Gregory Kane: The wrestler who helped bring justice to Steubenville

Until recently, Trent Mays was the quarterback for Steubenville High School’s football team. Sean McGhee is just a wrestler. The difference in the sport of choice for the two teens probably has nothing to do with their worldview or values, but I’m going to make that stretch anyway, because they could not be more different.

Mays was one of two defendants recently “adjudicated delinquent” in the rape of an unidentified 16-year-old girl. Ohio juvenile court Judge Thomas Lipp handed down the ruling on March 17. Ma’lik Richmond was Mays’ co-defendant and also a member of the Big Red football team. Friday night high school football is all the rage in the Steubenville, an Ohio town of some 18,000 residents.