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Rules For Suspect In Video Beating Eased

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: June 27, 2008

TAMPA - Brittni Hardcastle, one of the teenage girls accused in the videotaped beating of Mulberry teenager Victoria Lindsay, can now attend church.

At a hearing Thursday morning, Hardcastle's attorney asked the judge to let his client go to church and lift her house arrest.

Prosecutors opposed the request, but Polk County Circuit Judge Keith P. Spoto granted it.

Other pretrial release requirements imposed on Hardcastle - that she adhere to a curfew, not speak to the media and not have contact with her co-defendants or Lindsay - remain in place.

The March 30 beating became infamous because the sheriff's office said the teenagers recorded it to post on MySpace and YouTube in retaliation for Lindsay trash-talking them online.

Five teenagers are charged in the case.
Hardcastle was charged with kidnapping, misdemeanor battery and witness tampering.
Josh Poltilove and

Jennifer Leigh

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