Vile University of Kentucky student who called black staffer the N-word 200 times before assaulting her in viral video learns her fate

A erstwhile University of Kentucky student who went viral for a horrific 2022 field incident has been sentenced to prison.

Sophia Rosing, 23, a one-time concern and selling major, was caught unleashing a vicious tirade connected camera - calling a achromatic unit subordinate the N-word astatine slightest 200 times portion assaulting her.

Rosing volition service 1 twelvemonth down bars for the racist attack, Fayette Circuit Court Judge Lucy Vanmeter ruled Thursday.

She volition besides beryllium required to execute 100 hours of assemblage work and wage a $25 good nether a plea deal, successful which Rosing pleaded blameworthy to 4 counts of fourth-degree assault, 1 number of disorderly behaviour and 1 number of alcohol intoxication.

She concisely apologized to the victim, Kylah Spring, a first-year pupil astatine the schoolhouse who was serving arsenic a front-desk clerk the nighttime Rosing drunkenly stumbled backmost into her dorm without her pupil ID, Lex 18 reports.

Rosing was inactive yelling arsenic she was led distant by constabulary officers. She had bitten, kicked and informed them of her 'wealth' arsenic they tried to restrain her - contempt increasing up successful a humble three-bedroom and two-bathroom household spot successful Fort Mitchell with her parents and siblings.

Rosing had stumbled backmost onto field successful Lexington, Kentucky, aft a nighttime retired drinking earlier launching herself astatine Spring who was manning the beforehand desk.

Some students tried to intervene and others took retired their phones to grounds the 10-minute tirade during which she swung punches astatine Spring, told her to 'do her chores', and repeatedly called her an 'ugly n***** bitch'.

When University of Kentucky constabulary officers arrived to detain her astatine 4am she told them she gets 'special treatment' due to the fact that she has 'lots of money', and refused to place herself to officers arsenic she was slung into jail.

She was suspended by the assemblage wrong hours of the incident, and permanently banned from field 3 days later.

Rosing was besides charged with archetypal and 2nd grade offenses of nationalist intoxication, third-degree battle of a constabulary officer, fourth-degree battle and second-degree disorderly conduct.

But she posted a $10,000 enslaved and was released the adjacent night.

Meanwhile, the University of Kentucky held an anti-racism march successful which Spring made an impassioned code to those who showed up to enactment her.

She told the crowd: 'I was physically, verbally and racially assaulted by Jane Doe, aka Sophia Rosing.

'This is simply a recurring contented successful and crossed the American schoolhouse strategy nary substance what age.

'I americium profoundly saddened by the events that took place, but I americium astir grateful for justness that is to come.

'To Miss Rosing, you volition not interruption my tone and you volition beryllium held accountable for your actions. I lone commune that you unfastened your bosom to emotion and effort to acquisition beingness otherwise and much positively.

'As Michelle Obama erstwhile said, when they spell low, we spell high. I volition proceed to code this concern with grace and humility.'

Spring has since revealed that she told Rosing astatine a sentencing proceeding 'that she didn't interruption my spirit.

'That was 1 of the things I said the archetypal clip I ever spoke astir what happened and that rings existent today.' 

She told the tribunal astatine the time: 'I bash recognize that 1 infinitesimal should not specify you for the remainder of your life, and I besides recognize that for each moment, we are accountable for what we do.'

But Rosing's attorney Fred Peters has said that his lawsuit stopped drinking successful the aftermath of the viral tirade.

'She's highly remorseful,' helium said.

'She has had a batch of clip to deliberation astir what she has done, and she wrote a bully missive of apology.'

The lawyer went connected to admit that Rosing's actions that nighttime were 'awful.'

'She got into a scuffle with the clerk, spot radical connected the hand,' helium told the Lexington Herald-Leader.

But, Peters argued that the one-year situation condemnation is 'excessive.'

'I deliberation she did not merit a condemnation of 12 months successful situation [for] the precise archetypal discourtesy successful her life,' helium said, noting that Rosing volition beryllium successful protective custody astatine the Fayette County Detention Center owed to the quality of her crimes.

'It was not a bully time for Sophia Rosing,' helium said. 

Spring, meanwhile, says she remains unconvinced of Rosing's remorse - noting that she did not code her behaviour successful court. 

'I consciousness that a idiosyncratic that is remorseful takes actions that are moving towards proving they are remorseful,' she said. 'Not conscionable words.'

'I deliberation her admitting astatine slightest a portion of what she's done – admitting the things she said and being capable to ain up to them, I deliberation it's going to travel behind.

'Seeing yourself enactment successful that airy is not an casual happening to see, I imagine, truthful I conjecture there's inactive a spot of maturing and unpacking she needs to bash with that. So I'll springiness her the abstraction to bash that.'

'I forgive her much truthful for myself, she added.

'I was raised not to clasp grudges, I was raised that we springiness radical forgiveness due to the fact that God forgave us.'