Sentence handed down in Wayland beating
ALLEGAN, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - It was a piece of video that shocked West Michigan when two girls attacked a fellow student on the last day of class in Wayland.
A third girl recorded the attack on her cell-phone and the video spread all over the internet.
Months after the fight in the high-school hallways, the last of several teen suspects appeared in court Monday.
New information emerged in what's called a dispositional hearing in Allegan on Monday. Newschannel 3 was in the courtroom.
Monday, a judge called what he saw in the video, 'harsh, cruel and premeditated.'
The judge sentenced a 15-year-old girl to indefinite probation, 20 hours of community service, six weekends in the county juvenile home and required her to write an apology letter.
The prosecutor argued on Monday that it was the second teen sentenced who had recruited the first girl and that she pulled the victim's hair and repeatedly hit her in the face. The defense countered that the girl in court also stepped and walked away at one point in the video of the attack.
In court Monday, the judge also read a statement from the victim who wrote that 'the tape speaks for itself and deserves the maximum punishment.
The punishment the judge handed down was the same as what the first girl received in September.
