<p>Here is a good link - I am so furious.</p>
<p>[Savannah</a> Dietrich can’t remove county attorney from sex assault case, judge rules | Cincinnati.com | cincinnati.com](<a href=“Cincinnati News, Sports and Things to Do | Cincinnati Enquirer”>Cincinnati News, Sports and Things to Do | Cincinnati Enquirer)</p>
<p>On top of everything else, the “prosecutor” is an alumni and contributor to the boys’ school. They were allowed to go on college visits pending sentencing.</p>
<p>It’s also been reported that the boys thought the whole thing was “funny.”</p>
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<p>Apparently the victim believes that the photos were posted on the internet.</p>
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<p>[Savannah</a> Dietrich Doesn’t Face Contempt Charge For Revealing Names Of Sexual Attackers](<a href=“HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost”>HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost)</p>
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<p>There is little chance the feds will get involved. </p>
<p>The instances of light sentences being given out (as in this case) is are more infrequent then the instances of harsh sentences being given out. It’s too bad people do not get as upset about the extremely harsh sentences being given out, but then again most folks do not care about criminals. Maybe that’s a good thing after all.</p>
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<p><a href=“http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20120830/NEWS01/308300056[/url]”>http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20120830/NEWS01/308300056</a></p>
<p>Notice that Frey and Zehnder not only thought it was “funny” while they were raping her and photographing their crime, but they continued to think it was funny afterwards, as, for months, they kept showing the pictures to their friends. Somehow, the lack of humorousness of their crime only dawned on them when they were arrested.</p>
<p>"The instances of light sentences being given out (as in this case) is are more infrequent then the instances of harsh sentences being given out. "</p>
<p>I assume you mean more frequent (says the Queen of typos). In any event, I will try. I suspect the publicity may make a difference. And I will not let the names Will Frey and Austin Zehnder be forgotten. They were supposed to graduate in 2013. Time will tell.</p>
<p>I worry that either Frey or Zehnder will be accepted at, and enroll in, my son’s college. If so, that would be the last time the college ever got a penny from me, and I’ve been generous so far.</p>
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<p>My guess is that the only hope for a selective college in the near future was to get a deal that allowed for expungement of record. While that had been offered by the prosecutor, I can only hope the public uproar will kill that. I think they were supposed to graduate in 2013, and while they have been thrown out of their private HS, at least one is not in school (pending his parent’s lawsuit that he should not be put in the district alternative school – where presumably the rest of the juvenile delinquents go). The other may be in public school somewhere, or may have had enough credits to enroll in college somewhere.</p>
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<p>No, I meant infrequent. The point is that crime is treated harshly in America compared to the rest of the world. We lock up people in greater number and keep them in prison much longer than most other countries. Light sentences are the exception not the rule.</p>
<p>So Razor, if you think the sentence is unusually light, what makes you think that the Feds wont look at it? They can charge with violations of federal child pornography.</p>
<p>I haven’t researched it, but I think it’s highly doubtful that that judge had the legal right to impose a gag order on Savannah Dietrich not to say anything about the incident. She wasn’t an attorney, she wasn’t a defendant, and I don’t believe she was technically even a party. Not to mention that the purported gag order went beyond what had happened in the court room and supposedly prohibited her from saying anything about her independent knowledge of what had happened to her (rather than what she had learned from the proceeding). I just don’t believe that any contempt order based on that could ultimately have been upheld.</p>
<p>Donna, its not clear that the judge did issue a gag order (or if she did, she is backtracting now). The judge’s current order says that she (the judge) never did, just issued the standard juvi order. The only issue is whether the girl had the right to disclose the plea issued. In any event, the attorneys for at least one of the boys, who had wanted an apology or contriteness FROM THE VICTIM, gave it up in the face of the public outcry.</p>
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<p>I suppose anything is possible. If there is a federal prosecutor trying to make a name for him or herself so as to run for office on a later occasion, this may be a good way to get attention. On the other hand, are these boys really pornographers of the type that the feds are interested in putting in federal prison? I don’t think so. The feds are more interested in child porn networks and shutting down the child porn industry. Most federal and state prosecutors have a pretty good relationship and are not interested in upstaging each other. There are always exceptions to that but I have not see anything to suggest the feds view the state prosecutors with suspicion in this case.</p>
<p>Razor, time will tell.</p>
<p>Once boys, even if boys with great GPAs and ECs from a top private school, put this stuff out on the internet, which are alleged to have done, the pictures could have been downloaded by anyone.</p>
<p>The girl and/or her family are also protesting that the “prosecutor” is a major supporter /fundraiser of the HS he attended, suprise surprise the same one that the boys were star athletes at. I dont know if that matters or that the parents of at least one of the boys are very well off (the other is not poor). I think that even if the feds are thinking about getting involved, they will wait till the they see the state sentence.</p>
<p>Right now, for all the boys’ high priced talent, the girl seems to be winning the PR battle.</p>
<p>If they did publish the photos on the Internet, it should be relatively easy to find out and locate the site, even if deleted. Then I wouldn’t be shocked to see her file a civil suit against them for invasion of privacy which would strengthen her case.</p>
<p>“He’s had to move,” David Mejia, the attorney for one of the attackers, told The Huffington Post. “He has lost all the potential that was there. He was attending high school and was kicked out. He was on course to a scholarship to an Ivy League school to play sports and that may be jeopardized. He’s in therapy. He’s just overwhelmed and devastated by what started from the conduct of this young girl saying false things as she did.”</p>
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<p>“I was hoping she would even have some remorse or an apology to give. That didn’t happen,” Mejia said Monday on ABC’s “Nightline.”</p>
<p>Unreal.</p>
<p>This from the other boy’s attorney</p>
<p>Chris Klein, an attorney for one of the boys, said publicizing their names may create problems for them in the future.</p>
<p>“There’s always that possibility and in any type of scenario like this you run that risk,” he said. “Now whether both these boys can overcome those hurdles, it’s too early to determine that.”</p>
<p>Klein said it’s possible, but unlikely, that prosecutors would make the same contempt charge against Dietrich. Both sides will still be bound by the confidentiality of the juvenile court proceedings.</p>
<p>“I think her behavior will dictate whether it’s the end of it or not,” Klein said. “If all the parties abide by the confidentiality of juvenile court, then I think that’s the end of it.”</p>
<p>From [Savannah</a> Dietrich Doesn’t Face Contempt Charge For Revealing Names Of Sexual Attackers](<a href=“HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost”>HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost)</p>
<p>If they emailed the photos, that would also be actionable as spreading child pornography. I don’t know if they did.</p>
<p>Cardinal, my understanding is the boys phones (want to bet smart phones, with email capability) are in the custody of the police. I am not certain the feds knew of any emailing of pornography, until relatively recently if at all.</p>
<p>Isn’t David Meija, an attorney and an officer of the court, liable for sanctions for calling Ms. Dietrich a liar when she told the truth? She said that Will Frey and Austin Zehnder raped her. They did.</p>
<p>And as to Frey or Zehnder being all upset because Dietrich told the world they raped her, cry me a river.</p>