If you think boys are bad, these vicious girls are something else. . .

[ruthiechan]

Girls Record Brutal Attack On Teen To Allegedly Post On YouTube - News Story - WFTV Orlando

POLK COUNTY, Fla. -- Video was released late Monday afternoon showing a brutal beating at the hands of a gang of teenage girls. Their motivation for the attack was allegedly so they could post the video on YouTube and MySpace.

The victim reported the attack after she was beaten so badly she had to be treated at the hospital. That's when the sheriff's office started looking into it and learned about the video.

The sheriff calls it shocking, saying he's never seen anything like it. It was a vicious attack all captured on home video inside a Polk County home.

When 16-year-old Victoria Lindsay arrived at her friend's house where she had been staying, six girls were waiting. Immediately, they started yelling and one girl began pummeling the victim.

On the video, the girls can be heard encouraging the fight in the background, even taunting Lindsay to fight back, all while one of them held the camera. The victim's family has said it was an elaborate plot to injure and embarrass Victoria Lindsay. Lindsay's parents couldn't believe their daughter had to endure the attack.

"That's my Tori. Don't do that to my Tori," said the victim's mother.

The 16-year-old suffered a concussion, eye injuries and several bruises. During the attack, two others were outside keeping watch according to the sheriff's office.

In fact, the sheriff said, Lindsay was lured into the home for the sole purpose of capturing and posting the video on the Internet. According to the sheriff's office arrest affidavit, Lindsay told deputies they "were going to post the beating on MySpace and YouTube."

Instead, it's the sheriff's office that ended up releasing it to the media and now all eight suspects accused of making it happen are charged with very serious crimes. All suspects face charges for false imprisonment and battery. Three of them were charged with kidnapping because, the sheriff's office said, they forced Lindsay into a car and drove her to another location after the beating.

The suspects were identified as 17-year-old Mercades Nichols, 17-year-old Brittini Hardcastle, 14-year-old April Cooper, 16-year-old Cara Murphy, 17-year-old Britney Mayes and 15-year-old Kayla Hassell. Zachary Ashley, 17, and Stephen Schumaker, 18, were identified by deputies as the lookouts.

"They weren't really involved, I don't know. I'm just overwhelmed by all of it. I don't know why the girls have them involved," said Debbie Shumaker, Stephen's mother.

All six of the girls attend Mulberry High School, according to the sheriff's office arrest affidavit.

[prisonchaplain]

If they were 18 and out of school, they would be looking at more than 10 year prison sentences. We'll see how this plays out.

[crytsprospect]

It is a sad state to see this. where are the parents of these girls aren't they taught responsibility, right and wrong.... I have teenagers and they are lucky to live where we live. Our kids are too busy to get involved in this kind of stuff, personal best is their motto with sports, band, 4h and school and church where is the time to be like this. Its so sad to read this ......

[SMG]

That is evil. Lock these girls up until they are old enough to draw social security checks!! Bullies aren't rational and these girls are bullies, don't mistake it!

[sixpacktr]

The worst part was that the mother of one of these thugs justified the beating.

And we wring our hands, wondering why the country has so many problems...

These girls all deserve time in jail. And not 'Paris Hilton' time either. They are lucky they didn't kill her...

[Palerider]

what makes it even worse is this happened in the girls home who got beat up....the older our country gets the less respect we have for human life.

[Moksha]

what makes it even worse is this happened in the girls home who got beat up....the older our country gets the less respect we have for human life.

I think the opposite is true. No more lynchings. No more gun fights. Such bullying may not have even garnered an arrest back way back when.

[sixpacktr]

I think the opposite is true. No more lynchings. No more gun fights. Such bullying may not have even garnered an arrest back way back when.

How so?? Abortion, particularly partial birth abortion, has definitely devalued the sanctity of life to most.

[MorningStar]

I went to a parenting class over the last couple months and we discussed bullying. Our teacher said we had to worry about our girls more than our boys. She said the girl bullying is especially vicious.