On March 17, 2013, Judge Thomas Lipps tried Mays and Richmond as juveniles and found them guilty of rape. Each defendant received the minimum sentence for their convicted crimes, with the possibility of remaining in juvenile detention until age 21. The judge set the minimum sentence of one year for Richmond, who was found guilty of using his fingers to penetrate the girl while she was unconscious. Mays, who was found guilty of penetrating the girl while she was unconscious and disseminating pornographic pictures of her, was given the minimum sentence of two years. Because the girl was a minor, Mays was charged with and convicted of the dissemination of child pornography, which is the reason for his additional year in juvenile detention. Whether or not Mays and Richmond will be added to the sexual-offenders registry depends on a future hearing to evaluate their behavior once they have turned 21.

Race has absolutely nothing to do with this case. The white kid did get a second yr for some other charge so he has a total of 2 yrs. Black kid one yr.

This crime should have included the person who took the videos and he should have been charged too. Also the sentence was light due to the prosecutor was related to the white kid. They should have all gotten many years in prison for this.

It was a crying shame how the court only slapped them on the hands. I have a 24 yr old daughter and I think what if that had been her? That victim was someones daughter, someones sister. She was treated like a piece of meat.

I wish the prosecutor had been Juan Martinez who is prosecuting Jodi Arias trial. He's a bulldog and I swear he would have tore those boys up!!

They cried for themselves and little was mentioned of the victim, in fact the victim was threatened. I have to ask at risk of being called racist, "Do you suppose being black had something to do with a light slap on the wrist sentence?

She was drunk which should not mean she is open to attack, but she made herself vulnerable.

But I was surprised by the light sentence, but it is America and they were white

err one of them isn't black