Although the Steubenville Trial is over, there are still more serious questions that need to be answered. These questions cannot be answered overnight, but at some point we as a society need to address them.The first question at hand is why both Trent Mays and Ma’lik Richmond did not receive harsher sentences than what they were given?Rape is a criminal offense that should be treated with severity. These young men are a few years shy of adulthood; they should have been tried as adults, especially under the circumstances. Whether or not the boys were intoxicated, it does not justify what they did. The young men who thought they had the right to take advantage of an intoxicated underage girl and then publicly boast about it deserved more than a minimum of one to two years in a juvenile correctional facility.Mays and Richmond are not as remorseful as they want everyone to believe. If they had any kind of conscience, they would not have committed such an appalling offense in the first place.The second question is why are some people worried about the future of Mays and Richmond, rather than the future of the girl who was sexually assaulted?There have been several reports that CNN and other networks were biased in their coverage of the trial with the networks focusing on what will happen to the boys and the effect of the trial on their families.The main focus should be the victim, in this case the 16-year-old girl who was violated physically and now mentally. It shouldn’t condone her illegal drinking, but no one deserves to be mistreated, especially when they are not in the right state of mind. This young girl will have to try to return to a life of normalcy, while her community looks upon her with disgust, shame or sympathy.The upsetting aspect of this tragedy is that people siding with the athletes are further victimizing this girl. She is not the wrongdoer in this situation, but some people are making it seem that way.Not only does she have to recall this event of her life, but she has to deal with the images and videos of her that surfaced in her community and on the Internet, with new sites CNN, Fox and MSNBC broadcasting her name.Mays and Richmond will probably serve their time and will have to register as sex offenders. If they were tried as adults they would have to go the rest of their lives being marked as criminals and serve a longer sentence in prison, which I believe they deserve.Mays and Richmond got apprehended because of how much they bragged about sexually assaulting the teenage girl through social media, pictures and videos that captured how funny they thought the situation was to them.This brings up the question why did both young men deem it necessary to share this incident with peers and others through texts and social media?Teenagers have become too dependent on social media; they will share every personal detail of their lives or harm others using it. Teenagers and even young adults will use websites like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr or Instagram to express their thoughts publically.It wasn’t always this way. How did we as a society let it get this far, and at what point do we say enough is enough?Social media helped catch both young men in the end. Social media does play a role in society that can sometimes protect the well-being of individuals who are or have been targeted. In this case, a nude photo that surfaced of the victim in social media posts led to the conviction of Mays and Richard.There is a lesson to be learned from this incident. As college students, we need to look at how we conduct ourselves when we go out and during parties. Something like this could happen to anyone, especially when you are intoxicated and cannot handle yourself.Society needs to take a step back and analyze this situation very seriously. Society needs to reevaluate the justice system and how criminals are convicted in regards to sexual offenses. Society also needs to look closer at the role of social media in the lives of young people and how it impacts this generation. There needs to be some kind of change. If the Steubenville Trial has not showed that, then I don’t know what will.