A battery case revolving around an incident on a Kansas swim team bus has produced a battery conviction and one sentence of probation so far.
The incident happened on board a school bus taking the Great Bend High School swimming & diving team home from a competition. After investigations into allegations of battery, two Great Bend students were charged with battery earlier this spring. You can read more about that here and here.
Local CBS affiliate KWCH reports that as of late last week, one student had been sentenced to probation on misdemeanor battery charges and another student had been convicted of misdemeanor battery and was awaiting sentencing.
The student sentenced to probation saw that decision handed down on June 1. The other student, who is 17, according to KWCH, will be sentenced in early July.
KWCH also reports that there was a civil lawsuit filed in relation to the bus incident. The two students were charged in a criminal case, but the officials at Great Bend High School now face a civil lawsuit. Per KWCH:
A civil lawsuit has also been filed in relation to the assault. Defendants include the Great Bend Superintendent, the Principal of Great Bend High School; two Great Bend swim team coaches, a bus driver, members of the Great Bend School Board and the parents of both defendants.
