Two 17-year-old boys accused of vandalizing Calabasas High School with racist and anti-Semitic graffiti last spring have admitted to committing felony vandalism with a hate crime allegation, prosecutors said Wednesday.
The boys, whose names are being withheld because of their age, were ordered by Sylmar Juvenile Court Referee Mark Frazin to complete 100 hours of community service, pay $6,000 in restitution, undergo counseling and attend a program at the Museum of Tolerance, said Jane Robison, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County district attorney's office.
The boys will be under supervision of the court and Probation Department for a year. A third boy, 17, who allegedly was involved in the incident, will be in court Nov. 17
The case grew out of vandalism in April at Calabasas High School, where anti-Semitic and racist graffiti was discovered on doors, walls, sidewalks and even a stop sign. The cost of the clean-up was estimated at $6,000.
After being identified, the boys who were students at the school at the time, told Los Angeles County sheriff's investigators that they scrawled graffiti on campus because they felt they had been "mistreated during the school year."
The boys told detectives they did not intend to target a specific ethnicity or faith, sheriff's officials said. The graffiti included profanity directed at specific students and teachers who had upset them, the officials said.
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