Is the viral "lexi" video real?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13360483/father-armed-police-house-tiktok-video-girl-assaulting-boy.html

link?

The girls father was speaking in an article on the daily mail website today. Apparently the girl in the video is actually 11 and the boy is 10, both primary school and both know each-other. Apparently he hurt her first and it wasn’t a big deal, they were friends again soon after. I haven’t seen the actual video though so I’ve no idea how bad and violent it actually comes across the clip. But it does seem like a lot of details (ages, locations, maybe names) have been added or embellished.

Haha, yes, @KreedKafer! In my yoof, it was Led Zeppelin tracks being satanic chants played backwards and Peter Tatchell being a paedophile (that one's true but it got less coverage than satanic Zeppelin!) In the 1990s, everybody knew someone who'd been robbed and/or raped after a puff of 'devil dust' instantly paralysed them - it's a real drug, but not that powerful or fast-acting.

I do think these stories should be debunked by reliable news sources. They grow legs, as seen here, and could lead to assaults on real people.

Nobody really has a clue what is happening in the video, who the girl is, and when or where it was filmed. Not a single reputable media outlet has covered it and no police force has put out any kind of statement on it. The 'TimesNowNews' website to which a PP has linked isn't a proper news source.

Every kid who shares this is going to say that they know someone whose cousin knows her or something, but everyone needs to teach their kids some basic critical thinking skills in relation to this stuff.

It's pretty much akin to the rumours that used to circulate when I was a child about tattoo transfers being laced with LSD, or men in car parks offering perfume samples that knock you unconscious as soon as you sniff them so they can abduct you.

Makes sense! Look it up using a search engine 🙂

My son (9) asks me to "search it up" for him..
I have found myself also saying and thinking it 😀

I’ve no idea why anyone would think this would make the news. What about it is newsworthy?

Because it isn't real, almost certainly.
I saw another post shown to me by DC1, supposedly from Lexi's school, saying she had been expelled as a consequence of what happened. It was written as a press release or official statement with an official-looking school logo etc, and looked very convincing. Another post from a children's charity which appeared in my feed after I'd sleuthed around on FB, claiming to be providing trauma counselling to the boy and his family and asking for donations looked altogether authentic too, until some spelling mistakes gave it away.
People go to extraordinary lengths to support extraordinary claims.

I searched Google for news and nothing

Never said anyone has to :)

Yabu for saying you "searched it up"

I don't think anyone should be adding this person to anything.

Happened in Gobowen but blown out of proportion and now people posting awful things about getting the girl raped and other awful things . I don’t think full story is shown yet

There was an incident a couple of years ago where a girl did beat a boy up in west Lothian/Edinburgh way possibly (not totally sure on area) and it was on the news

For people saying it was play fighting, you obviously haven’t seen the whole video, where she stands on his feet, or seeps his leg away and he smashes into the concrete. She’s a vile bully.

I was wondering this also. My DS is a similar age to your DD and mentioned this. I googled but couldn’t find anything in the actual news so figured nobody had died. I’m guessing there’s a grain of truth somewhere but most of it is rubbish.

This is wild.

The incident has actually been tracked down now.

There are supposedly grown adults on this thread making claims and stating them as fact. Is it any wonder that so many kids are growing up to believe all kinds of shite they read about on the internet when so many adults seem unable to stop themselves doing the same?

One of the children in my class asked me if I knew who she was yesterday. I assumed she was either a child who had previously attended the school or an Ethan’s a YouTuber/celeb of some kind. I’ll flag with DSL when I’m in next week - thank god for this thread! Thank you!

It took place in Oswestry. The boy had a couple of bruises and did hit first - it did get out of hand but was nothing like the 'brutal attack' it was. called on social media.

Grown men were outside her house baying for her blood. Very scary how the story escalated to the murder of a child and the suicide of the aggressor.

We live in a scary world.