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
May 5th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
I read a lot of comments about how Tori didn’t fight back…it was the smartest thing she could have done. They all would have went even more psyco on her if she had fought back. there were six of them and one of her, even if she was a black belt in marital arts, she would have got worse if she’d fueled the fire.
Her instincts took over and she did what she had to do to survive. If you have ever been jumped by a gang, you would know I guess. It happens more often than people realize, happened when I was a kid, only we didn’t have video cams and all this other technology.
If you ask me, its the pack of girls that are the weak ones, couldn’t confront tori one on one.
May 16th, 2008 at 10:27 am
those girls shud burn in hellllllllllll that was stupid they must really be retarted if they thoughtthey wouldn’t get caught posting the vid on the internet they make me SICK
May 16th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
this is horrible
these girls should burn in hell !
i just hate to look at this a think that they
“kidnaped” this poor child !
and beat her almost half to death
my message to them would be:
your fat and your mother dresses you funny !
-BR!TN3Y
May 22nd, 2008 at 3:43 pm
How many people like “Susan Davis” are left in the world? Only old hags blame websites and the media!!! Victoria probably deserved it seeing as how she assaulted her own mother prior to this happening. Children need to learn accountability… she ran her mouth on myspace and got what was coming to her. Victoria WILLINGLY entered that house KNOWING she had ran her mouth about the people she was with! It sounds to me like another classic case of dumbass syndrome. I can’t get over how stupid she is or all the hype this has gotten. More girls her age need their asses beat so they can get their noses out of the air and come back to earth… stupid little whUres (don’t deserve the O).
May 23rd, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Shane, you’re like a sub-retard, huh? Get that nose bent out of joint while you’re living in the myspace world, huh? Trouble with girls, huh? Outside of your 13 year old’s world, people deal with the crap people say on a regular basis. Boggles the mind, huh?
On the other hand, when people actually TOUCH other people in the wrong way, that’s when the crap hits the fan. And with the exception of your generation, it doesn’t require six people to take care of it. But you’ll figure that out when you capture some cred.
May 25th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
ooooo!!
i would of beat the crap out of that girl in the pink.she is fat anyways!! all them girls are jelous!oh and there so tough 6 agaist 1!!!!
May 26th, 2008 at 7:00 am
ah i wish that guy talking would shut the hell up so i can understand whats going on
May 26th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
This is horrible. It actually brought me to tears. I’m 15 and i can’t imagine anything like this ever happening to me. The poor girl, it doesn’t matter what she’d done to them this is sickening. And why that one girl cared so much about why Victoria didn’t like her friends, you’re entitled to you opinion. The things that she now has to suffer is dispicable. I would have been scared to leave the house, with those two boys standing outside. This is the worst thing i have ever seen.
May 28th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Burn in Hell b******… you have whats coming to you. This video infuriates me. This is what happens when “kids” have “kids” and dont raise them right. YOu get a bunch of hood rats roaming the streets with parents who think they are “cool” because they dont give their children rules or authority. What has society come to these days?!?!? People need to grow up and take responsibility for them selves. Parents TAKE THE TIME TO TEACH YOUR CHILDREN RIGHT FROM WRONG. .. …. these girls knew right from wrong though. How could you beat a girl over and over and feel nothing??? Get the devil out of you…. or you will forever be doomed. I hope these teenage girls rot in Jail where they belong. If they wanna fight.. thats the perfect place for them to be. … Get over yourselves girls… your just jealous of her cuz ur fat and ugly.. and Victoria was skinny and beautiful…. Jealousy and Envy will haunt you …. as it should..
peace!
May 29th, 2008 at 11:09 am
thats really sad because she was outnubered in the first place i feel really sorry for her and hope she feals much much better… now i hope the rot in prison and get beat really reall bad worse than you did. im really sorry that happened to you