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THE GUARDIANSteubenville rape trial forces depressed Ohio town to look inward for answers
In Steubenville, a small, struggling former steel town on the bank of the OhioRiver, the last five days of an excruciating rape trial and the months leading up to it have been racked with angst and division.
But at issue for many residents was not the specifics of the case alone: whether two stars of the town's much-loved high school football team raped a drunken teenage girl during a night of wild parties.