundly about the head and shoulders! what is the world coming to, where dozens of people can think this kind of event is funny, and to call that girl a whore and stuff. I don't care if she's the most sexually active girl in the county, NO ONE deserves what they did to her on the basis of a poor reputation. there's no provision for that in the rape laws. HEY STEUBENVILLE, WAKE UP AND TEACH YOUR BOYS THAT THIS SHIT IS WRONG.
Jan 8, 2013
We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Expect us.
Jan 8, 2013
I'm so angered by the response on the team site. I can't believe that even after the video footage of this horrible act went public they can still sit in denial. Anonymous has once again made it so that justice will be served. They are not a bunch of criminals. They use those really big brains they have for good. Its a sad world we live in when all you have to do is play a sport to receive and get out of jail free card. My heart goes out to this girl and her family.