Serena Williams 'blames' rape victim for incident
Published: 2013 June 19 12:00:49 (4522 Views)
Tennis star Serena Williams has apparently blamed the 16-year-old victim of the notorious Steubenville, Ohio, rape case for putting "herself in that position."
Williams made the claim, according to an upcoming Rolling Stone magazine profile, when she saw a TV report about the two Ohio football players being tossed in jail for the brutal sexual assault.
"Do you think it was fair, what they got?" Williams asked the Rolling Stone interviewer, shaking her head. "They did something stupid, but I don't know."
"I'm not blaming the girl," she said, "but if you're a 16-year-old and you're drunk like that, your parents should teach you: Don't take drinks from other people. She's 16, why was she that drunk where she doesn't remember?"
Williams, 31 and currently the top-ranked female tennis player in the world, went on to say that what happened to the girl "could have been much worse."
"She's lucky," Williams said. "Obviously I don't know, maybe she wasn't a virgin, but she shouldn't have put herself in that position, unless they slipped her something, then that's different."
17-year-old quarterback Trent Mays, and wide receiver Ma'Lik Richmond, 16 — were convicted in March of taking advantage of the girl at a series of booze-fueled parties last summer.
Mays took lurid photos of the victim that were later posted on social media sites, sparking national outrage.
For this, Mays was hit with a minimum sentence of two years in a juvenile correctional facility. Richmond got a minimum of one year in the same facility.
But both could remain jailed until they turn 21. And both could be branded registered sex offenders for the rest of their lives.
- NYdaily
Williams made the claim, according to an upcoming Rolling Stone magazine profile, when she saw a TV report about the two Ohio football players being tossed in jail for the brutal sexual assault.
"Do you think it was fair, what they got?" Williams asked the Rolling Stone interviewer, shaking her head. "They did something stupid, but I don't know."
"I'm not blaming the girl," she said, "but if you're a 16-year-old and you're drunk like that, your parents should teach you: Don't take drinks from other people. She's 16, why was she that drunk where she doesn't remember?"
Williams, 31 and currently the top-ranked female tennis player in the world, went on to say that what happened to the girl "could have been much worse."
"She's lucky," Williams said. "Obviously I don't know, maybe she wasn't a virgin, but she shouldn't have put herself in that position, unless they slipped her something, then that's different."
17-year-old quarterback Trent Mays, and wide receiver Ma'Lik Richmond, 16 — were convicted in March of taking advantage of the girl at a series of booze-fueled parties last summer.
Mays took lurid photos of the victim that were later posted on social media sites, sparking national outrage.
For this, Mays was hit with a minimum sentence of two years in a juvenile correctional facility. Richmond got a minimum of one year in the same facility.
But both could remain jailed until they turn 21. And both could be branded registered sex offenders for the rest of their lives.
- NYdaily
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