The alleged victim was relentlessly bullied and harassed and she first attempted suicide when she was 16 years old. The family was forced to leave town and their house burned down in mysterious circumstances. Outrage in online communities soon followed when the story surrounding this case was revisited in October 2013. Michael Schaffer, reporting on the incident for "The New Republic", described Maryville as a "lawless hellhole". In 2014, a special prosecutor was put in charge to reinvestigate the case. The first boy pleaded guilty to misdemeanor second-degree endangerment of the welfare of a child for leaving her outside her house, and was sentenced by Missouri Circuit Judge Glen Dietrich to four months in jail that were suspended in favor of two years probation. The boy was sentenced in juvenile court for the assault. The incident is featured in the 2016 Netflix documentary "Audrie & Daisy".