6 teens arrested in taped beating of Pa. woman
September 28, 2012 CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — Six teenagers were in custody Friday on charges they brutally beat a neighbor on her stoop just "for fun" and then posted cellphone video of the attack on Facebook, authorities said.

Four 16- and 17-year-old girls were charged as adults in the attack on the 48-year-old woman, a crime that has shaken this struggling city of about 30,000 residents just outside Philadelphia. The girls were charged with aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, burglary and harassment. Another teen girl and a 19-year-old woman were also arrested later Friday afternoon.


"It appears just for fun," Chester police Detective James Nolan said. "There hasn't been a discernible explanation as to why."



"It really doesn't make any sense," Purnell said. "It's ignorant." [link to washingtonexaminer.com]