An online video showing a young man joking and giving commentary of events alleged to have happened leading up to charges in a Steubenville teen-rape case has moved from online media to mainstream broadcast media.

Thursday morning, CNN aired a portion of the video that NEWS9 described on Wednesday. State investigators and prosecutors said they have seen the video, but it is not clear if it will be a part of February's trial against the two defendants charged with rape.

Most of what is said in the video is profane and disturbing. In it, the young man repeatedly refers to the young female accuser as "dead" and compares her condition at the time to various famous dead persons.

The word "rape" is also used several times. At one point, a person off-camera says it's not funny and asks, "What if that was your daughter?" The young man featured in the video replies, "If that was my daughter, I wouldn't care. I'd just let her be dead."

Crime blogger Alexandria Goddard, who runs the website prinniefied.com, discussed the video on CNN Thursday morning.

Goddard said during the interview, "It proves that there was a 12-minute video. I found the Google cache from YouTube and some of those supporters were like, 'It doesn't exist.' And that video surfacing now proves that, you know, it does exist and some of the commentary that was going on, by the person, tells the horrific things that happened that night."

Goddard and several unnamed members of her online community were named in a defamation lawsuit filed by the parents of a student mentioned in comments on her website. That lawsuit was eventually dropped.

While Steubenville Police Chief Bill McCafferty, Jefferson County Sheriff Fred Abdalla and Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine told NEWS9 on Wednesday they had seen the video, it is unknown if the video will play any part in the juvenile's criminal trial.

DeWine told NEWS9's Eric Minor over the phone on Wednesday that he would not comment on the case that his special prosecutors are building until the trial is over.

The case is set to go to trial with those special prosecutors and an out-of-town judge on Feb. 13, 14 and 15.

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