A couple who terrorised a black child’s eighth birthday party have been have been sentenced to serve 13 years and six years respectively in jail.

According to prosecutors in Georgia, Kayla Norton, 25, and Jose "Joe" Torres, 26, targeted the party only a week after Dylann Roof killed nine worshippers at a black church in Charleston, North Carolina, in July 2015.

Torres and Norton were part of a group of white supremacists who targeted black Americans. Some members are already serving jail sentences.

On this occasion, the “Respect the Flag” group went on a spree around Douglas and Paulding counties, west of Atlanta.

With Confederate flags attached to their pickup trucks, the group arrived at Douglasville where an outdoor children’s party - complete with a bouncy castle - was taking place.

"Victims and witnesses from the party, who were predominantly African-American, testified to observing the group of trucks whose passengers were hurling a litany of racial slurs at them as they passed by," the prosecution said.