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Teen returns to football team

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — A former Ohio high school football player found guilty of raping a 16-year-old girl after an alcohol-fueled party two years ago returned to the field Tuesday with his old team.

Ma’Lik Richmond played for Steubenville High School in a scrimmage against Cambridge.

Richmond and fellow athlete Trent Mays were adjudicated delinquent in the August 2012 assault on a West Virginia girl. Richmond was sentenced to one year in juvenile detention and Mays, who was also found guilty of using his phone to take a naked picture of the underage girl, was sentenced to two years.

Richmond, now 18, was classified as a Tier II sex offender last August, meaning he will have to register every six months for the next 20 years.

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