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Girl Charged In Videotaped Beating Pleads Guilty
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Published: January 20, 2009
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Brittany Mayes, one of five Polk County teens accused in the videotaped beating of Victoria Lindsay, pleaded guilty today to one charge of misdemeanor battery.
A judge will make a decision on Mayes' sentence on March 5. The maximum penalty for the charge is one year in jail.
Mayes was first arrested in April, along with four other teen girls and two teen boys accused of participating in an attack on the then-16-year-old Lindsay and recording the beating on video.
Polk County sheriff's detectives say the teens were going to post the video on YouTube and MySpace in retaliation for online smack-talking between the girls.
Charges against the boys, who were accused of acting as lookouts, were dropped. The four girls —Mercades Nichols, Brittni Hardcastle, Kayla Hassell and April Cooper — still face charges and prosecutors say their cases may go to trial.
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