New Girl Beating Video Posted Online

(CBS/AP)  A group of middle school girls videotaped the beating of a 12-year-old schoolmate and posted it on the Internet in an attack that authorities believe was inspired by a similar one in Florida, police said.

No charges have been filed and police said they have not yet interviewed all the girls, ages 12-14, who are students at Clarksville Middle School in Indiana. The girls' identities were not released because they are juveniles.

The victim, who was treated for cuts and bruises at a hospital, was the daughter of a police officer, said Police Chief Dwight Ingle.

Ingle told CBS' The Early Show that the girls were using rocks as weapons.

"You can actually hear the rocks thumping on the skull of the victim," he said.

Police said the girls lured the victim to a parking lot near a warehouse in the town just north of Louisville, Ky., on April 12 and beat her up. The violence was videotaped and later posted on the video-sharing Web site PhotoBucket, Ingle said. It has since been removed.

The video begins with one girl arguing with the victim and escalates into a fight during which the 12-year-old is repeatedly hit in the head as other girls watch and laugh, police said.

Detective Darrell Rayborn said Thursday police believed the plot was inspired by a similar scheme in which a group of teenage girls in central Florida posted the videotaped beating of a 16-year-old victim online. Parts of that video have been widely seen on TV and YouTube.

Clarksville school Superintendent Stephen G. Fisher said he did not anticipate disciplinary action against the students because the fight did not occur on school grounds.

[ranger1948]

happy_dan
You write a good article for someone so young. I agree it was a mistake to take religion out of the schools and i respect everyones right to their beliefs about religion. I however spent 56 years looking for answers in christianity and was not satisfied. I found what i was looking for in Budhism. Personally whether you worship God, Budha, Allah or what ever you call him, i think we will find he is one and the same just with different names. My biggest thing i didn''t agree with in christianity was they''re saying animals do not have souls. The animals i have seen usually have more soul than most people. I am in Thailand now and we have a lot of cobra''s here. I have had several experiences with them and even bitten once. Budha teaches to live in harmony with all things. When i find a cobra i give it to the red cross snake farm in Bangkok. I know it will have a good home and they provide antivenom for the people here. I have also seen if you give a cobra his space he only wants to get away from you. He bites to defend himself or when he feels threatened.

[me_nz]

The US needs learn from the experience we have had of this in the UK and to clamp on this fast via the ISP providers. We have had a fad here for some time called "Happy Slapping". This is where gangs of young people (yobs) go about beating up people including inflicting GBH (grievous bodily harm) manslaughter and murder. They film these attacks usually with mobile phones and post them on websites for entertainment e.g. UTube and Face book. I have been threatened with 1 of these attacks myself and only just managed to fight my attackers off. It is a cycle, which feeds of itself with young people trying to out do each other with the ferocity and length of the attacks to post on the websites. It is aided and abetted by the websites having no effective policing of the content posted on them and an unwillingness to do so. They go on about freedom of speech and censorship etc. It is also aided by a weak justice system e.g. where young perpetrators e.g. under 18 are not allowed to be identified (named and shamed) and might only be convicted of manslaughter for a gang attack e.g. kicking someone to death. For this they might be sentenced to 5 years in prison (which is more like a holiday camp) but be out in 21 months on early release. The lesson is get early tough and stay tough and force the Internet sites to police this stuff before you have a real problem otherwise it could snowball.

[happy_dan]

o my bad I did not give contact info...
[e-mail]
http://www.dittytalk.com/PraiseGodThoughTheRain
Also can be found on Faith Freaks, Fallensword, Duels, http://www.knightfight.co.uk/index.php, I think thats it.
But really feel free to have at it.

(man they really should have an edit button I should have been a little nicer. I personally apologize for being so mean but I do not apologize for what I meant. Just how I said it.)

[happy_dan]

o my bad I did not give contact info...
[e-mail]
http://www.dittytalk.com/PraiseGodThoughTheRain
Also can be found on Faith Freaks, Fallensword, Duels, http://www.knightfight.co.uk/index.php, I think thats it.
But really feel free to have at it.

(man they really should have an edit button I should have been a little nicer. I personally apologize for being so mean but I do not apologize for what I meant. Just how I said it.)

[happy_dan]

I cannot believe that no one mentioned something to the like of...
Violence is not ok, however yes it is normal.
Sadly yes.
Now what no one has said:
PATHETIC here you stand on top of a home made box trying to down everyone else, when you are saying these people can''t raise their kids right they need a good dose of old days. Old days weren''t nice! Where did people go wrong...when they we born from Adam and Eve...Cain and Able?...They knew God...Take a look at Genesis 34. Thats pretty violent. My goodness ISRAEL''s sons did not know God? Maybe you should...well gosh...actually read your bible. You say they were raised wrong, how the heck could Noah raise his kids wrong? He was the only one left to survive. If old days raised thier kids right we would not have fighting unless... FIGHTING IS NORMAL!
Now to all those who think this problem is related to refusing God. I am an inner city kid. I live 15 minutes from North Minneapolis, AKA Murderapolis. I go to a school with student that were kicked out of the public schools cause they got in so many fights. The worst among them would not drop a Bible on ACCIDENT for fear of God''s wrath. How about you people pay attention to a little thing called realality then try to say something. When I grow up I hope to be just like you, so pathetic that I have to latch onto God to get mad at people instead of actually reading my Bible. And yes I have read Romans 12 so please don''t shout that in my face.

[memerider]

Time to tighten the supervision of kids. We were much more closely supervised at that age to avoid things like this. There were some mean girls when I was a child, but it was easier to stay away from them.

[DocD--2008]

%u201CThe schools do not have jurisdiction for actions that occur off of school property. They are ONLY responsible for things that happen on school property or at school events.%u201D

Posted by AR_Teacher

Wrong. In most states, schools are responsible for the kids from the time they leave for school till the time they return home from school. Schools also have the right to not let violent kids that may be a threat to other students attend their campus period.

[lpro65]

Hmmm....maybe if mothers tried actually raising their daughters to be decent human beings instead of snotty little monstrous bee-atches these types of things wouldn''t happen. But no..mommy wants to live through their daughters vicariously and be their best friend. Look at what happened to young girls like Britney, Lilo, etc. Granted they are celebrities but this trend trickles down. Meaning that girls now feel no sense of responsibilite for their own actions....

[libsrweak]

and by the way, the liberal media IS complicating matters by hiding and twisting the true meaning of ''freedom of speech and expression'' for financial gain..

[libsrweak]

The School Superintendent does not anticipate disciplinary actions because the attack did not take place in school ground??? I dont get it!!


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Posted by enzoc45 at 11:05 AM : Apr 22, 2008
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if you cannot comprehend who is repsonsible for these 12 year olders..THEN IT BEST YOU STAY AWAY..