Taped Girl Struggling To Polk Has Done For The Lifetime Movie
Taped Girl Struggling To Polk Has Done For The Lifetime Movie
Taped Girl Struggling To Polk Has Done For The Lifetime Movie
Talisa Lindsay still get emotional about 2008 taped beating his stepdaughter Victoria.
"You can not hurt someone like that and get away with it. It is not OK," she said while fighting back tears at his home in South Lakeland.
Video on cell phone that still stifles its place created a media frenzy as the world watched the girl friends of Victoria in an ambush and attacked her in a Polk County home.
Today, the story takes place on the national stage - this time on Lifetime Television in a film made for television entitled "Girl Fight".
The film stars Anne Heche in the role of the mother of the victim, and has an online edition of Lindsay even remember.
"You hit my daughter," says Anne Heche in the trailer of the film. "You think I'll let you get away with it?"
"I said," Lindsay said. She says the film is faithful to most of the time the facts of the case.
Lindsay said she and her family shared their story of living with a writer to send a message about the alarming increase in violence recorded.
"It was about helping to make the changes, and this is what we hope is to make the change," says Lindsay.
Polk Sheriff Grady Judd said he would like to see some changes, but are not sure of a movie that makes the difference.
"Let's face it, someone can do something outrageous to use a simple cell phone, put it on YouTube, and it is a message to the world instantly, and we are where we are," Judd said.
He says Victoria Lindsay case was only the beginning of similar cases.
Since then, a mother of Manatee County is facing arrest after applauding her daughter in a fight that ended up on YouTube.
A father of Hillsborough County has landed in jail after a fight between his son and another teenager came online.
And a fight between two teenagers ended in Tampa on MySpace adults with spectators, many of them, shouting at the girls instead of stopping the attack.
"I can say that each case should be a little nervous, a little violent, a little crazy for her to have an impact on YouTube or local or national news," said Judd.
He says that the reality of what scares the future could be.
Talisa Lindsay concerns, too.
"It's part of why we decided to go the rest of the film. Just to bring more awareness and hopefully get a little 'more educated, so that we can all put together in society and change it," says Lindsay. "This is what our desires are."
"Girl Fight", the film, set on Monday for life. Is transmitted back to 20:00 on Saturday.
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