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Teens beat up girl to make 'popular' YouTube video

TimePublished on Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 18:21, Updated on Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 22:05 in World section

POPULARITY POINTS: The beating was taped so that the video could be uploaded on YouTube.

POPULARITY POINTS: The beating was taped so that the video could be uploaded on YouTube.


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New Delhi: Eight American teenagers in Florida are under arrest for brutally beating up a girl to make a video for the popular Website YouTube.

Police in Lakeland say the victim was beaten up by six girls when she arrived at her friend’s home.

Two boys stood outside and kept a lookout.

The assaulters videotaped it and threatened to post it on the Internet.

The badly-bruised girl was taken to the hospital with a concussion and damage to her left eye and ear.

The victim's father said the girls wanted to create a video that would be popular on the YouTube.

The mother of one of the arrested girls says that the victim provoked the attack by threatening and insulting the girls on their MySpace pages.

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