Steubenville Rape Case

We had a great discussion in class about the rape that might or might not have occurred in Steubenville. There are so many issues that go along with these kinds of cases.
1) The party was at a Coach's house where there was obviously a nonexistent-low supervision level
2) There was alcohol at the party
3) There was no physical evidence that the girl had been raped
4) The whole fiasco was trending on the internet through many different mediums: video, pictures, statuses, etc.

Reading the article about the "Institutional Rape Tolerance" was hard for me to do. I saw colleges listed where people got raped and one of them was a school that I was highly considering to attend for the next four years of my education. It pains me that even at highly respected places, bad things are happening. They should not be happening at all, but you would think that these people have decent heads on their shoulders. Like the Steubenville boys. I don't think that the other players on the team should get penalized for not standing up for the girl. I think they SHOULD have stood up for her, but I don't think they can get punished for not standing up for her. Even if the boys did not rape the girl, they still should get in trouble for taking advantage of her in other ways. She was clearly unable to give consent to anything and that shuold be the ONLY reason the boys are getting in trouble. As for the online world, I think that the people posting things might have been overexaggerating because teenagers, and people in general, tend to do that. We take words like "rape" and turn them into casual things like "That test just raped me." This is a terrible habit to get into, but the court must realize that the posts online could have been false, especially if someone was posting about the rape when that person posting wasn't even at the party where the rape occured. It just is a huge mess and I feel badly for everyone involved, because at the end of the day it is about trust and evidence. And since there is not much evidence, there has to be trust gained somewhere and therefore trust lost somewhere. I'm curious about this and intend to follow the story closely in order to see how things turn out for the girl and the two "rapists" that took advantage of her. I hope this never happens in our area because I can't even imagine how messy things would get between the school board, parents, and friends.