I don't think he should get any jail time, but if he went to high school with me, I'd definitely out him as someone who watched a girl get raped, joked about it on video (on the night that it happened), tweeted more jokes about it and then denied it ever happened to cover up for his rapist friends. Cause that doesn't make him a dumbass kid as much as a shitty human being.
The guy in the video in the link is also one of the students who live-tweeted the (purported)rape, with choice comments like: "You don't sleep through a wang in the bu**hole #deadgirl," "Some people deserve to be peed on," and "Song of the night is definitely Rape Me by Nirvana."
If you google around, you'll find tweeted pictures of the girl being dragged around, unconscious. Few were willing to come forward as witnesses.
I read some of the comments by users on that article and a few are saying things like, "That's just how young guys talk these days when they're in a group or alone. If you took a recording device everywhere, you'd all be guilty of the same type of thing."
And to that I have to call utter and complete BS. Twenty years ago when I was in high school, I had more guy friends than girl friends and never (ever) did I hear anyone ever talk like this guy or say these types of things. As a matter of fact, the guys I hung out with would have probably put a stop to the hate-mongering ASAP.
If this truly is how young people (of this generation) talk about things like this, then what the heck? I'm really astounded. I can only imagine what his parents are thinking.
Perhaps it's time for people to stop thinking that they're safe spewing hate-speech online or in groups (where the guy had to know he was being recorded).