The rape case pushed Steubenville, an Ohio city of 18,000 residents, into the national spotlight. (Dougtone/Creative Commons)

Attorney General Mike DeWine said he is investigating whether coaches, parents and other students broke the law too by being involved in a cover-up to protect the Steubenville High School football team. Trent Mays, 17, and Ma'Lik Richmond, 16, were sentenced to at least a year in juvenile prison in a case that thrusted the city of 18,000 into the national spotlight.

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Noting that 16 people refused to talk, many of them underage, DeWine said possible offenses to be investigated include failure to report a crime.

“This community desperately needs to have this behind them, but this community also desperately needs to know justice was done and that no stone was left unturned,” he said.

Among the people who have been interviewed were the owners of one of the houses where parties took place that night, the high school principal, and the football team’s 27 coaches, many of them volunteers.

Text messages introduced at trial suggested the head coach was aware of the rape allegation early on. DeWine said coaches are among officials required by state law to report child abuse. The coach and the school district repeatedly have declined to comment.

The teenage girl testified Saturday that she could not remember what happened the night of the attack, but woke up naked in a strange house after drinking at a party, according to CBS News. 

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Beyond their minimum one-year sentence, juvenile authorities will determine how much longer Mays and Richmond will be held until they turn 21.

Read the full story at the Zanesville Times Recorder.

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