Ky Teen Sexual Assault Court Records to be Opened, Judge Rules

David Mejia, one of the boys' lawyers, filed a contempt motion against Dietrich, and she faced 180 days in jail for violating the confidentiality of the juvenile court. Mejia said the contempt motion was not to jail or punish Dietrich, but to have a judge force her to delete the tweet with his client's name and stop her from posting.

"I was hoping she would even have some remorse or an apology to give," he told "Nightline." "That didn't happen."

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Instead, press coverage of Dietrich's plight went viral and began trending on the blogosphere. Dietrich's online petition to have the contempt charges dropped received 50,000 signatures within 24 hours, making it one of the fastest growing petitions on Change.org.

As a result, the boys' lawyers withdrew the contempt motion, but not before there was a tidal wave of backlash against the two boys.

"It has been just more incredibly difficult than I can describe going from just living this high school boy life, student athlete, popular kid, to suddenly having his name all over the country described as a rapist which isn't even the charge," Mejia said of his client. "He has gotten contacts, calls, letters. He's been threatened and it's absolutely just destroyed whatever normal life he had."

The boys will be sentenced on Sept. 14.