Abbey Cutrer
Former UK student Sophia Rosing walks into her sentencing on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024, at the Robert F. Stephens Circuit Courthouse in Lexington, Kentucky. Rosing was sentenced to 12 months in jail for assaulting a student desk clerk in November 2022. Photo by Abbey Cutrer | Staff
Former University of Kentucky student Sophia Rosing has asked for shock probation to shorten her sentence. She has served four months of a 12-month sentence.
Rosing was also sentenced to 100 days of community service and a $25 fine after pleading guilty to the November 2022 assault of a student. She was sentenced in October 2024.
In November of 2022, a video of Rosing using a racial slur to a Boyd Hall desk clerk and physical assault went viral, according to the Kentucky Kernel.
According to the motion filed in Fayette County Circuit Court, Rosing “respectfully request(s) for this Court to suspend further execution of her sentence and place her on probation or probation with an alternative sentence under the supervision of the Division of Probation and Parole.”
Rosing plead guilty to four counts of fourth-degree assault, one count of disorderly conduct and one account of alcohol intoxication, according to the Kentucky Kernel.
According to Rosing’s attorney, Daniel Whitley Sr., Rosing is not considered a violent offender under Kentucky law as her offenses does not meet the statutory definition of a violent crime.
Rosing has requested the court grant her shock probation and suspend the rest of her sentence with strict probation terms, supervised release and counseling, as well as community service, according to the document.
According to a Fayette County Circuit Court clerk, the judge has not yet set a hearing.