time to ruin their lives.
“Chapter 370, and by the United States Endangered Species Act of 1973. Briefly, these laws state that: “No person may take, harass, harm, pursue, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture or attempts to engage in any such conduct to marine turtles, turtle nests, and/or turtle eggs.” Any person who knowingly violates any provision of the act may be assessed civil penalties up to $25,000 or criminal penalty up to $100,000 and up to one year imprisonment.”
Hopefully it is much more than that for beating the guy up. I would say it is 100 times worse (at least), but I imagine getting stuck in prison for five years is probably even hoping for too much.
The 16 year-old will get a slap on the wrist. (For the turtle I could almost see that, but for helping beat somebody up - maybe he will serve some harsh punishment)