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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.

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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.

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I hate people.. Kill all the girls and their parents.

Suzie

grrrrrrrrrrr

HisHoliness

That was so hot.

RecklessTim

I'm glad they were stupid enough to video the whole thing...

I mean think about how stupid you have to be to video yourself committing a crime and wanting to post it on-line...

We need a box of darwin awards right there....

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Mr President;
It has been reported that you are here to "lecture" us on democracy and human rights. But with a record like yours, you will not be very convincing.

HisHoliness

I mean... they are cheerleaders.

Cotton

Yea and one of the mothers is claiming her girl should be released because "she only videoed she didn't hit her."

Edit: and the chick in the pink pants is a little chunky for a cheerleader.

Suzie

Im sure they feel pretty stupid about it now... and I hope they get what they deserve.

Cotton

Nah they didn't feel stupid about it. When I saw it on the news a few of them were laughing as they were being arrested making comments like "will I be out in time for the beach this weekend?"

Suzie

Dana

Wow sickening

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Sneakiecat

I didn't know Mulberry had a high school. I grew up right down the road from there.

Darkstar

Now those chicks I'd high kick in the face, cheerleader style.

I'll even let ya'll tape it.

HisHoliness

Small school? No wonder their cheerleaders are ugly.

Sneakiecat

There's about 3000 people and not much else in the town. But the phosphate museum was pretty cool when I was little

SRC

Kids these days aren't just mean to each other anymore .. they are down right cruel/brutal.

I wonder though .. why they decided they needed to do this? The girl who got beaten up must have done something to rile these girls up enough to cause this .. I mean, you don't just get together and say "eh I'm bored, wanna beat the crap out of Victoria today, video tape it, and then we can post it on YouTube .. what do y'all think .. good idea?"

Something else was going down in preqil to this happening. Cheerleaders are among some of the most competitive creatures on this planet .. their social "clique" is unlike any other.

Don't get me wrong now .. I don't think the girl should have gotten a beat down like that .. but it just makes me wonder why those girls decided to do something like that to her in efforts to publicly humiliate her (hence the want to post it on YouTube for all to see), something tells me the girl who received the beating isn't completely the little miss innocent the media is playing her out to be.

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