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Steubenville Residents 'Relieved' Justice Was Served In Big Red Football Rape Case, More Charges Pending

Steubenville Trial

March 19 2013, Published 6:43 a.m. ET

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As the convicted Big Red football rapists reel from the shock of the guilty verdict that was handed down at the weekend, residents of the small Ohio town are relieved that justice has finally been served for the heinous crime.

"I feel that there needed to be accountability, but I still don't think that everyone who was implicit in the case has been brought to justice yet," local resident Willa Wade, whose daughter is a senior at Steubenville High School, tells Breaking Celebrity News in an exclusive interview.

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As we previously reported, Judge Thomas Lipps announced his decision in the no-jury case Sunday, finding both 17-year-old Trent Mays and Ma’lik Richmond, 16, guilty in the case that has divided the close-knit football-crazed town and riveted the nation.

Tried as juveniles, Richmond and Mays now face being jailed until they turn 21, and Wade believes they deserve to lose their youth behind bars for what they did to the anonymous 16-year-old victim, who was allegedly extremely drunk and may have been drugged when she was raped while partying with the boys last August.

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"As for as the sentence they received, it is fair, and I don't think it was overly harsh," Wade says. "I hope that people realize from this