VICTORIA LINDSAY: "I'm known as the girl who got her butt kicked all over the Internet."

      Airdate: Monday, November 10, 2008

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New York, NY - Nov. 7, 2008 - INSIDE EDITION speaks exclusively with Victoria Lindsay, the 16-year-old cheerleader from Mulberry, FL who was videotaped and beaten by six classmates on March 30, 2008.

Investigators say the video footage of the beatings were intended to be posted on MySpace and YouTube, but police seized the video once arrests were made.  The sheriff's office distributed part of the video clip to the media, which has now been widely viewed on national television and the Internet.   

Lindsay, who endured a thirty minute beating, tells INSIDE EDITION about the national attention she received from this incident. 

LINDSAY: "I'm known as the girl who got her butt kicked all over the Internet."

Lindsay explains that the violence was triggered by typical high school jealousies over boyfriends.  Invited to the home of one of her classmates, she tells INSIDE EDITION that she was confronted once she arrived.

LINDSAY: "I walked into the bedroom . . . right then I knew something was up and that something bad was about to happen to me."

Lindsay tells INSIDE EDITION that the teenagers hurled insults and moments later sees the camera.

LINDSAY: "I knew it was just going to go downhill from there."

She is struck more than forty times.  And, according to Lindsay, the teens refused to let her go home.

LINDSAY: "I asked the whole time, ‘Please let me go. Please give me a phone.' And they just mocked me, and laughed at me like it was some kind of show."

Lindsay, who had never seen the entire video until she watched it with INSIDE EDITION, talks about how the teens mocked her.

IE: "Sometimes the girls holding the camera are laughing."

LINDSAY: "Yes, they think it's hysterical that they are humiliating me."

Lindsay explains to INSIDE EDITION why she didn't fight back, even though the attackers urged her to do so.

LINDSAY: "It wouldn't have got any better. They could have killed me if I fought back."

After the beatings, Lindsay was dropped off at a shopping mall.

Lindsay, who was hospitalized in the intensive care unit, was treated for a concussion, damage to her left eye and numerous bruises.

LINDSAY: "My lips were pretty gashed up. My ear felt like something was stuck in it, and I couldn't hear out of it. And my eye was blurry and my nose was just bleeding."

Her father, Patrick Lindsay, tells INSIDE EDITION he was stunned by how his daughter looked in the hospital.

PATRICK LINDSAY: "I didn't recognize her. Her hair looked like it had been pulled out in a lot of places. Her face was badly beaten. It was so swollen."

The six teenage girls, aged between 15 and 17-years old, were arrested and charged with battery and false imprisonment.  The students will be tried as adults.  Three of them are also charged with kidnapping, which carries a possible life sentence.  All of the young women deny the charges.   

Lindsay tells INSIDE EDITION that she does not want her assailants to go to prison, but she fears seeing them again at the trial.

LINDSAY: "I'm not looking forward to that at all. I'm hoping I won't break down but I'm having to tell myself to be strong, and tell them. I have to tell myself that I did nothing wrong, and that those girls did."

INSIDE EDITION is produced daily at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City and produced and distributed by CBS Television Distribution, a unit of CBS Corp.  

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