Vile University of Kentucky student who called black staffer the N-word 200 times before assaulting her in viral video learns her fate

A former University of Kentucky student who went viral for a horrific campus incident in 2022 has been sentenced to prison.

Sophia Rosing, 23, a former business and marketing major, was caught unleashing a vicious on-camera tirade, calling a black staff member the N-word at least 200 times while attacking her.

Rosing will serve a year behind bars for the racist attack, Fayette Circuit Court Judge Lucy Vanmeter ruled Thursday.

She will also be required to perform 100 hours of community service and pay a $25 fine under a plea agreement in which Rosing pleaded guilty to four counts of fourth-degree assault, one count of disorderly conduct and one count of alcohol intoxication.

She apologized briefly to the victim, Kylah Spring, a freshman at the school who served as a receptionist the night Rosing drunkenly stumbled into her dorm without her student ID. Lex 18 reports.

Rosing was still screaming as she was led away by police officers. She had bitten, kicked and informed them of her “wealth” as they tried to restrain her – despite growing up in a modest three-bedroom, two-bathroom family home in Fort Mitchell with her parents and siblings.

Rosing had stumbled back onto campus in Lexington, Kentucky, after a night out before launching herself at Spring, who was manning the front desk.

Some students tried to intervene and others took out their phones to record the ten-minute tirade in which she lashed out at Spring, telling her to “do her chores” and repeatedly calling her an “ugly n***** bitch” . .

When University of Kentucky police officers arrived to detain her at 4 a.m., she told them she was getting “special treatment” because she had “a lot of money” and refused to identify herself to officers when she entered the prison was thrown.

She was suspended by the university within hours of the incident and permanently banned from campus three days later.

Rosing was also charged with first- and second-degree misdemeanors of public intoxication, third-degree assault on a police officer, fourth-degree assault and second-degree disorderly conduct.

But she posted $10,000 bail and was released the next night.

Meanwhile, the University of Kentucky held an anti-racism march in which Spring gave an impassioned speech to those who showed up to support her.

She told the crowd: “I was physically, verbally and racially assaulted by Jane Doe, aka Sophia Rosing.

“This is a recurring problem in and across the American school system, regardless of age.

“I am deeply saddened by the events that have occurred, but I am deeply grateful for the justice that is to come.

“To Ms. 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 handle this situation with grace and humility.”

Spring has since revealed that she told Rosing during a sentencing hearing “that she didn’t break my spirit.”

“That was one of the things I said when I first spoke about what happened, and it still holds true today.”

She told the court at the time: “I understand that one moment should not define you for the rest of your life, and I also understand that we are responsible for what we do in every moment.”

But Rosing’s lawyer Fred Peters has said his client stopped drinking in the wake of the viral tirade.

“She is deeply remorseful,” he said.

‘She has had a lot of time to think about what she did and she has written a beautiful letter of apology.’

The attorney further admitted that Rosing’s actions that night were “terrible.”

“She got into a fight with the clerk and bit people on the hand,” he said told the Lexington Herald-Leader.

But Peters argued that the one-year prison sentence is “excessive.”

‘I don’t think she deserved a 12-month prison sentence [for] the very first crime in her life,” he said, noting that Rosing will be placed in protective custody at the Fayette County Detention Center due to the nature of her crimes.

“It wasn’t a good day for Sophia Rosing,” he said.

Spring, meanwhile, says she remains unconvinced of Rosing’s remorse, noting that she has not discussed her behavior in court.

“I feel like someone who is remorseful takes actions designed to prove that 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 that, I think this will follow behind that.

“Seeing yourself act in that light is not easy, I think, so I think she still has some maturing and unpacking to do with that. So I give her the space to do that.’

“For myself, I forgive her more,” she added.

“I was raised not to hold grudges, I was raised to believe that we forgive people because God has forgiven us.”