Ex-University of Kentucky Student Pleads Guilty After Racist Attack of Black Student Was Caught on Video

Mar. 15, 2025

Sophia Rosing.Photo:Fayette County Detention Center

Fayette County Detention Center

A former University of Kentucky student who physically assaulted and shouted racial slurs at a Black student has pleaded guilty to several charges, according to multiple news reports.

Sophia Rosing.Taylor Six/Lexington Herald-Leader/Tribune News Service/Getty

Taylor Six/Lexington Herald-Leader/Tribune News Service/Getty

“As a community working to prevent racist violence, we also must be committed to holding people accountable for their actions,” University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouoto said in a statement at the time, according to USA Today.

Monday’s guilty pleas came after a mediation earlier that day in which Rosing’s attorney, Fred Peters, said, “A lot of things got said, apologies were made and we worked it out,” theHerald-Leaderreported.

Rosing, he claimed, “has had a lot of time to think about what she has done, and she wrote a nice letter of apology.”

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“I forgive her more so for myself,” Spring told the outlet. “I was raised not to hold grudges, I was raised that we give people forgiveness because God forgave us. It’s a hard thing for me to come to terms with, but in the end, I want to live a life where people can say I was a kind and forgiving person.”

Rosing faces up to a year in prison and 100 hours of community service,USA Todayreported.

Public court records show she’s scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 17.

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source: people.com