Teenagers trying to make their mark via YouTube have taken it too far. Eight teens attacked a girl when she arrived at a friend’s house.  They then proceeded to beat her - taping the whole thing in order to gain fame by posting the video on YouTube.
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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 father said the teens’ motivation for the attack was to produce a video that would become popular on YouTube, a video-sharing Web site.
But the mother of one of the girls said that Lindsay had provoked the other teens by threatening and insulting them on MySpace, a social networking Web site.
After the girls were arrested, Christina Garcia told the newspaper she looked at Lindsay’s MySpace page and saw the message: “hahaha all in jail.”
“A lot of people think, ‘I can say whatever I want on here and nobody’s gonna say anything,’” Garcia said. “A fight is a fight, but this was a beatdown. She did not deserve what she got, but I don’t know how she’s that messed up and able to get on the computer and talk about that.”
It’s not immediately clear if the video was ever posted on the Internet.
April 9th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
April 12th, 2008 at 5:17 am
The finger pointing and blame placing on You Tube for the behavior of these young people is ridiciulous. You Tube was not there when they got the idea that the best way to become famous was to do something stupid and hurtful to someone else. Nor was You Tube there when they planned this misdeed, executed it, beat the pulp out of that child, then giggled and uploaded it to You Tube.
What you have here are young sociopaths, spoiled brats that think they can have everything they want at the expense of others, and parents that are obviously ineffective at teaching their children proper self respect, morals, family values and respect for others. Now if anyone should be blamed, it should be the PARENTS of those young people. Because somewhere they dropped the ball and this is the result.