Here's to hoping they all got ass-violated in jail!

I think the girl after lying to her parents as to where she was spending the night, coupled with the fact she had the previous night slept with each of the defendants, knew what she was putting herself in. Even her friends said she was naked in the pool with another boy the night before. I don't agree with taking advantage of any person who is not in there senses, however I don't call this rape. I call it lewd acts, however the girl should take part of the blame. She didn't report it to the police the next day, she didn't say anything until her parents and her had to discuss her sexual activities and that their 16 year old wasn't only not a virgin prior to July 4th, but she had been sexually active for quite some time. I feel these boys deserve punishment, however not the deep sentance they received. I feel the 16 year old should not have lied and gone over there and started drinking with 3 boys. She is also discusting to me in that she acts as if she is "innocent". I am a rape survior too, but I didn't put myself into that situation. How can any of the players in this ordeal live with themselves, the boys as well as the girl.

She is nothing but a piece of trash.. she asked for what she got but had "buyers remorse".. money grubbing slut.. I hope she pays for the 3 years she took away from them!

I would just like to say that I personally grew up with Keith Spann. He was my older brothers best friend. He was always the good kid. I do not know what got into him. He grew up next door to me in the city of Pomona California. then moved with his grandma. forgot the city. but long story short, i miss the old Keith and wished he never made that stupid mistake =[

Rape is wrong, it doesn't matter what she was, who she was or what she had previously done, when you say no or our uncocsious it is wrong.

They should have been locked away for 5+years without parole, It really upsets me that hey she was a s**T she deserved it, no one deserves to be raped. Any woman who wishes rape upon another woman should be raped because you one hell of a hypocrit!

I'm just now reading about this case and I find it absolutely INSANE that people won't simply admit that it's wrong to engage in sexual activity with someone who is UNCONSCIOUS!

It really frightens me to realize that people genuinely believe that some people's bodies (their own perhaps?) should be respected, but other people's (whoever they deem) need not be respected in the least.

I was always taught to treat people the way I would want to be treated. True, that sometimes means treating people better than they treat themselves but a little more of that would make the world such a better place, don't you think?

I say this girl was as guilty as these guys. This is a clear example of a slut who puts out for 3 guys & says nothing until her folks find out. There's no question she was forced into this by her father. It's amazing it got this far, though I shouldn't be surprised at our legal system with its celebrity hungry & career advancing prosecutors who'll do anything to get their names in front of the public. Also the incredible hypocrisy of a society that laughs at those recommending abstinence for teens while promoting all kinds of sexual "freedom", then having the nerve to lower the boom on kids when they act out the very stuff they see in front of them every day, with the approval of the very state that wishes to lock them up. Incredible. None of these kids should have gone to prison. I don't know how this girl sleeps at night. As for their abuse in prison, it didn't happen. Pleasant Valley is specifically for those inmates least likely to be violent. Those who wanted this to happen, well, they are worse than any rapist themselves. Another morality play from the land of fruits & nuts. Also this girl was busted for methampohetamine possession. yeah, real innocent.

JJ, you're one sick apologist fuck.

I just saw this on tv and I can't help but wonder one thing. She drove there at midnight. And then the story on TruTV later said that one of the boys drove her home the next morning. Why would that be? My only guess is because they knew she still was not conscious enough to even drive the 20 minutes home. That right there raises a red flag.

The other thing that bothers me about this is that on July 4th, Mr. Haidl (the father) came out and told the boys they needed to break it up and they said yep no problem just finishing up this game. And yet the party when on hours later. The next day nothing was ever said about the alcohol consumption or the lack of it remaining? And so at midnight July 5th/6th, again the father asked if they were going home and was told yes and again he turned his back and the boys disrepected him and this is what happened. So obviously the father was not at all in control of his son and even may have allowed the alcohol consumption at home. If these boys can't even respect their own parents and lie to them how do you expect them to respect a woman whom they only know through casual sex?

It does not matter what Jane Doe did prior to this night. She should not have been the one whom was on trial. She was the victim but as always, defending lawyers always try the victim because that's easier than defending the accusations of their client.

I agree with Sandy. In fact, I believe that the father and step-mother should have had charges brought against them as well.

In addition, JJ, you are a moron in the strictest sense of the workd 'MORON'.

You got to have a very stupid daughter to agree to meet with three young men alone... I guess who ever wrote the title of this article, know already that she have to lock her own.

this girl has no morals for allowing these three boys to go to jail for this. she clearly went through with it and in my opinion was just embarressed once the video was released, as anyone would be. but for her to lie and allow these three boys to have their lifes ruined by one, going to jail, and secondly, be known as sex offenders for the rest of their lifes for a mistake that was made when they were all 17 - 16 years old. karma will come back and bite her in the ass, while society and these three men sit back, watch, and laugh!

To anyone who blames the victim: I hope that while you are sleeping, someone repeatedly shoves a snapple bottle in your rectum, or maybe even a baseball bat. Since you are already sexually active, it's ok to violate you, right? Your shorts were really short so you wanted it, huh? The parents of the guilty make me sick. This girl did not deserve any of this, and it is NEVER ok to have sex with someone who is UNCONSCIOUS. Societal double standards are so messed up, I am sick of hearing girls being labeled sluts for having sex whereas boys get reinforced. Congratulations posters for perpetuating this sick ideology.

If the girl was such a slut, why did the three morons feel the need to get her so unconsciously drunk before filming their "sex"?

For all of you pathetic rapist defenders on here, please explain why all three morons CONFESSED TO THEIR SEX CRIMES IN OPEN COURT before they were sent away to prison.

Oh, and one more thing, what kind of douche bags shove a Snapple bottle, apple juice can, lit cigarette and pool stick into a girl's vagina and rectum when she's passed out?

Dirty Slut ... Anyone in their right mind could see that this was NOT RAPE. Lewd Yes ! Dirty Yes ! Disgusting Yes ! RAPE NO !!! ... This little trailer trash fully knew what she was doing, if this would not of surfaced on camera like it did, this slut would of done it the next weekend with someone else --- and a kick in the ass to those 3 guys, idiots for putting themselves in that position to do those things. You can't do that even to trash !!

Some of these comments make me sad for the human race. I can only hope that you people defending these three guys are friends and family of the rapists.

Ironically, had this girl decided to drive home before the video tape incident and struck someone killing them with her car she would be held 100% responsible for her actions even though she would have been just as uncomprehending as she was for the making of that tape. There is no excuse in the world for rape but it is not those boys fault she got herself too drunk to understand what was happening...not when they had already consumed a 12 pack each before she even showed up so I am sure unless she was a really heavy drinker that she managed to get herself more messed up in the head than they already where. Had those boys been sober then it would be different. Or even had not drank as much as her. Sounds to me like they were all being stupid and she just regretted it when Daddy found out about the tape. I have seen enough drunk people to know that people can look like they are still functioning but they don't have a clue what is going on around them or to them. They made themselves that way and they need to understand that when they allow themselves to get that drunk that they may very well have to pay the consequences. We should not teach people that they can just blame someone else for their bad choices or when things happen that they don't like.

For all the people who say its sick to rape an unconscious person - your right, it is. Good thing she was AWAKE. If you watched the TruTv special thats the whole reason the first trial couldnt reach a verdict, because the jurors, all but 1, saw that she showed signs of being physically and emotionally stable. Quit saying double standard this, guys are sick that. Its simply this: It should never have been retried in the first place. Again, your right, unconscious is fucked up. She wasnt. So quit calling us hypocrites for defending the guys. Ya, all the shit was fucked up. But she was awake. Get over it. So its hard for you to understand that someone might actually like this. DOnt hate us for that.

This whole situation is unfortunate, for the girl, and the boys. While I can understand how consensual, drunk, group sex can turn into something foul in a hurry, I can't feel for the guys. The ONLY reason these guys got caught, was because Greg had the nerve to show it off to people. Any decent person who made a horrible drunk mistake wouldn't go around flaunting the video, laughing about it, taking pride in it. So as much as the circumstances under which they'll all be labeled sex offenders until the day they die are unfortunate, none of this would have ever happened if Greg weren't such a scumbag when he was 17.

Please, when are women finally going to start being held responsible for their actions? Ticks me off that these high school and college girls can do all of these actions and then when it gets put on a video and their true nature and sexual actions they cry rape. Some meth head freak and alcoholic prostitutes should just stay where they are on the social ladder of life, the bottom.

All you bleeding heart fucks should have something equally reprehensible happen to you or one of your daughters. Then lets see how generous you are with your pity for these assholes that did that to that girl. It doesn't matter if she was active sexually or not. No girl/woman wants that kind of treatment. I hope they all got butt-fucked in prison.