Family and friends of three young men from Beloit who were sentenced this month in connection with the 2018 sexual assault of a classmate at Beloit Memorial High School protest what they say was an unfair racially motivated sentence.
Court records show Mar’Kai Payne and Brandon Perry, plead guilty to two counts of 2nd degree sexual assault of a child and one count of intentionally causing harm to a child. The judge deferred prosecution on the sexual assault charges and sentenced the two to a year in the Rock County Jail. The sexual assault charges will be dropped if they successfully complete probation. Tre’roryon Floyd plead guilty to two counts of second degree sexual assault as well as armed robbery in connection with a crime he committed while out on bail. He was sentenced to five years in prison for the armed robbery and the judge deferred prosecution on the sexual assault charges.
In an unrelated case, former Beloit Memorial High School teacher Tyler J. Edge, who is white, plead guilty to causing mental harm to a child and repeated sexual assault of a child. The judge deferred prosecution on the repeated sexual assault of a child charge and sentenced Edge 90 days in the Rock County Jail.
The group says they are reaching out to the Concerned Black Citizens of Beloit and the NAACP, and seeking the sentencing records for Judge John Wood.
