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Girl Fight In Locker Room Posted On YouTube

One Student Faces Charges

POSTED: 7:08 am EDT October 9, 2007
UPDATED: 9:42 am EDT October 9, 2007

A fight in a girls' locker room at a local school has reached an international viewing audience online.

A videotape that shows Katelind Lewis, a 13-year-old Norwood Middle School student, fighting back against another girl was posted at YouTube.com, WLWT-TV in Cincinnati reported.

"I cried, I couldn't watch it," said Jan Perone, Katelind's mother. "I watched about the first four seconds of it."

The videotape was posted 2½ weeks ago on the day of the fight, and more than 6,600 people have viewed the brawl.

"My daughter was so humiliated, she wouldn't even tell anyone," Perone said. "She was scared, (and) she was afraid for me to go to the school and say anything because she was scared what the other repercussions would be."

The father of the 14-year-old girl who attacked Katelind said he was "disgusted" by the video, but he said his daughter had been threatened.

"Apparently everyone knew that this fight was going to happen because this girl had told her, 'I'm going to get you after school,'" said the father, who declined to be identified.

His daughter faces charges Thursday in juvenile court, and both she and the girl who videotaped the attack were suspended for one week from school.

Katelind's mother said she wants the school to expel the girls who attacked her daughter.

"Our schools need to get this stopped," Perone said.

The superintendent of Norwood Schools said that officials had disciplined the girls according to code, but he admitted that administrators were disturbed by the YouTube video and had taken steps to have the clip pulled offline, the television station reported.

However, he said, YouTube officials told him that once a video is posted online it becomes property of the clip-sharing network.

A YouTube official said videos that show someone getting "hurt, attacked or humiliated" would be removed, but for now, the clip remains online, the television station reported.


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