MARSHALL COUNTY, Kansas, July 3, 2008 - "They basically tied him up," foster parent Michael Wertz said. "Painted his arms and legs white. They put a bucket on his head. The urinated on him."

It is what happened last May to Wertz's foster child in Marshall county. It such a shocking case, that 19-year-old David Endsley and Isaac Clark are facing years in prison after pleading guilty to a federal hate crime. Their victim was the only black student at Valley Heights High in Marshall County.

"I couldn't believe they would do that to another student," Wertz said.

According to the FBI, Kansas ranks 33rd in the country for the number of hate crimes committed. Since 2003, the state's numbers have continued to climb. In fact, they have increased by 44.9 percent.

"Hate crimes usually comes from some ignorance and from this deep seated sort of anger," Wichita psychologist Molly Allen said.

Allen says most hate crimes are committed by a group of people.  In Marshall county, multiple boys participated in the humiliation of the black student. Humiliation that can and will lead to a permanent mental scar for the victim.

"That can literally create a lifetime of more anger, more insecurities, and more resentment," Dr. Allen said.

Michael Wertz says that is just what happened to his foster child.

"Of course it ruined that boys head," Wertz said. "His way of thinking changed, and he was just impossible to deal with."

David Endsley and Isaac Clark, the boys responsible for the crime, will be sentenced in September.