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People Magazine claims to have exclusive in Polk County teen beating case


In the People magazne hitting news stands on Friday there is an “exclusive interviuew and photo shoot with Victoria “Tori” Lindsey, the Polk County cheerleader who was attacked by six of her peers, according to a release from People.

he incident was caught on tape and quickly went viral, triggering millions of Internet hits. The teens involved were arrested and have been charged as adults.

According to the release from People, Tori tells the magazine about life after the beating (she is gagged by a court order to discuss the incident) and says:  “I was in a lot of pain.”

Though her skin showed no signs of injury 15 days after the assault, she has brain scans ahead.  “It feels like something’s in my ear.” Shortly before the attack, she’d left home because she wasn’t getting along with her parents and was staying with suspect Mercades Nichols.  Now, Tori has moved back in with her dad, stepmother and three siblings.  (Her mother is in prison, serving 10 years for a fatal stabbing.) Tori, a cheerleader, says she has a message for other teens:  “Your No. 1 friend is your family.  Don’t trust anybody.

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