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 L
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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.

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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