Steubenville: A tragic lesson for parents

By HLNtv.com Staff

updated 3:19 PM EDT, Mon March 18, 2013

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Steubenville: A tragic lesson for parents

A juvenile court judge found Trent Mays and Ma’Lik Richmond guilty of rape, but the story is far from over in Steubenville and the entire country.

Mays and Richmond will go to a juvenile facility and register as sex offenders. The judge in the case sentenced Mays to 2 years and Richmond 1 year. Those decisions lit a fire on Twitter and Facebook with many feeling like the sentence was too light.

Raising America with Kyra Phillips took a closer look at how the sentence affected the parents of the teens involved in the case and people around the country who voiced their opinion on social media.

For more conversations like this, watch Raising America every week day at 12 p.m. ET on HLN. And be sure to tweet @KyraHLN with the #RaisingAmerica hashtag or leave your thoughts on Facebook.com.

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