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8 arrested in beating of 16-year-old Lakeland cheerleader
The video is shocking: A teenage girl is repeatedly beaten and taunted as other teenagers shout in the background. "Make this 17 seconds good," one yells toward the video's end.
The teens arrested and accused of participating in the videotaped beating engaged in "animalistic behavior,"Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said in a press conference Monday.
"It's pack mentality," he said. "They lured her there to beat her."
They are Nichols, Cooper, Brittni Hardcastle, 17, Kayla Hassell, 15, Brittany Mayes, 17, Cara Murphy, 16, Zachary Ashley, 17, and Stephen Schumaker, 18. All are from Lakeland except Hassell, who is from Mulberry.
Mayes, Hardcastle and Nichols also were arrested on charges of felony kidnapping for forcing the victim into the car and driving her to another location.
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They wanted to post the video on the net. What were they thinking the video would do for them?
Life in prison. :saint: