Six teenage girls beat Pennsylvania woman, videotape attack, police say

Cell phone and surveillance video capture at least five teenage girls beating a mentally disabled woman in Pennsylvania. WCAU's Jesse Gary reports.

A group of teenage girls beat up a mentally disabled woman in Delaware County, Pa., made video of the attack and posted the clip to Facebook, according to Chester police.

In the video, which was obtained and published by the Delco Times, a group of six girls approached the woman, who was sitting on her stoop.

One of the attackers started punching the 48-year-old woman. The attack then moved inside the home, where the teens continued punching her with their fists and hitting her with chairs, among other things.


Police say the beating happened near 12th and Morton Streets Tuesday around 9 p.m. in Chester. The suspects are 16 and 17 years of age.

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The victim suffered cuts and bruises on her face but did not get medical help, according to police.

Len Worby, one of the victim's neighbors, told the Delco Times the attack was the second in two weeks.

“She got beat up about two weeks ago,” Worby told the newspaper. “Someone hit her over the head with a gun.”

A local parent saw the video on Facebook Thursday morning and tipped off police.

Police say they tracked down four of the teenage girls in the video. Two of those arrested are sisters, according to the Delco Times. The Associated Press reported they were charged as adults with aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, burglary and harassment.

"The parents are upset," one of the officers told the Times. "The girls are defiant. It's like they didn't do anything wrong."

Investigators say they're searching for two more girls who they believe were involved.

"Their behavior is animalistic to this poor woman," Delaware County District Attorney Jack Whelan told the Times. "We are going to aggressively prosecute each of them for their callous indifference to this woman."

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    Reply#554 - Tue Oct 2, 2012 9:38 PM EDT

    I hope that the woman gets medical help. Her family will help her because she is Mentally Challenged. What those girls did was wrong. They are animals, Tiers, Stans. I am saying animals in different languages. I am saying animals in English, German, and Russian. Anyone who does this is an animal. Hence the name animal, Tier, Stan.

      Reply#555 - Wed Oct 3, 2012 2:35 PM EDT

      please do not disrespect animals, these things are monsters

        #555.1 - Wed Oct 3, 2012 5:43 PM EDT
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        What they did was wrong.

          Reply#556 - Wed Oct 3, 2012 2:38 PM EDT

          My what a fine group of Pennsylvania young African-American ladies from Chester, eh? Almost makes a good case for welfare and to vote Democrat LMFAO!

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          Reply#557 - Wed Oct 3, 2012 3:16 PM EDT

          Just more black trash out on the streets doing what it does best: cause trouble. Not to worry, they'll all be at the voting polls in November voting for their boy NObama.

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          Reply#558 - Wed Oct 3, 2012 3:33 PM EDT

          put them down now, they are rabid monsters & deserve nothing better than a dirt nap...

            Reply#559 - Wed Oct 3, 2012 5:40 PM EDT

            Just goes to show the Jungle breeds male and female the same. No sex discrimination there.

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            Reply#560 - Wed Oct 3, 2012 6:08 PM EDT

            @ Joe 3144156. How can you say they have "ghetto mentality"? A few years ago a group of young white kids living in a rich section of New York beat a homeless man to death. Would you say that they have "ghetto mentality? There are teenagers all other the world who are behaving like this; red, yellow, black and white. Pick a nationality and you will find a teenager who has behaved in this manner. I think what these girls did was deplorable and I hope they get what is coming to them. The children now a days have that "I don't give a F@#$ and I am going to do what I want" attitude. Parents should not let the government tell them how they should raise their children. You pop a child in public and they come and arrest you. Then when that same child commits a heinous crime, it's the parents fault for not disciplining the child. It's always someone who does not have children or who can't control their own child that wants to tell you how you should raise your children. These girls should be locked up for ever and a day. I doubt that they would have picked on a normal person because they knew they would have gotten their sorry butts kicked!

              Reply#561 - Wed Oct 3, 2012 10:38 PM EDT

              now i know why people relate to and call negr0s monkey....

                Reply#562 - Thu Oct 4, 2012 2:21 PM EDT

                i hate when racist comments end up on the net after a story is posted...all of your hearts are as dark as the girls in the video. the only difference is that you racist dirtbags justify your hate when you see others acting out in ways you really want to. I see no racist comments on here about how white people love blowing up government buildings every time something in society pisses them off. How they keep their own daughters in basements to have sex with them for 27 years...if blacks are monkeys because of this video then what does world history make whites?

                  Reply#563 - Thu Oct 4, 2012 2:42 PM EDT

                  Any time a kid committs a crime, hold the parenst entirely responsible, charge them with the crime, make them do the time, period.

                    Reply#565 - Thu Oct 4, 2012 8:07 PM EDT

                    I dislike it when people use animals to compare someone to. Like, pigs, monkeys, they are all cute animals, and people are ugly...

                      Reply#566 - Thu Oct 4, 2012 8:10 PM EDT

                      Lock this group up and throwaway the key. I, as a PA taxpayer, will be glad to pay extra taxes to build new prison facilities just to make sure that we always have plenty of room for scum like this.

                        Reply#567 - Fri Oct 5, 2012 1:13 PM EDT

                        We need a human garbage disposal, and a special sewage system that
                        would dispose the remnants of this vile human element, and not pollute nature.

                          Reply#568 - Fri Oct 5, 2012 5:21 PM EDT

                          Philly, the city of brotherly the worst people in the world. Someone send the Taliban in to blow that whole cesspool off the map.

                            Reply#569 - Fri Oct 5, 2012 8:43 PM EDT

                            Philadelphia is the worst city in America. Filled with nothing but thugs who hurt people.

                              #569.1 - Sun Oct 7, 2012 5:37 PM EDT
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                              Here is a typical conservatives view point on all this:

                              They are just bullies doing the bully thing, its a phase just like the one Romney went through, it does not mean that they will grow up to be privileged, or to think they are better than everyone else.

                              Everyone gets bullied, you just have to deal with it, all these laws and things just make people weak. It is a good thing that woman did not fight back or she would have been arrested for assaulting a juvenile.

                              This is just life deal with it, stop asking for government do to something about it.

                                Reply#570 - Fri Oct 5, 2012 10:28 PM EDT

                                a rose by any other name is still a rose. If I say the other word I will be deleted. The older I get the more Roses I see.

                                  Reply#571 - Sat Oct 6, 2012 2:21 PM EDT

                                  These girls need jail time period...real jail time.....Forget about psych talk and understand that the fact that they roam the streets at night dressed like trash suggests that their homes are dysfuntional....The parents excuse of being horrified is nonsense, they knew what kind of young ladies they had on their hands......They did nothing. Race or economics has nothing to do with this...This is about common sense and socialbility, about being a descent human being...They have none of these qualities and I know theiur parents saw this......My cousin sassed my grandmother with the F-you word 50 years ago and my cousin was lucky to get off the floor but she never ever disrespected anyone with those type of words again.....Did she become a bad person from this ...No she is a school teacher , mother of 4 , wife, and the most loving respectful person their is....The point is that these girls were running wild with no real parental guidance...Their home life is truley dysfuntional as the fact that it was dark and these girls were on the street

                                    Reply#572 - Sun Oct 7, 2012 9:39 AM EDT

                                    I am speechless at reading this story. Absolutely incredible, and yes there will be attorney's to defend every one of the girls who did this and do everything possible to make the charges go away. My question is what would the defense be? The woman they attacked did nothing wrong. This makes me sick....

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                                    Reply#573 - Sun Oct 7, 2012 3:13 PM EDT

                                    This is the fruit of the secular humanism being force fed to this generation through the media and liberals. We are reaping what we sow so stop complaining.

                                      Reply#574 - Sun Oct 7, 2012 4:12 PM EDT

                                      They should be locked up in a prison somewhere in Iran, or China, maybe North Korea. Let them be consumed with fear!!!! Don't kill them, torture them with fear!!!

                                      And it's going to get much much worse if the dictator, Mr. Obuma gets re-elected. With liberals in control some more, expect more graphic violence. And the media is a huge culprit as well. The media says that parents should not spank their kids. What a mistake. The old saying goes:

                                      Use the rod and you teach a child. Spare the rod and you spoil the child.

                                        Reply#575 - Sun Oct 7, 2012 5:33 PM EDT

                                        Time to put these girls down. They have no sense of morality and never will. All six should be euthanized upon conviction.

                                          Reply#576 - Mon Oct 8, 2012 2:45 AM EDT

                                          Horrendous? Try stupid. Those are the dumbest girls ever, they are as dumb as the boys who go around doing the same thing and tape themselves and put on the internet for the world to see. The should be on the world's dumbest criminals show. They deserve everything they get, even charged as adults. It's really pathetic. It's like 'watch me do something stupid and illegal and put it on the internet and arrest me now cus I'm so dumb.'

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                                          Reply#577 - Mon Oct 8, 2012 9:23 AM EDT

                                          They're black?? Why, I never would've guessed it....

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                                          Reply#578 - Mon Oct 8, 2012 2:38 PM EDT

                                          CHEEZNUTZ i do not think THAT IS HELPFUL or accurate.I know plenty of "whites" that have done as stupid of an act. THEY ARE IDIOTS. that will be all.

                                            #578.1 - Thu Oct 11, 2012 10:21 AM EDT
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                                            I live in a somewhat small town (around 60,000). We have had 10 murders this year. All of them have benn perpetrated by blacks. All the victims have been black except one. We actually have very little crime in this city. Most of what we do have is black on black and just about all the murders have occured at clubs where alcohol was being sold. Fortunately, every club that has had a killing has lost their licquer license for a time. Several clubs have been shut down completely. Our Police Chief and Mayor are very tough on crime in this community. That makes us law abiding citizens happy. If something like this were to happen in our community, the black folks would be just as outraged as the white.

                                              Reply#579 - Wed Oct 10, 2012 2:10 PM EDT
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