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"One of the five teen boys charged in a beating in North College Hill will spend a lot of time working to try to make amends for his actions.The teen, who was just 13 years old at the time of the attack, was back in court Monday for his sentencing hearing.Last year, Pat Mahaney was beaten by a group of teen boys who told police they attacked him because they were \u201Cbored.\u201DJuvenile Court Prosecuting Attorney Matthew Wallace called the attack \u201Cmerciless and heinous\u201D and said it had effected Mahaney\u2019s life in a \u201Cbig way.\u201DWallace requested that Judge Tracie M. Hunter sentence the teen to time in the Department of Youth Services \u2013 the juvenile court equivalent of a jail term. She declined, instead sentencing the boy to probation until he is 21, with the potential to be locked up until he is 21 if he violates the terms of that probation.The boy must complete what Judge Hunter called an \u201Cextraordinary amount\u201D of community service \u2013 500 hours. Counseling and a mentoring program was also ordered.The boy was described in court as an \u201CA/B honors student\u201D before the attack, but his grades have slipped since then. Hunter told the teen she was giving him a chance to turn his life around and that she was instructing him to do his homework and get good grades.The teen was described as the \u201Cleast culpable\u201D of the suspects by his defense attorney, and he had fallen in with a group of bad influences. Hunter said she didn\u2019t buy what she called the \u201Cpeer pressure bit,\u201D and reminded the boy that he had his own choices to make.One of the other suspects in this case was ordered held on house arrest pending his trial after he was s accused of assaulting a teen and robbing him of his cell phone.That teen is due back in court next week."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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