EXCLUSIVE: Steubenville rape victim asks for input in Brad Pitt's movie of her ordeal as Anonymous hacker who inspired the film breaks his silence



Brad Pitt's production company Plan B has bought rights to 'Rolling Stone' article 'Anonymous vs Steubenville'

Movie will tell the story of Hactivist, Deric Lostutter and his fight for justice for 'Jane Doe'

Lostutter told MailOnline that she wants to be a 'consultant' on the film



High School Football stars Ma'lik Richmond and Trent Mays were convicted of raping the drunk 16-year-old in a night of parties in August 2012



Rape case scandalised America and tore Ohio town apart as thousands protested authorites' 'cover up,' victim blaming and vile social media



Lostutter launched Op RollRedRoll under alter ego KYAnonymous

Hacktivist was raided by FBI last April and could face 25 years jail while one rapist is free and the other could be released next year

The teenage victim of the Steubenville rape wants to work with Brad Pitt on his movie of the now notorious Ohio scandal, MailOnline can reveal.



The girl, who has never spoken publicly about her ordeal at the hands of High School football stars, Ma’lik Richmond and Trent Mays, has asked for ‘input’ into the movie which will chronicle the crime and the role played by Anonymous hacker, Deric Lotstutter in exposing it and the cover up that followed.



Oscar winning Pitt's production company Plan B is to base the movie on a Rolling Stones profile of Lostutter, ‘Anonymous vs Steubenville,’ by journalist David Kushner.



Speaking exclusively to MailOnline, Lostutter said: ‘Who better to tell her story than her? If her lawyer approves it we’re going to make Jane Doe a consultant to the movie.

Hollywood Hacktivist: 'Twelve Years A Slave' producer Brad Pitt arriving at LAX Wednesday. The actor has bought rights to tell the story of Hacktivist Deric Lostutter and the notorious Steubenviille rape case

Computer screen to big screen: Deric Lotstutter's campaign as KYAnonymous has attracted the attention of Pitt's Plan B production company and 'Jane Doe' wants to be involved

‘Her best friend told me that she was sitting right next to her when she found out [about the movie] and that she trusts me and thanks me for getting involved.’



It is almost two years since the now infamous night in August 2012 which the girl, then 16, was raped across a series of back to back football parties. Catastrophically drunk she was dragged from one party ‘like a rag doll,’ digitally penetrated, stripped naked, abused and photographed face down on a basement floor.



The full horror of that night only came to light when pictures were shared via social media in a crime that appalled America. In texts and tweets exchanged between the attackers and their friends Steubenville High School’s revered athletes crowed over the girl, denigraded her online and made her a victim twice over.



Trial by social media: The messages over Twitter, Instagram and texts that were exchanged on a night of back to back parties in August 2012 and the next day were central to the original case - and to the outrage it caused nationwide

Video footage posted on Youtube showed former High School student Michael Nodianos on the night the crimes took place, laughing hysterically as he referred to the victim as ‘so raped right now.’ In a tweet posted that night he wrote, ‘Song of the night is definitely “Rape Me” by Nirvana.’



Quarterback Mays and wide-receiver Richmond were convicted of rape and, in Mays’s case an additional charge of dissemination of nude images of a minor, last March.

They were tried as juveniles and though both were classified as Tier II sex offenders – the State’s second highest category - Mays was sentenced to two years detention and Richmond to just one year.



Reformed character? Less than one year after his conviction Ma'lik Richmond is back in Steubenville, back at High School and back playing football

Today that ‘justice’ and the recognition his fight for it has brought is bittersweet for Lostutter.

Richmond was released in January and has resumed his studies at Steubenville High School.



He plans to play football again this Fall. With good behaviour Mays will be released next year. Both can apply to have their Tier II status, and the obligation to sign the Sex Offender register weekly, lifted.



According to Lostutter, ‘If they stay in Steubenville their lives will probably just go on like before. They’re going to have a team of supporters who are rape apologists.’



But Lostutter’s life has changed irrevocably since he was exposed last June as ‘KYAnonymous,’ the face behind the Guy Fawkes mask and the orchestrator of the chaotic collective’s Op RollRedRoll.



To the thousands of masked demonstrators who congregated on the steps of Steubenville courthouse as the ‘voice of Jane Doe,’ Lostutter is a hero.



To the FBI Lostutter’s online leaks, videos and posts may well constitute criminal activity that could see Lostutter face more jailtime than the rapists he sought to expose. His Kentucky home was raided by FBI agents in April last year.



Hacktivist: Deric Lostutter, a 26-year-old hacker and security consultant, has come forward as the man, right, in a December video which threatened to publish personal information of those involved in the Steubenville rape case

Under threat: Lostutter, 26, has received death threats since he was revealed as KYAnonymous. He has moved, struggles to find employment and faces a possible 25 years in jail

He admitted: ‘The case against me has taken a turn for the negative. I’m awaiting indictment. I’m supposed to hear something mid April, early May.’



He has been told he could face a maximum of 25 years jailtime. He regularly receives death threats and has moved from his home in Winchester to ‘the mountains in east Kentucky.’



He struggles to find employment, he said, because any would-be employer simply googles him and, he said: ‘Deric Lostutter raided by the FBI comes up.’



But, Lostutter insisted, he does not regret his involvement in the case that has, he said, ‘taken over his life.’

He said: ‘It has become my life really but if I hadn’t tried to give Jane Doe a voice then I’d be as bad as the people who stood by and did nothing while the rape was happening.’



One of the most shocking aspects of the crime which divided the small blue-collar town was, according to Police Chief William McCafferty, that ‘nobody had the morals to say, “Hey stop it. This isn’t right.”’ Critics blamed a macho ‘football’ culture in which star player were given free rein to run amok.



Ma'lik Richmond (right), pictured with fellow attacker Trent Mays, on the day the pair were convicted

Moment of truth: Trent Mays on the day he and friend Ma'lik Richmond were convicted of raping, degrading and humiliating their 16-year-old victim. Mays could be free next year

Michelle McKee, a sexual abuse survivor and activist and her friend Alexandria Goddard, a crime blogger originally from Steubenville who writes under the name Prinnie had been trying to attract media attention to the case before Anonymous became involved.



Goddard had found a wealth of incriminating tweets and photos including one which became the image of the case – the victim hanging limp between her attackers as they carry her by her wrists and ankles.



But when the family of Cody Saltsman, a player who had partied earlier with the group and posted the picture and derogatory comments on Twitter, tried to silence her with a defamation suit she alerted Anonymous to both the rape and the allegations of cover up being played out in the town and on social media.



Lostutter, explained: ‘I’d just come off my Operation Westboro Baptist Church and had a lot of media following after that. So we kind of steamrolled on into Steubenville.’



Op RollRedRoll: Protesters united under the banner of Anonymous 'steamrolled into Steubenville' to 'give Jane Doe a voice'





It is not a fight he is prepared to give up, he insisted, nor one that is over.



Last week Steubenville YMCA barred Richmond from using its facilities in line with its national policy on sex offenders.



A Facebook site ‘Boycott the YMCA of Steubenville, OH’ sprang up in protest and is filled with victim blaming comments and vitriol targeted at Lostutter, the YMCA and even Pitt’s movie.



One post reads, ‘This movie..is going to demonize and bash the two boys and the city of Steubenville.’ Elsewhere the convicted rapists are repeatedly referred to as ‘alleged rapists’ and one post wrongly states that the victim claimed to ‘want to have sex.’



Lostutter said: ‘The YMCA is the only establishment or business which is obeying the law keeping a sex offender away from children and as a result this site is calling for a boycott.’



But a Facebook page in support of the YMCA’s stance has so far received just 120 ‘likes,’ compared to the vocal supporters’ of Richmond’s 225. Lostutter said: ‘It’s this sort of culture that I’m fighting against and I won’t stop fighting against.



'Jane Doe didn't have a voice and I'm told she's thankful for what we've done. '

Shame: Saltsman publicly said that he was deeply sorry for the 'awful comments' he made about the victim but only after his family failed to silence blogger Prinnie who posted his tweets

Different day same attitude: Deric Lostutter describes supporters of this facebook page as 'apologists for rape'

Speaking to MailOnline, the victim’s attorney, Bob Fitzsimmons, said: ‘As time goes on it’s easier and better for her.



‘She’s still in high school and she’ll be graduating in May. She’s been accepted to college and she intends to go. She still receives a lot of support from friends and family and from time to time she still receives professional counselling.



‘Overall she’s made a good recovery.’



Mr Fitzsimmons would not comment directly on how Richmond’s return to Steubenville had affected the victim and her family.



But he noted: ‘When somebody’s been a victim and the perpetrator returns to the community it creates issues and a situation that I’m sure has to be dealt with.’



Home free: Ma'lik pictured at home on his return in January. His return to Steubenville is a situation his victim has had to 'deal with'

Asked whether he was satisfied that justice had been served Mr Fitzsimmons said: ‘Ma’lik was treated as a juvenile because he was a juvenile and because of the greater propensity for rehabilitation in such cases.



‘I certainly believe that what the system has done is the proper thing. This judge recognised both the seriousness and the ugliness of the crime as well as the juvenile nature of the guilty.’



Mr Fitzsimmons would not be drawn on whether or not the victim’s family intend to bring a civil case against her attackers.



But he confirmed that he is currently representing a second victim, understood to be just 14 when she was allegedly attacked by a group of Steubenville High School footballers and athletes known locally as, ‘the rape crew.' That alleged attack took place in April, four months before Jane Doe's ordeal.



Mr Fitzsimmons said: ‘I’m still involved. And it may become a case that we take forward.’



And Lostutter feels vindicated by the fact that six Steubenville officials were indicted by a grand jury convened by Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine last April. Among them was Steubenville High School Superintendent Mike McVey who now faces three felony counts and two misdemeanours for tampering with evidence, obstructing justice, falsification and obstructing official business.



In January elementary School Principal Lynette Gorman, wife of Steubenville High School Vice Principal Ted Gorman, had charges of failure to report child abuse dismissed on condition that she served 40 hours of community service.

