On Friday, NewsMax reported that the young man who sexually assaulted a teenage girl in the ladies room in Loudoun County, Virginia, and later sexually assaulted another student will not have to register as a sex offender.

The article reports:

The parents of a Loudoun County school sexual assault victim worked to keep the teen attacker out of jail — instead opting for official sex offender status and treatment, but a Virginia judge Thursday ruled the juvenile offender will no longer have to register as a sex offender due to a ruling technicality.

The teenager will be held in a “residential program” at a psychiatric facility, however.

“The decision is horrific,” Scott Smith, father to one of two victims, told WJLA. “I mean what is not disclosed in his sexual evaluation and his physical evaluation that scared the judge to the point that she ordered him on the sexual registry the first time. That should be enough the first time that it scared a judge enough to order that.”

Smith had told Newsmax‘s “Eric Bolling: The Balance” this month he believed jail time would be too brief and not correct his daughter’s attacker’s future behavior, instead urging prosecutors to issue a sentence for a residential sexual rehabilitation program as long as he would have to register as a sex offender.

But Loudoun County Judge Pamela Brooks granted the defense’s request to drop the sex offender portion of his sentence during a hearing Thursday, saying she made a mistake by accepting an oral and not written motion, according to WJLA.

There is some good news in this story:

New Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares has vowed to investigate the case.

A teenage boy who has committed two sexual assaults needs to be registered as a sex offender.