Prosecutors have demanded a one-year prison sentence and 100 hours of community service for a University of Kentucky student who attacked staff and police officers during a prolonged tirade of racist abuse.
Sophia Rosing, 23, a former business and marketing student, called a young female receptionist the N-word 200 times as she stumbled drunkenly to her dorm room in November 2022.
She continued to scream as she was led away by police officers who bit her, kicked her and told her about her “wealth” as they tried to detain her.
On Monday, she pleaded guilty to six charges, including four for assault, which were amended to fourth-degree minor battery as part of a plea agreement.
“I told her she didn’t break my spirit,” said front desk clerk Kylah Spring after the hearing. “That was one of the things I said the first time I spoke about what happened and it’s still true today.”
Former University of Kentucky student Sophia Rosing, 23, racially abused university front desk clerk Kylah Spring hundreds of times in a violent, drunken 10-minute tirade in November 2022
Prosecutors have demanded a 12-month jail sentence and 100 hours of community service after she admitted six charges, including assaulting a police officer
Rosing pleaded not guilty during an initial hearing with her attorney Fred Peter in November 2022.
She had found herself back on campus in Lexington, Kentucky, after a night out drinking and plunging into Spring, who was manning the front desk.
Some students tried to intervene and others took out their phones to record the 10-minute tirade in which she punched Spring, told her to “do her chores” and repeatedly called her an “ugly, ugly bitch.”
When University of Kentucky police officers arrived at 4 a.m. to arrest her, she told them she was getting “special treatment” because she had “a lot of money.” She refused to identify herself to officers and was thrown in jail.
Within hours of the incident, she was suspended by the university and permanently banned from campus three days later.
It later emerged that she had doxed a 15-year-old girl when they were in high school together, publicly saying she would send “nude photos” and falsely claiming she had had an abortion.
Spring gave an impassioned speech at an anti-racism march the day after the incident.
The freshman became emotional as she addressed the dozens of people who attended the march in her honor, telling the crowd: “I was physically, verbally and racially attacked by Jane Doe, aka Sophia Rosing.
She was arrested in the early morning of November 6 after breaking into the dorms on the campus in Lexington, Kentucky, before unleashing herself on Spring, who was working behind the front desk.
Spring met Rosing after the incident as part of the court’s mediation service, but was not convinced of her attacker’s remorse
Rosing pleaded not guilty during an initial hearing with her attorney in November 2022
Rosing, pictured in high school, is said to have spread rumors about a fellow student who “got pregnant and had an abortion” in high school, which was not true
Her parents, Jill and Don Rosing, are seen at an earlier court hearing
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‘I am deeply saddened by the events that have taken place, but most of all I am grateful for the justice that will come.
‘To Miss Rosing. You will not break my spirit and you will be held accountable for your actions. I only pray that you open your heart to love and try to experience life differently and more positively.
“As Michelle Obama once said, when they go low, we go high. I will continue to approach this situation with grace and humility.”
A year before the horrific racist incident, Rosing had bragged to fellow students: ‘I’m fucking rich and you’re clearly not’.
DailyMail.com previously revealed how she grew up in a modest three-bedroom, two-bathroom family home in Fort Mitchell with her parents and siblings.
Rosing’s attorney, Fred Peters, said Lex18 that his client has now stopped drinking.
“She is extremely sorry,” he added.
“She has thought long and hard about what she did and she has written a beautiful letter apologizing.”
But Spring said Rosing has not addressed her behavior in court and she remains unconvinced she is remorseful.
A former classmate of Rosing’s (pictured), who attended Beechwood with her, called her a “bully” whose “true personality” was revealed by her own disgusting tirade
DailyMail.com revealed she grew up in a modest three-bedroom, two-bathroom family home in Fort Mitchell with her parents and siblings, after bragging about being ‘rich’
Rosing will return to Fayette County Court on October 17 for sentencing
“I think a person who is remorseful takes actions that show they are remorseful,” she said. “Not just words.”
“I think admitting at least some of what she did, admitting the things she said and being able to admit to them, will have a follow-up.
“Seeing yourself acting in that light is not easy, I think, so I think she still has some maturing to do and unpacking. So I’ll give her the space to do that.”
“I forgive her mostly for myself,” she added.
“I was raised to believe that we shouldn’t hold grudges. I was raised to believe that we should forgive others because God has forgiven us.”
Rosing will appear again in Fayette County Court on October 17 to hear his sentence.
