Talk about senseless, heinous, utterly unjustified, etc.
The kids who did this all need to be doused with rubbing alcohol and burned brutally and publicly, and hopefully they die as a result. It really sucks that the law doesn't allow for that. Locking them up simply isn't enough in this particular case. Even worse, since the assailants are minors, I'm afraid that the judge in this case might mitigate their punishments, but that's fucking bullshit. Nobody of any age should be doing this kind of stuff.