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Teen beats classmate with chair in taped attack

Los Angeles, CA - Just a week after a disturbing video of six teenagers beating up a former friend Victoria Lindsay began to circulate on the Internet, another violent teen video has surfaced. In Prescott, Arizona a fourteen-year-old girl was arrested after bashing a rival schoolmate unconscious with a folding chair. The incident was video taped by a fellow student.

According to Prescott Valley Police Commander P.J. Janik, the girls had been throwing sunflower seeds at each other in the school cafeteria when things escalated and the attacker picked up a chair and beat the 13-year-old victim in the head.

"This was an unfortunate event, but juveniles confronting and assaulting juveniles is occurs daily in school yards across the country," Janik told the Daily Courier. "This one just happened to be digitally taped and put on the Internet.

The victim, Taylor Hedlund, explained to ABC15 that she was eating her lunch when the attack occurred and was instantly knocked unconscious.

Authorities say that the attack had been planned, and the assailant had told another friend to record the incident on her cell phone. The video was later posted on myspace and youtube.

The 14-year-old is in custody at the Yavapai County Juvenile Detention Center on charges of aggravated assault, disorderly conduct and interference with an educational institution.

Hedlund recovered from the violent incident with only a few bruises to her head.

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