Should they be pull from myspace and youtube? I'm pretty sure this particular beating is still floating around. It was even on CNN this morning. I say keep 'em up. Helluva lot easier to catch 'em this way

Mulberry Cheerleader Recovering From Beating
EIGHT CHARGED WITH FELONY BATTERY

A GIRL ATTACKS 16-YEAR-OLD VICTORIA LINDSAY while others watch and one records the assault on March 30. This image is a photo of a TV screen playing a recording released by the Polk County Sheriff's Office.

By Jeremy Maready
The Ledger

MULBERRY
A battered and bruised Victoria Lindsay will not be returning to public school following an incident in which six other girls have been accused of videotaping a beating of the 16-year-old Mulberry High cheerleader.
While a week has passed since the pummeling, Lindsay is still recovering from a concussion and has not fully regained her hearing and vision on her left side.

On March 30 about 8:30 p.m., the victim arrived at Nichols' house and was greeted by Nichols and another girl. Lindsay went into the bedroom where she was staying, and a third girl, April Cooper, 14, began to insult and threaten her, then hit her in the face several times and slammed her head into a wall, which knocked her unconscious.

When Lindsay awoke, she was on the living room couch surrounded by six girls who took turns punching and kicking her while the beating was video taped. Lindsay told investigators that the six blocked the door, held her down and beat her for a half-hour. Her left ear and eye were injured during the ambush, authorities said.

But as swelling subsides, doctors hope those will return, her parents said Monday.

"When I saw my daughter in the emergency room, I didn't recognize my own daughter," said Patrick Lindsay, Victoria's father.Almost immediately, he handed her a pen and paper to write down the names of who was responsible and how it all happened to give to police.

"She was in fear for her life,'' he said. "She thought she was going to die."

Polk Sheriff Grady Judd said Monday the argument between the teens erupted from "trash talking" on MySpace and through text messaging. The Sheriff's Office declined to elaborate on what specifically was said, citing its ongoing investigation.
But Judd said the video was created for use on YouTube and MySpace, which has become a growing trend among teens.

"This is animalistic behavior," he said while showing a clip of the recorded video at a press conference Monday. "That is pack mentality."

"It's incumbent upon YouTube and MySpace to make drastic changes," Judd said. "If we desensitize kids to this kind of beating today, what's next?"

According to investigators, Lindsay was attacked about 8:30 p.m. on March 30 by April Cooper, Cara Murphy, Britney Mayes, Brittini Hardcastle, Kayla Hassell and Mercades Nichols, while two boys, Zachary Ashley and Stephen Schumaker, stood outside the house as lookouts.

The girls and Ashley ranged in age from 14 to 17 years old.

(From top left) April Cooper, Britney Mayes, Cara Murphy, Brittini Hardcastle, Kayla Hassell and Mercades Nichols, Zachary Ashley and Stephen Schumaker,

All have been arrested and charged with felony battery and false imprisonment. The single adult, Schumaker, 18, was taken to the Polk County Jail and has since been released on bail.

The Sheriff's Office said after the 35-minute beating, Lindsay was put into a car and taken to South Lakeland, near the intersection of Lakeland Highlands Road and County Road 540A.

Mayes, Hardcastle, and Nichols, who deputies said forced Lindsay into a vehicle and drove her around, will also be charged with felony kidnapping, sheriff's officials said.

Judd has asked the State Attorney's Office to charge all the teens as adults.
"But that's not my decision," he said.

Lindsay, her father acknowledges, wasn't perfect and had her share of problems, and was not living at home at the time of the incident.

After an argument with her parents, Lindsay had been living with Nichols for about a week when the beating occurred.

While she was well-liked among her friends, an honor student and maintained a job, her father said, she also had a history of anger problems.

A few years ago she had a fight with her mother, and had been put on probation, he said.
Judd said investigators suspect there were as many five video clips of the incident taken by more than one camera. Investigators have only been able to track down one. That video, which was made available to the media, shows several girls taunting and hitting Lindsay, who was not seen fighting back. Judd said the video obtained by investigators shows only the latter half of what happened. What happened earlier isn't part of the video.

Following their arrests the girls joked in a holding cell. One asked if she would be able to make it to cheerleading practice the next day, while several others joked that they wouldn't be making it back to the beach anytime soon, he said.

"They seemed to have absolutely no remorse at all," Judd said. "They were just going to beat her. And beat her they did."

Am i the only one that wants to see the video at least? That picture is just a tease.

the video is still on youtube.

here:

That's crazy.

Girls really can't fight.

Girls fuckin fight dirty.

Thanks for the vid link cb.

she didn't look that injured...

you know what's crazy...

the girl doing all the beating is MY FORMER DOORGIRL!

That's awesome. Totally awesome.

Huh?

exactly

you don't want to know, trust me.

Yes, i do.

That video was a let down.

that's a small clip. They banged her head off the room for over a half hour. No wonder she can't see.

My roommate told me about this this morning. Olo

She can't see? They beat her until she was blind?

That really is pretty crazy that they continued to beat her for a half hour even after she lost consciousness. There's got to be a point where you say "ok, that's enough". Especially considering she wasn't even fighting back.

bitches need to be put down.

anon already has personal info.

is he a cleaner?

*edit* well, there WAS a vid on youtube that just listed names, addresses, and phone numbers of all the girls...but it's been pulled.
there are a few sites that have the info still though, as well as the myspace IDs (but most of them have their profiles set to prvate...not that i would look try to look at their profiles or anything )

UPDATE!

Girls Charged In Brutal Videotaped Beating To Be Tried As Adults

POSTED: 11:46 am EDT April 10, 2008
UPDATED: 12:02 pm EDT April 10, 2008

POLK COUNTY, Fla. -- Eyewitness News learned Thursday that prosecutors will charge the seven Polk County girls at the center of a violent beating as adults.

The group is accused of attacking a 16-year-old girl and recording the act so they could post it on the Internet. They'll now face battery and kidnapping charges as adults and the kidnapping charge could be punishable with life in prison.

Three of the girls were also charged with tampering with a witness.

The suspect’s first appearances in court are set for Friday afternoon.


I see it now, it's just a matter of time before some teenager gets the gas chamber. USA! USA!

i think all of 'em should get the death penalty. by firing squad or public hanging, preferably.