Ex-student Sophia Rosing from Kentucky gets 12 months in prison for racist attack

A former University of Kentucky student caught on camera assaulting a black student employee while repeatedly calling her the n-word will spend a year in prison, to be served on pretrial detention, a judge ruled judge last week.

Sophia Rosing was handed a 12-month prison sentence after pleading guilty to charges of assault, disorderly conduct and public intoxication, ABC 36 reported.

Rosing, who is white, repeatedly uttered the disgusting racial slurs as she beat then-19-year-old student Kyla Spring during a drunken escapade at a campus residence in November 2022, according to authorities and video of the attack.

Spring previously said she tried to check on Rosing, who appeared intoxicated, but instead suffered the ugly seizure.

“The girl starts saying things like ‘Do my chores,’ ‘It’s not my fault you’re black,’ ‘It’s not my fault you’re ugly,’ and at this point she sings the N-word,” Spring remembered.

Rosing, now 23, couldn’t stop her shocking behavior even after police arrived and arrested her. She was also accused of kicking and biting an officer during the spiraling episode.

The university banned Rosing, who was a senior at the time, from campus after the racist attack.

Fayette Circuit Court Judge Lucy Vanmeter also ordered Rosing to perform 100 hours of community service on Thursday, the Courier Journal reported.

Her attorney, Fred Peters, complained to the Lexington Herald Leader that the prison sentence was “excessive.”

He explained that due to the nature of the offenses, she will serve her prison sentence under protective custody at the Fayette County Detention Center.

“What she said was terrible,” Peters told the news station.

“She got into fights with the clerk and bit people on the hand, (but) I don’t think she deserved a sentence of 12 months in prison for the very first offense in her life.”