Mr. Mays and Mr. Richmond were rising stars in the football program, and some Steubenville residents have complained about a culture that protects the team. Others say the girl, her supporters and the news media have blown the episode out of proportion. Lawyers for the two boys, who could be sent to juvenile jail until they are 21 if they are found guilty, have denied the charges and said that any sex was consensual. 
 
 The girl testified Saturday that after leaving a party around midnight on Aug. 11 with the two football players, she woke up the next morning in the basement living room of another house. She was naked, she recalled, with no idea how she got there or where she was, and Mr. Mays, Mr. Richmond and another boy were surrounding her. The girl said that the boys put her clothes on a table, but she could not find her phone, her underwear, her earrings or her shoes. 
 
 “I was embarrassed and scared, and I did not know what to think because I could not remember anything,” she testified. She said that over the next two days she pieced together what had happened with the help of friends who showed her a video posted on YouTube and a picture that had circulated of her in the basement lying naked. 
 
 Earlier on Saturday, two former friends of the girl testified for the defense that she had a reputation as a liar. An expert defense witness also testified that the girl was not likely to have consumed enough alcohol to pass out that night but that she did drink enough to have a memory lapse, implying she could have consented to having sex but did not remember doing so. 
 
 On Friday, one friend and classmate testified that he saw Mr. Mays penetrate the girl with his fingers in the back seat of a car, while another student testified that Mr. Richmond did the same while she was in the basement. Both students testified after being granted immunity from prosecution. 
 
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 When it was her turn on the witness stand, the girl, guided by the prosecutor Marianne Hemmeter, testified for two hours about how she discovered how she was treated that night, and how she came to figure out that Mr. Mays was only pretending to care about her in an effort to try to save himself. 
 
 She said an increasingly frantic Mr. Mays repeatedly sent her text messages the next day, pleading with her not to press charges and saying that he feared his football career would be hurt. 
 
 “He was just, like, freaking out,” the girl testified Saturday. “He kept asking, ‘Are you going to tell the police?’ He was trying to get me not to tell anyone.” 
 
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 In one text message, she said, Mr. Mays admitted taking the picture of her naked in the basement but said that he did not know how the photograph had been circulated. He said the picture showed his semen on top of her, the result of what he said had been a consensual sexual act. 
 
 At one point, Mr. Mays, who maintained that he had taken care of the girl while she was drunk, appeared to grow increasingly frustrated that she refused to reassure him. He told her in a text message, “I’ll just never do anything nice for you again.” 
 
 Later, in the final series of text messages they ever exchanged, Mr. Mays told her, “I’m about to get kicked off my football team.” 
 
 The girl replied: “The more you bring up football, the more pissed I get, because that’s like all you care about.” 
 
 Mr. Mays texted back: “You know that’s not all I care about, but that needs to be taken care of first.” ||||| Ma'lik Richmond, 16, left, talks defense attorney Walter Madison during testimony at Richmond and co-defendant Trent Mays (not shown) trial on rape charges in juvenile court on Thursday, March 14, 2013... (Associated Press) 
 
 A teenager who was granted immunity from prosecution has testified he saw a friend perform a sexual act on a 16-year-old girl after a party in eastern Ohio last summer. 
 
 The judge granted 17-year-old Mark Cole immunity Friday in Jefferson County juvenile court before he testified at the trial of two high school football players charged with raping the West Virginia girl. 
 
 Testimony from three teenage boys who watched the alleged attacks is a crucial part of the state's evidence because the girl says she doesn't remember what happened. 
 
 Cole testified that he recorded part of the encounter but later deleted the video because he realized he'd done "something stupid and wrong." 
 
 The two teenage defendants, Trent Mays and Ma'Lik Richmond, maintain their innocence in the Steubenville (STOO'-behn-vihl) case. 
 
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 Ohio prosecutors prepared to call key eyewitnesses in their case against two high school football players charged with raping a 16-year-old girl after an alcohol-fueled party last summer. 
 
 The testimony of three teenage boys who watched the alleged attacks is a crucial part of the state's evidence, since the girl has said she has no memory of the event. Two of the boys took video and photographic images of the alleged attacks, then later deleted them. 
 
 Friday's testimony will follow evidence introduced Thursday in the form of sometimes graphic text messages in which one of the defendants, Trent Mays, gave differing accounts of what happened between him and the girl. At one point Mays appeared to enlist the help of a friend in whose basement one of the alleged attacks happened to cover up the event. 
 
 In other messages introduced by the prosecution, the girl begged a friend for information about the night, saying she had no memory of the evening and feared she might have been drugged. 
 
 "Swear to God I don't remember doing anything with them," the girl wrote to the friend who authorities say saw the assaults. 
 
 "I wasn't being a slut. They were taking advantage of me," she also wrote to the same boy. 
 
 Mays, 17, and Ma'Lik Richmond, 16, are charged with digitally penetrating the West Virginia girl, first in the back seat of a moving car after a party Aug. 11 and then in the basement of a house. Mays also is charged with illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material. The two maintain their innocence. 
 
 Prosecutors insist the girl was too drunk to consent to sex, while defense attorneys have portrayed her as someone who was intoxicated but still in control of her actions. Witnesses have said she was so drunk she threw up and had trouble walking and speaking. 
 
 In one text after the alleged assault, the girl told a boy who prosecutors say watched the attack, "Wait, I think I was drugged. I know I have no memory from after I left," the party. 
 
 Special Judge Thomas Lipps is hearing the case without a jury. He told participants Thursday he would keep the trial in session well into the evening and through the weekend. 
 
 The case has riveted the small city of Steubenville amid allegations that more students should have been charged and led to questions about the influence of the local football team, a source of a pride in a community that suffered massive job losses with the collapse of the steel industry. 
 
 The texts introduced Thursday in juvenile court also included ones in which Mays admitted that he digitally penetrated the girl. In other messages, he told friends he'd participated in a different, mutual sex act with the girl. 
 
 He also sent messages to his friends to try to get them to gloss over what happened that night. In a text to a boy who lives in the house where the second attack is said to have happened, Mays wrote, "Just say she came to your house and passed out." 
 
 In another message that prosecutors said Mays sent to the girl's father, he said, "this is all a big misunderstanding." 
 
 Prosecutors also presented texts sent by Mays to friends in which he suggested Steubenville football coach Reno Saccoccia would let the players involved off lightly. 
 
 The coach "...took care of it," Mays said in one text introduced by prosecutors. 
 
 "Like he was joking about it so I'm not worried," Mays said in another text. 
 
 Saccoccia has not commented about the allegations, and Steubenville school officials have refused to make him available. Phone and email messages were left after hours for Superintendent Michael McVey. The district has promised to boost education programs about bullying, date rape and sexual harassment and add training for faculty and staff members. 
 
 Additional testimony Thursday came from Sean McGhee, a former Steubenville high school student who said he considered the girl his friend and said she was extremely drunk the night of the party. He said he was upset after hearing about the alleged assault and texted Mays. 
 
 Dissatisfied with Mays' account, he texted back: "I saw the pix, bro. Don't lie." 
 
 Walter Madison, an attorney for Richmond, challenged McGhee's account, saying he may have exaggerated in his mind the girl's intoxication because of his anger over the allegations. 
 
 Authorities said they collected 17 cellphones in their investigation. The evidence they yielded is considered crucial to prosecutors' case against the boys because of photos taken that evening. 
 
 If convicted, Mays and Richmond could be held in a juvenile jail until they turn 21. 
 
 The Associated Press normally does not identify minors charged in juvenile court, but Mays and Richmond have been widely identified in news coverage, and their names have been used in open court. 
 
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– A judge has found two boys guilty in the rape of a 16-year-old girl that rocked the small Ohio town of Steubenville, reports the AP. Judge Thomas Lipps ruled that Steubenville High School football players Trent Mays, 17, and Ma'Lik Richmond, 16, are guilty of digitally penetrating the girl after a booze-fueled party in August. A state prosecutor asked for a harsh sentence for the boys, citing an "absolute lack of remorse" the pair had demonstrated. Loud sobs were heard in the courtroom after the verdict was read. Both boys apologized; Richmond broke down sobbing as he stood to approach the victim. Mays will be jailed for at least two years; Richmond will be jailed for one year. Depending on their behavior, they could remain there until they are 21. The verdict comes a day after the girl herself took the stand, reports the New York Times, testifying that she didn't remember what happened in the six hours before she awoke naked in a basement with Mays, Richmond, and another boy around her. “I was embarrassed and scared, and I did not know what to think because I could not remember anything,” she said, adding that the boys put her clothes on a table when she asked for them. In the following days, she says, she figured out what had happened and said that Mays started to get scared, texting her constantly. “He was just, like, freaking out,” she said. “He kept asking, ‘Are you going to tell the police?’ He was trying to get me not to tell anyone.” Another boy testified Friday that he filmed part of the assault on his cell phone, only to delete it the next day.