We all remember reading about that appalling, locker-room-hockey-stick abuse case at Walker Middle School last year. Now the last two defendants, Diemante Roberts, 16, and Raymond Price-Murray, 15, have been adjudicated. Both sides agreed to reduced (from sexual battery) charges. The sentence, however, grossly mismatched the rhetoric.
Hillsborough Circuit Judge Emmett Lamar Battles: “In this case, the bullying was horrific. How terrible what that (13-year-old) victim suffered. What cruelty, what crimes. It shocked the conscience; it shocked the community.”
The sentence: Five years adult probation.