Teens face probation in bus beating

Two teenage boys charged with beating up a younger student on a school bus have been sentenced to six months' probation and ordered to serve 40 hours of community service.

Macomb County Circuit Judge Antonio Viviano sentenced one boy, 14, on Tuesday and the other, 13, on Wednesday for misdemeanor assault and battery.

The May 12 attack was recorded by a bus surveillance camera. The tape showed the boys taunting and teasing a 10-year-old on their way home from school. The child told police he was hit about 15 times on the head and face.

Despite the altercation, the bus driver continued her route and yelled for the boys to stop fighting, the child told New Baltimore police. She also asked if he was all right and handed him a paper towel for his bloody nose, he said.

Both of the sentenced boys are due back for separate progress hearings in June, a court clerk said. Their names were withheld because they are minors.