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Originally Posted by activeStick
These kids were 17? 18? I'm not sure I can convince myself that they were there for 10 minutes and weren't sure what to do about what they saw. I understand there are teenage peer pressures to fit in and all that, but yeah, sorry, 10 minutes is a long time. For me.
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You’re 17, newly 18. Get invited up to a room. First time you’re seeing anything like this, in all likelihood. Most of the guys involved you know and trust. Would you know exactly what was happening or what you were supposed to do? Maybe they want you to join and you have that feeling that it isn’t right, but it takes you longer than it should to just separate yourself from the situation. The agent said “about 10 minutes”… would it have made a difference if it was 5? What was happening at the time?
8 guys were part of the lawsuit. 5 guys are being charged.
I think there’s probably a lot of deserved blame and deserved guilt for the 3 who aren’t being charged. But I think it’s a lot easier for older guys to say they should’ve just known and made the right decision in the moment. Where it’s really hard to stomach is all the silence after. Maybe understandable to make a bad, immoral choice in the moment. Much less understandable not to rectify that once you have the benefit of hindsight and know exactly what you saw.