Eight teenagers have been arrested for brutally beating a fellow teen and putting the tape on Youtube. Victoria Lindsay was attacked on March 30 by six teenage girls when she arrived at a friend’s home, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office said. Two girls confronted Lindsay when she walked in, yelling and threatening her, an arrest report showed. Another girl struck her in the head several times and then slammed her head into the bedroom wall, knocking her unconscious.
“That is animalistic behavior. It’s pack mentality. They lured her there to beat her,” Sheriff Grady Judd said.
When she woke up she was on the couch in the living room surrounded by the six girls. The teens blocked the door, held Lindsay down and began beating her, the report said. Two teenage boys waited outside the home as lookouts.
Portions of the video were released by the sheriff’s office and posted on CBS affiliate WTSP-TV.
All eight were charged last week with battery and false imprisonment, which are third-degree felonies, the report said.
Lindsay was taken to the hospital by ambulance and treated for a concussion, damage to her left eye and left ear, and numerous bruises, the report said.
Lindsay’s mother attributes this brutal attack on insulting comments on the other girl’s Myspaces’. This was a pretty vicious assault for Myspace messages. The attacking girls threatened Lindsay that they were going to put the video on Youtube, but it is uncertain if this full video was ever released.