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Serena Williams: "I am deeply sorry."

buzzz worthy. . . Serena Williams says her words about the  Steubenville rape in a  Rolling Stone article were misconstrued. The rape case involving three high school boys rapping a drunk 16-year-old gained national attention last Fall. While not blaming the victim in the Steubenville rape case, "she shouldn't have put herself in that position," Williams opined.  That opinion did not sit well with the public and the tennis pro had to respond to an avalanche of media backlash. In the passage from the article below she appeared to be passing judgment on the Ohio teen: "They did something stupid, but I don’t know. I’m not blaming the girl, but if you’re a 16-year-old and you’re drunk like that, your parents should teach you: don’t take drinks from other people. She’s 16, why was she that drunk where she doesn’t remember? It could have been much worse. She’s lucky. Obviously I don’t know, maybe she wasn’t a virgin, but she shouldn’t have put herself in that...