Court battle
Ivan and his friend didn’t really have any legal representation that was doing a good job of defending them. They were more or less throwing themselves to the mercy of the judge. He didn’t want to give them such a harsh punishment, after all, they were still very young at the time.
So instead, the judge ordered the boys to do some community service as a result of their terrible act of vandalism. At first, Ivan and his friend thought that it wasn’t going to be a big deal, but they soon found out it was. This was no walk in the park, it was brutal.