Denise Yusuf.

“I think she’s gone the right way,” a man told reporters during the sentencing, according to the Huffington Post.

Judge Charles Lueck said Yusuf was not culpable because she was in a vulnerable situation during the night of the incident and “she could not have possibly known where she was walking in the area.”

“As the defendant herself testified, she did not have the ability to stop immediately to assess what was going on at the time. She didn’t know to what point the incident was going to escalate, she didn’t know who she was going to be confronting,” he said.

Yusuf was convicted of second-degree assault, a felony, because she “went over the top in an uncontrolled manner,” Lueck said.

Sara Smith, the daughter of victim and accused assailant Richard Smith, said his murder trial was about “shame and humiliation.”

“How do you go around a situation where a child is sexually exploited?” she asked.

Prosecutors also alleged that she “caught” the attacker’s attention with a “cheering chant” that made “the victim look like an old woman trying to run away.”

The defense claimed that Abdul-Majeed had attacked his sister after she had refused to let him get in her bedroom. The defense also said there was no evidence that Yusuf heard the sexual abuse, and the state did not prove that she “knowingly” took up the role of a sex slave.