The eight teenagers charged in the beating of cheerleader Victoria Lindsay will be charged as adults, according to reports Friday.
Six teenage girls from Florida brutally attacked Lindsay, 16, after one of the girls lured her into a home on March 30. Two teenage boys stood outside of the house as lookouts.
The girls videotaped the brutal ambush with the hopes of posting it onto YouTube. Prosecutors released the video this week to show the brutality of the beating.
Lindsay, a varsity cheerleader at Mulberry High School, apparently wrote comments about the girls on the social-networking site MySpace, prompting the beating. She suffered damage to her hearing and eye sight.
All eight teenagers attend Mulberry, which is located in Bartow, Florida.
Mercades Nichols, 17, Britney Mayes, 17, and Brittini Hardcastle, 17, are all being charged with felonious battery, as well as kidnapping and false imprisonment.
Cara Murphy, 16, Kayla Hassell, 15, April Cooper, 14, Zachary Ashley, 17, and Stephen Schumaker, 18, face charges of felonious battery as well as false imprisonment.
The teens will make their first appearance in court on Friday in Polk County. They face a sentence of up to life in prison due to them being charged as adults.
To view the video of the beating, go to http://video.finditt.com/ViewVideo.aspx?fileid=1021
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