in florida. eight florida teens, the youngest just 14. they posted a savage beating on youtube. all eight are accused of kidnapping and battery in the beating attack on a 16-year-old. matt lauer from nbc s today show interviews christina garcia, the mother of mercedes nichols about the beating. what about the actual beating on tape? do you think this has been overblown? i wouldn t say that. mercedes, my daughter warned this girl before she came into the house. the two girls that you have been running your mouth about over myspace and threatening are in the house. please do not go in the house. relatives of the other suspects also speak out. she is a very good person, and she s my baby girl, period. if y all saw the video, it was a one-on-one fight. there was no gang beating. it s our sheriff trying to show this. that s all it is. sheriff grady judd doesn t buy it. he says that videotape speaks for itself. i was outraged. i mean, when you looked at the violence,
an unsuspecting teen lured to a house of horror while two teenage boys stand as lookouts. the girl is badly beaten. but if that isn t terrifying enough, the attackers videotaped the assault, hoping to post it on the internet for their 15 minutes of fame. well, they got fame all right, and some may even get a jail sentence to go with it. this is what the world saw, 16-year-old victoria lindsey, or tori, as her friends called her, being punched, kicked and cursed at in the home of her friend, mercedes nichols. ooh, yeah, baby. ooh, yeah. the beating is an ambush. tori had spent a week at nichols place in lakeland, florida, because she allegedly is having problems at home. so why would mercedes and five other girls turn so viciously on tori? polk county sheriff grady judd. this all erupted as a result of our victim supposedly trash
matt lauer from nbc s today show interviews christina garcia, the mother of mercedes nichols about the beating. what about the actual beating on tape? do you think this has been overblown? i didn t say that. mercedes, my daughter warned this girl before she came into the house. the two girls that you have been running your mouth about over myspace and threatening are in the house. please do not go in the house. relatives of the other suspects also speak out. she is a very good person, and she s my baby girl, period. if y all saw the video, it was a one-on-one fight. there was no gang beating. it s our sheriff trying to show boat this. that s all it is. sheriff grady judd doesn t buy it. he says that videotape speaks for itself. i was outraged. i mean when you look at the
the assault, hoping to post it on the internet for their 15 minutes of fame. well, they got fame all right, and some may even get a jail sentence to go with it. this is what the world saw, 16-year-old victoria lindsey, or tori, as her friends called her, being punched, kicked and cursed at in the home of her friend, mercedes nicholls. ooh, yeah, baby. ooh, yeah. the beating is an ambush. tori had spent a week at nichols place in lakeland, florida, because she allegedly is having problems at home. so why would mercedes and five other girls turn so viciously on tori? polk county sheriff grady judd. this all erupted as a result of our victim supposedly trash talking these other girls on her myspace account and through text messages. you can hear one of the girls
on youtube. all eight are accused of kidnapping and battery in the beating attack on a 16-year-old. matt lauer from nbc s today show interviews christina garcia, the mother of mercedes nichols about the beating. what about the actual beating on tape? do you think this has been overblown? i wouldn t say that. mercedes, my daughter warned this girl before she came into the house. the two girls that you have been running your mouth about over myspace and threatening are in the house. please do not go in the house. relatives of the other suspects also speak out. she is a very good person, and she s my baby girl, period. if y all saw the video, it was a one-on-one fight. there was no gang beating. it s our sheriff trying to show this. that s all it is. sheriff grady judd doesn t buy it. he says that videotape speaks for itself. i was outraged. i mean, when you looked at the violence, when you looked at the