8 teens arrested in beating of Lakeland girl

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.

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.

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.

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.

The video and a transcript of the incident will be released early this week, sheriff's spokesman Scott Wilder told The Ledger of Lakeland. It's not immediately clear if the video was ever posted on the Internet.

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[Mizz Charm]

im watching the lifetime movie base on this right now

[Nick W]

Can you believe this cunt only got 15 days in jail and 3 months probation...

Fucking Bullshit

She should do 364 days hard in the county , getting fucked by some dike with random chess pieces

[OhHbrenda97]

@FGClbi yes its called Girl Fight

[FGCIbi]

What movie is that? is it by any chance ''Girls fight''?

[7sugarskull7]

im watching the lifetime movie based on this, its fucked up that these girls did that! and by her posting something negative BEFORE she was friends with them is more immature and makes me sick

[tatianalaurenn]

fuck all those bitches they shouldve gotten at least 5 years prision hope they all get a taste of their own medicene

[Rachael Knapp]

This story is what inspired the movie girl fight.

[amberbrotton1992]

You know what this remindes me of a movie called girl fight.. but in the movie there was only 5 not 8 and that movie is based on a true story... its so sad and the only reason it happened was cause of a post that happened on Facebook that was posted like a while before they be came friends. And the girls wanted their halt a hour fame

[workalot23]

if it was me id beat the shit out them bitches . 

[zebro1243]

I can't believe it actually happened it took me a while to find it I just saw the movie

[anne91276]

These girls are acting like bullies. When a bully strikes out against an innocent victim, the bully takes advantage of that victim and that will cause a lot of retribution by the victim's family toward the bullies and their families. I was teased by this one boy who happened to be deaf. And of course, then victims then become bullies and they will eventually bully someone else. The whole point of this is that this bullying can lead to a lengthy chain of events. Its time, we break that pattern.

[scrumptiousx3]

WOW Lifetime was really nice with the actresses they picked. Made them look way better.