“The boys have yet to be sentenced for the August 2011 attack.”
And there’s the rub. Dollars to donuts the boys will walk because the judge will be getting “revenge” for ignoring the command of the court.
At this point, it doesn't matter if they walk. When you google their names, the first several pages are about the rape. Every college admissions officer and every employer who googles their names from now on will see that they pleaded guilty. Who would want the potential liability associated with hiring them? Who would want them on their campus? They can forget about the comfortable middle-class life their parents had planned out for them.
You're right - and that's not just a guess. They were already going to walk under the plea deal. The victim had nothing to lose. I'm cheering for her - any girl who let a pair of rapists get away like that despite photographic evidence would never recover. She got a whole lot closer to justice with her actions, and I am happy that she was able to do that much.