There is a trial just coming to a conclusion involving several college kids that will impact all of them for the rest of their lives.
All those involved seem to be in the top echelon of the school-star athletes, an honor student.
The athletes were found guilty on all counts of rape of the female honor student.
All said they were too intoxicated to remember anything about the rape including the rape victim.
One of the football players and the female student had been partying. He brought her back to his dorm and can be seen carrying her around the hall from room to room with the aid of several other young men. He seems to be having a great time as they all do, smiling and laughing on the videos from the security cameras.
Video and photos were taken, sent across country, in fact, to friends. One responded, according to his own testimony that they had better get rid of her and all the evidence. Now he is also being charged for some complicity and attempting to destroy evidence and he was hundreds of miles away.
Several young men participated in raping the young woman as she was in the drunken stupor, lifeless, unable to defend herself.
How can that level of debauchery be reached?
How do people join in such hurtful behavior?
How and why didn't someone step up and say "Stop" instead of participating?
How can anyone just turn their back and walk away knowing what is going on, especially to someone so helpless?
Is that evil always lurking in our minds just waiting for its chance to come out when the opportunity arises?
Now, for the events of a few hours of "fun", 2 young men with great futures ahead of them have already been convicted and will spend many years in prison and be labeled as sex offenders for the rest of their lives and more trials coming up for others. Their careers ruined. All of them.
And what of the young woman? Will she be able to get past this?
And the families, what about the families? One father principally collapsed at the verdict of his son. His pride and joy. Instead of watching him play football and glory in all the hoopla, he will be visiting him and watching him through bars.
How sad. So many people's lives changed over night. So many hopes and dreams crushed.
Each and every one of them were in the wrong place at the wrong time making wrong choices and will suffer the consequences along with all those around them.
This morning's Bible verse from Dr. David Jeremiah was:
4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? 5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour
Psalms 8:4-5
Had all those young people remembered the glory and honour that God had crowned them with, honoured the strong, young bodies they were privileged to have, they would now be readying to graduate, starting their careers. Instead, they are graduating into a daily grind of bars, marching to some else's orders and the possibility of the same thing happening to them.
That is a high price to pay for a few minutes of being in the wrong place, at the wrong time making the wrong choices. I think they would tell all of us that this is just not worth it.
I ask God to be with "All Mine" to keep them safe daily and to lead them into right choices and to keep them out of wrong places and circumstances.
May God bless you and keep you and "All Yours"
Carolyn Wainscott
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