come on. after a half hour of this torture, tori is finally released and driven to meet another friend who describes her as having blood in her mouth, a big knot over her left eye. tori s rushed to the hospital. she suffers a concussion, bruising and damage to her left eye and ear. the police are called, and eight teens are arrested. six girls who were inside the home and two guys who stood outside as lookouts. the sheriff s department releases a snippet of the videotape, and it becomes breaking news. let s begin with that ambush in florida. eight florida teens, the youngest just 14. they posted a savage beating on youtube. all eight are accused of kidnapping and battery in the beating attack on a 16-year-old. matt lauer from nbc s today show interviews christina garcia, the mother of mercedes nichols about the beating. what about the actual beating on tape? do you think this has been overblown? i wouldn t say that. mercedes, my daughter warned this girl before she ca
believes the brutal attack was because mercedes was also angry at her for borrowing a hairbrush and a razor from the house without telling her. it may sound unbelievable, but it apparently sparks this beating and sets it in motion. why did you [ bleep ]. don t [ bleep ]. the assault takes place over a span of 30 minutes. at one point on the video, tori pleads with her attackers to let her leave the home. huh-uh. you re not leaving. let me leave! i ll go home. no! but they refuse to release her and continue the vicious assault. don t ever [ bleep ]. why don t you like her? why don t you like her? don t act adding to the brutality of the beating is the fact that someone s videotaping the entire scene. the attackers are not only beating the victim but playing to the camera. the girl holding the video camera says to the others, as if she were directing a motion picture, to make it good. make this 17 seconds good.
why did you [ bleep ]. don t [ bleep ]. the assault takes place over a span of 30 minutes. at one point on the video, tori pleads with her attackers to let her leave the home. huh-uh. you re not leaving. let me leave! i ll go home. no! but they refuse to release her and continue the vicious assault. don t ever [ bleep ]. why don t you like her? why don t you like her? don t act adding to the brutality of the beating is the fact that someone s videotaping the entire scene. the attackers are not only beating the victim but playing to the camera. the girl holding the video camera says to the others, as if she were directing a motion picture, to make it good. make this 17 seconds good. come on. after a half hour of this torture, tori is finally released and driven to meet another friend who describes her as having blood in her mouth, a
as part of a week long investigation to search for debris off flight mh-370. now back to caught on camera. welcome back to caught on camera. i m contessa brewer. the story took the country by storm. an unsuspecting teen lured to a house of horror while two teenage boys stand as lookouts. the girl is badly beaten. but if that isn t terrifying enough, the attackers videotaped the assault, hoping to post it on the internet for their 15 minutes of fame. well, they got fame all right, and some may even get a jail sentence to go with it. this is what the world saw, 16-year-old victoria lindsey, or tori, as her friends called her, being punched, kicked and cursed at in the home of her friend, mercedes nichols.
incident with tori. tori s mother talisa lindsay is outraged. i don t understand it. i don t understand how our society has gotten through peer pressure to our kids that it s okay to act in violence and then want to post it on myspace or youtube or anywhere else just for the entertainment and a laugh. i mean, i don t find it funny at all. myspace issued a statement regarding this case. cyberbullying and harassment are a violation of myspace s terms of use. in order to enforce our terms, myspace reviews every image and video that is hosted on the site. to our knowledge, the mentioned video was never hosted on myspace, however, since the alleged assailant had myspace profiles, we are working with the polk county sheriff s department to assist their investigation. perry aftab, executive director of wiredsafety.com, an internet safety group, understands the lure of these sites for some teenagers. they live a public life where