You can’t make this shit up:
CNN broke the news on Sunday of a guilty verdict in a rape case in Steubenville, Ohio by lamenting that the “promising” lives of the rapists had been ruined, but spent very little time focusing on how the 16-year-old victim would have to live with what was done to her.
Judge Thomas Lipps announced on Sunday that Trent Mays, 17, and Ma’lik Richmond, 16, would be given a maximum sentence after being found guilty of raping a 16-year-old girl while she was unconscious. Richmond could be released from a juvenile rehabilitation facility by the age of 21 and Mays could be incarcerated until the age of 24.
CNN’s Candy Crowley began her breaking news report by showing Lipps handing down the sentence and telling CNN reporter Poppy Harlow that she “cannot imagine” how emotional the sentencing must have been.
Harlow explained that it had been “incredibly difficult” to watch “as these two young men — who had such promising futures, star football players, very good students — literally watched as they believed their life fell apart.”
Yeah, never mind the victim here. At least she still isn’t in jail, amirite?! It’s not like they’re being punished much too lightly for a heinous crime or something.
Oh, wait.. And notice how it’s “their lives are ruined” versus “they ruined their lives”
Journalism: You’re doing it absolutely, heinously wrong.
CNN grieves that guilty verdict ruined ‘promising’ lives of Steubenville rapists: