Teens Arrested Over Taped Beating
Source: The Associated Press
Posted: 04/09/08 8:23AM
Filed Under: Crime Files
LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) - Eight Florida teenagers have been arrested on charges alleging they beat another teen so they could make a videotape to post on YouTube.
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Eight teenagers have been arrested after filming the beating of another teen and threatening to post the video on the Internet, sheriff's officials said. |
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Seven of them remain in juvenile detention while an eighth, a boy charged as an adult, has been released on bail.
Police say Victoria Lindsay was attacked March 30 by six teenage girls when she arrived at a friend's home.
A police arrest report says one of the girls struck the 16-year-old victim on the head several times and then slammed her head into a wall, knocking her unconscious.
A clip of the video released by the Polk County sheriff's office shows the teens blocking a door and hitting Victoria.
Sheriff Grady Judd called it an absolutely "animalistic attack." He told NBC's "Today" show that the girl was lured to the home "for express purpose of filming the attack and posting it on the Internet."
Victoria's father, Patrick Lindsay, said the teens intended to post the video on the video-sharing website YouTube.
Christina Garcia, mother of one of the defendants, said her daughter turned the tape over to police.
The sheriff's office said that after the attack, three of the teens forced the victim into a vehicle and drove her to another location, where she was told she would be given a worse beating if she contacted police.
All eight suspects were arrested April 2 and charged with battery and false imprisonment. The three teens who took Lindsay to the second location are also charged with felony kidnapping.
Lindsay was treated for a concussion, damage to her left eye and left ear, and numerous bruises, police said.
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