Is the viral "lexi" video real?

There are so many accounts claiming to be "Lexi" or the other people involved. There are so many different versions of the story ( the assaulted boy is either fine, has a broken spine or is dead). It's impossible to know what if anything happened.
The fact that rhere are so many accounts with go fund me links ( claiming it's for the boy) makes me think it may be a hoax to make money.

Are you in England?

My DD came home from school a couple of days ago saying about this and apparently it was a local girl and boy with 2 broken feet or something.

Im not convinced

I'm in Scotland and the kids here are convinced it was local to us. Honestly I think it's nonsense. Interesting to hear there are fundraisers.

I'm a DSL.

I got a report about this from a student. Student provided me with a school the child apparently attended (according to the doxxing online).

I did my due diligence and found the school website, the DSL team email addresses and emailed them.

The following day, I received a message back from one of the DSLs at the school. It appeared to be one of those secure messages that required a sign in first. It took me to a Microsoft Forms sign in.

But the sign in seemed off to me. Plus it's not the way DSLs usually talk to each other. I looked closer. While it's not been confirmed, I chose not to sign in to read the message.

I think it was phishing fir my school log in details. It might not be, but I wasn't prepared to risk it. I deleted it instead.

So my guess is, scam.

BTW - I'm in North Midlands. School given was Shropshire, not local to us.

My son also told me about this, supposedly happened in the next town along from us, the little boy died and the teenage girl killed herself after. I also googled it and found nothing and definitely wasn’t in our local news.
i did however see the video of a teenage girl beating a young boy so suspect the video is real but the rest of the story not.

What's a DSL?

I think it's a modern day version of the Chelsea Smilers.

Designated Safeguard Lead

I saw this on TikTok but when I googled I could not find it on a credible news source only twitter. TikTok etc. I think it is fake until I read about it on a local newspaper site but then it would surely be picked up by national news sites.

Would you not just phone the school and explain who you are etc rather than relying on messaging etc? All seems very cloak and dagger.

The original video is doing the rounds on TikTok. A girl attacking an autistic boy

It was reported on an English Police forces age- I’ll do some digging and find out which one. The boys mum came out and said he was absolutely fine just cuts and bruises.

I do think it was absolutely true but grew arms and legs as per usual with social media

Jesus no wonder kids are all messed up these days. Dreading the day my kids get smart phones.

Ease. Speed. Nothing more than that.

An email is faster to action when you have 6 million incidents open. Plus, easier to evidence onto CPOMS/MyConcern by c&p the email.

(So ofsted knows you're doing your job properly 🙄)

Just did a quick search on Lexi Bonner (she's from Leeds, apparently: unconfirmed) and it's honestly scary. Dozens & dozens of posts on various platforms, using the same phrases to stigmatise the girl as violent and worse, even calling for people to stalk and attack her. If she exists, this must be horrifying for her and her family. Even if she doesn't, I wouldn't fancy being a Leeds teenager who looks a bit like the child in the video.

I did not find a single mention on any police website of her name or of a viral social media campaign concerning an assault on a child by a teenager. I'm hoping she's not a real person! Either way, it'd be good if one of the reliable fact-checking organisations could clarify.

https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/teenager-beats-up-autistic-boy-8-in-viral-video-you-cant-have-kids-article-109411658/amp

Nope, in Kent and people here say she went to local school and got kicked out after doing this to boy on high street yet vid is in a park or something. I feel like I've seen the video before a few years ago though

An adddress in Shropshire is being shared everywhere ?????

My 13yo came home with this story last week. We are in Ireland. Younger boy autistic, assaulted by older girl.
I looked at the video - I think it was play-fighting. There was no kick in the genitals - just a kick in the bum. Another kid counted down from 10 in the end. There was a lot of laughter. I've seen as bad in my back garden. I cannot see where the autistic part comes in.

Yep - if the video I've just watched is the right one (who knows??!!) there is no real violence, it's playing. Also, the kids' accents don't sound particularly Leeds or Oswestry - probably much further south.

Online vigilantes are scary.

Hopefully it's a fake.

My DC1 (also ND) was in tears over this a few days ago, begging me to sign a petition to have Lexi brought to justice. DC's socials had been flooded with posts by outraged friends essentially baying for blood.

I googled it and watched the 4 videos available online of the supposed attack. My immediate reaction was that it was playfighting and nobody was actually coming to harm. DC was convinced that there were other videos of nastier parts of the alleged assault; friends claimed to have seen footage of the boy faceplanting on concrete after a kick to the head and emerging covered in blood with visibly broken teeth, pleading for his life, and more. These clips were nowhere to be found.

A photo that's circulated purporting to be of the 8 year old recovering in hospital is obviously not the same child as the one in the video.

To me it is an obvious set-up fake fight. DC1 was outraged that I could so blithely dismiss it. But I'm 99.9% sure. It's shocking that so many seem to want it to be true...

Yes we reported it to the police from our school as it was going around, kids getting themselves worked up and angry.

In reality, not sure it's even true as there are so many mixed messages

My teebage DD asked me yesterday if I knew this Lexi girl. She told me what the video showed, I didn't watch it. We're in Scotland so the video seems to be getting around.

My 10-year-old daughter asked about this when she came home from school today (S. Wales).

Something about a teenage girl beating up a younger child who later died. I hadn't heard about it before but my husband seemed to know what she was talking about, although he said that no one had died.

It's doing the rounds on social media, so who knows what, if any, truth there is to it.