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What would happen to a minor if he were convicted of DDOS attacks?

DDOS Attacks: A Distributed Denial of Service Attack — This is the contribution to a large scale attack of a website along with other users or other computers.

Some Information That I Found on Prosecuting Computer Crimes (For Adults): https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/criminal-ccips/legacy/2015/01/14/ccmanual.pdf
-DDOSing Would Fall Under Damaging a Computer or Information: 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(5) [Page 35]-

If the minor could convince the judge that he needed extra enrichment, due to a high IQ (top 0.75% or ~145), could the person convicted receive the extra enrichment?

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