Meet Victoria Lindsay, the cheerleader who allegedly took a nasty beating from her friends, all to make a YouTube video. You can view the video here and see her photos.
Her name as well as the tape was released by the sheriff’s department, presumably to educate the public about this cheerleader beating and protect this from happening in your neighborhood. The names of all of the alleged juvenile attackers have also been printed in the media.
As an update, the latest news is that Dr. Phil is in hot water because his staff bailed out one of the accused teenagers from prison for $33,000. The bail was supposedly in exchange for Mercades Nichols agreeing to an exclusive interview on the Dr. Phil show. Ridiculous. The show has backtracked in the face of negative publicity.
As a biography, she is a 16-year old cheerleader who attends Mulberry High School in Lakeland, Florida. Although Lindsay is an honor student, she reportedly has some growing up problems. She was staying at the grandmother’s house of a friend rather than her parents at the time of the attack. Our comment section includes remarks by some girlfriends who know Ms. Lindsay.
Victoria’s cheerleader pals apparently decided it would be cool to post a violent YouTube video, so six of the girls supposedly cornered her in a friend’s house while two boys stood watch outside the house.
It appears from the video that they tried to coax Victoria Lindsay into a brawl so that the video would look like two girls fighting and nobody would know who started it. But that plan backfired because Victoria did not fight back. She covered her head with her hands while she was verbally assaulted and slowly beaten more aggressively as the altercation continued.
Her injuries include a concussion, lacerations, loss of hearing and blurry vision. She has still not recovered completely in the local hospital. She endured the attack for 35-minutes
These high school girls are probably going to have hell to pay. All six plus the boys have been arrested for various charges including aggravated assault, false imprisonment, and kidnapping. Despite how this looks, please remember that the girls are innocent until proven guilty.
Victoria’s parents have spoken out in a YouTube video you can watch here.
This is also my plug for martial arts. Although it would not have helped against six girls she clearly could have kicked the main instigator’s butt and it might have made the other girls think twice.
Women should not feel so helpless in a situation like this, which could have been a lot worse in a public park at night. Victoria Lindsay is thin and should have some tools available to defend herself in any situation. So go ask your mom to sign you up for a martial arts class today.
Unfortunately Victoria Lindsay’s alleged attackers addresses and phone numbers have been copied around on blogs and forums as well. We consider this an invasion of privacy and have removed at least two comments with phone numbers in our article just as fast as we can. In fact, some of the data that is being printed on the internet is wrong and has ended up tormenting at least once unrelated family. We had the eight names and removed them because of this reason, and we removed references to a blog purporting to be Mercedes Nichols blog because it may be faked.
The video is below with photos.
Video source: Trans World News
April 26th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
THOSE girls are so dumb?
how could they do that over myspace.
if i were jer i wouldnt of faught back either
because if you hit one they would all come
after and she would most likely be dead.
i think each one of them should be put in a
room and beat up as badly as the same degree
that she did and see how they like it.
bi*****
April 27th, 2008 at 9:26 am
those girls are just jealous because lindsay is beautiful and their all busted and fat
have fun in jail losers!
April 27th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Omg they only deserve to die D:< Dumsh*ts!
Seriously they have no brain our what -.-!
April 28th, 2008 at 8:23 am
all i can say is…..american kids live too good. best therapy…..one year in manila. scrubbing pots and pans, without a bedroom for themselves, no tv, no pocket money, no shopping, no friends staying over, no chance to smooch with boyfriends [let alone have sex], no right to talk back to parents [or you get slapped]. in other words….live like a normal teenager there. just one year, and they’ll be glad they’re back here and realize what a good life they have and messing it up.
April 28th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
i live in germany and saw the video just two days ago (the whole thing wasn´t such a hype here, but youtube and myspace are popular here as well). first reaction: jump in it to help this lonely girl. where the hell was her guardian angel during these minutes? there must be something wrong with the kids today. instead of helping each other and fighting back the danger the world prepares for them, they struggle each other and weak themselves. i hope that victoria will be healthy as quick as she can and hopefully she will live a “normal” life afterwards. greetings to her from germany.
April 28th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Soo… who else is thinking of taking a trip to Lakeland, Florida? Not to take in the sights or anything… but to put some major hurting on 8 people?
April 29th, 2008 at 9:34 am
where did the kidnap part came from? or how did they “kidnap” her..
April 29th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
to chris: are there things like that in your country? the world is gettin smaller with things like the net but behaviour not better, ey? to mary: book one ticket more, please. to the kidnap: driving through wonderful town after beating Victoria is what they called kidnapping.
May 4th, 2008 at 1:17 am
And people wonder why the world is so stupid……It’s because parents allow their children to do this sh** to people and then back them up. I could care less if the girl did talk sh**t on her myspace, If you have a problem you go at them 1 on 1…Not 6 on 1 like a bunch of fu***** idiots. Now thanks to them the girl will never be the same anyway you look at it. The kids and their parents need the shit slapped out of their face.
– Jay.
May 5th, 2008 at 9:05 am
All I have to say to all these girls is all of you deserve to go to prison for what you have done I have watched that beating so many times it makes me sick to see what our teens have became today. I wish Victoria could let them Girls feel what she has felt all of the emberrisment the pain but most of all the beating. To Victoria I hope you get better soon.