In a small courtroom in Ohio, Judge Thomas Lipps found high school students Trent Mays and Ma’lik Richmond guilty Sunday of raping an intoxicated 16-year-old girl. These Big Red football stars are now facing one year in a juvenile correctional center, with Mays receiving an additional year for the distribution of nude photos.

The conviction of two rapists should be a good thing. The fact that justice was served should be celebrated. Sadly, that was not the case with the Steubenville rapist.

CNN’s coverage of the trial focused entirely on the ruined futures of “young men that had such promising futures, star football players, very good students.”

The coverage was of the two boys weeping in the courtroom, the reporter barely mentioning the victim. They instead chose to victimize Mays and Richmond, never mentioning the lasting damage that will happen to the sixteen year old girl.

Rapists are not victims. One or two years in a juvenile correctional facility is hardly an appropriate punishment, and CNN should not have portrayed the two rapists as anyone to pity.

In the small town of Steubenville, these boys lived above the laws. They partied, were served alcohol, and were drunk on small town fame and arrogance.

This arrogance led them to believe that raping a girl who was too intoxicated to give consent or even know what was happening was okay. Classmates saw what was happening and didn’t feel the need to stop it.

According to a Yahoo! article, teammate Evan Westlake explained why he didn’t stop the boys. “It wasn’t violent, and I always pictured it as forcing yourself on someone.”

The attitudes of classmates, and even the girl’s friends leads one to believe that this was just a typical night of partying for the boys in Steubenville.

With all the rape cases that go unreported, people should be celebrating the fact that these rapists have finally been caught, not pitying them for only being sentenced one year for such a heinous crime. The fact that the boys videotaped and took picture of the “dead girl” shows their sheer arrogance of what rape actually is.

If a person is too intoxicated to actually say “yes” it is still considered rape. What has happened in Steubenville should be a wakeup call that kids need to be educated on what rape actually is.

The Steubenville case was not a man kidnapping a young girl and taking her to a dark basement. It was two high school boys humiliating and violating a girl while classmates watched and mocked the intoxicated girl.

Rape and what is appropriate consent should be taught to students, as these students clearly did not know that being too intoxicated to say anything is not a “yes.”

The outright arrogance of the Steubenville rapists and the media’s coverage of the trial show that society needs to re-access how we see rape. The Steubenville rapists are not victims, and should not be pitied.