Article Launched: 01/26/2007 01:34:53 PM PST
Capping an emotional and polarizing trial, a Long Beach judge on Friday found nine black youths responsible for the beating of three white women during a Halloween melee in Bixby Knolls.
A 10th defendant, a 12-year-old girl, was acquitted and ordered released immediately from Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall.
In a packed but hushed courtroom, interrupted only by occasional sobs, Long Beach Superior Court Judge Gibson Lee found the nine juveniles eight girls and a boy ages 13 to 18 guilty of assault with the intent to produce great bodily injury, a felony and a strike that will remain on the records of five minors who are 16 and older.
Many of the minors cried during the reading of the verdict. Some buried their faces
Savages, pure and simple.
You forgot the part where all of the perps were sentenced to probation, no jail time.