Two Hartselle men have been ordered to go before school administrators and students at East Limestone and Clements high schools and apologize for entering and ransacking their schools in November of last year.

That order by Limestone County Circuit Judge Jimmy Woodroof was a condition of their sentencing this past week in circuit court.

The two, Alton Walter Wallace, 20, and Stephen Aaron Murphy, 19, both pleaded guilty before Woodroof Monday and received a 10-year sentence each. They were ordered to serve one year on the Limestone Community Corrections Program and were placed on supervised probation for four years.

Limestone County District Attorney Kristi Valls insisted during sentencing that the two issue a public apology before the schools’ student body and the judge agreed.

“It will be left up the principals at East Limestone and Clements on how they want them to do it, but I would like to see them go before the study body in a general assembly and apologize. I think it is good punishment for what they did,” Valls said.

While serving the year in the Limestone Community Corrections Program, Valls said the two must maintain a job and be able to make payments to the schools as part of their restitution.

Both were directed by the judge to pay $1,275 each in restitution to the schools.

“They just broke in and tore up the schools for no apparent reason,” Valls said.

Both men had no prior adult convictions, she said.