Guilt, Arrest, and Trial:

    Guilt is a funny thing. It manages to catch its victim at an odd time. The worst that it hit was Chris. It didn't take long for him to break down and tell the truth.

    "He said, 'Nana, I did something horrible,'" his grandmother explained. "And I said, 'What did you do?' He broke down and told me. I couldn't believe what I heard. Chris had always been a good boy. He broke down crying before me. I patted him on the head. He looked up at me with tears in his eyes. 'Will you go with me to the police station?' he asked. I told that I would."

    By the next day, Chris and his grandmother went down to the police station to turn himself in. Surprisingly, he wasn't the only one thinking the same thing. His girlfriend, Wendy, did the same thing. It didn't take long for the police to round up the whole gang. By the end of forty-eight hours, everyone was rounded up and charged with assault, rape, and attempted murder. While Janine wouldn't talk, the others sang like little birds.

    "The scary thing was they were normal kids," Officer Joel said. "It still blows my mind that kids can be such monsters when pushed to that point."

    "This case practically fascinated everyone," a reporter, Crystal Jones, said. "The nature of the case was just unheard of in Mayberry." Chris and Wendy agreed to testify against Janine in exchange for a lesser sentence. The trial took place January second, 1985. Chris and Wendy both got two years in prison. Majority of the crew got ten to fifteen years in prison with the possibility. The toughest trial was to come for Janine herself. Everyone wondered what she was going to say or do.

    "We all wanted to hear her justify her actions to that poor girl," Crystal said. "Everyone wanted to ask why?" Too bad they wouldn't hear it from her. Janine instead chose to plead guilty to conspiracy and assault. At sentencing, she offered up an apology to the people.

    "I'm so sorry for the way I tried your daughter," she told Bella's mother in court. Nobody believed her.

    "She was just full of shit," Joey said. "Everyone knew that she was talking out of her ass and hoping to get away with what she did." The judge certainly thought so.

    "There is no earthly reason for any person to go through all of that treatment that you did to her that night!" he said aloud. "How do you even reason with such? How do you even begin to reason with that sort of twisted logic?" Judge Amos sentenced her to twenty-years without parole.

    "Not enough!" the class president said. "There is no punishment that could match what Janine did to her. She should've gotten death in my opinion. Even that wouldn't do any good." She bit on her lower lip to contain herself. Janine didn't even show any emotion the whole time. She didn't even seem to care what happened to her.

    "The creepiest part about the whole trial was the lifeless, cold look in her eyes during her sentencing," Officer Joel said. "We all expected her to say or do something. But, no. Nothing. Nothing at all. Her whole demeanor reminded me of the devil himself."