Is the viral "lexi" video real?

There's clearly clips of a video but not having seen the whole thing it is hard to tell what exactly happened. She does kick him and call him "gay boy" at one point so she did assault him.

DS brought this up the other day, we are in Yorkshire, he believed it had happened in Plymouth and the child had died.

Had a quick google and couldn't find anything on reputable news sources, plenty of SM links, so assumed it was all rubbish.

West Yorkshire for me. My year 10's I teach were telling me about this in the week and were convinced it was local to us! I'm not on TikTok etc so not seen it.

Scary the pace it has gone round!

Im in Scotland and it apparently happened local to me. The kids were telling me the other day that the girls windows got smashed and crowds were outside her house.

"It's not the way DSL's usually talk to each other?"

It sounds like an Egress secure login or similar. The vast majority of emails I receive from external agencies only communicate via secure email.

Not in the video I saw

she was disturbed by the boys screams

The kid whined briefly, exactly like a little brother asking a big sister to lay off. No screaming.

Absolutely. I hope, after it's been cleared up, this is used as an educational case for teenagers and pre-teens.

Despite the clearly English accents in the video, half of America thinks it happened there and the boy died!!

I live in Chorley, Lancashire and this was posted on our local Facebook page last week. The post was from a woman who said her child had shown her the video of a much older girl attacking an 8 year old boy in a local park. No one actually said which park it was but the woman said she was disturbed by the boys screams. I really believed it and reading about it really upset me and dh. I really hope it's all fake and some kind of Internet hoax.

It's a scary proof of how easy is to rile up a mob against a person/country/group of people using social media.

It should be used as an educational case, really.

No one seems to know, really. Only footage I've seen is of a boy initially hitting a much older girl, no footage after that, but he allegedly has multiple spinal injuries and a ruptured testicle. With multiple tik toks saying they ve seen the footage and it's terrible, same as you tube, but no evidence past that. Maybe it did happen, but it's definitely grown massive arms and legs, and seems to have been local to everyone, and everyone knows the boy's, cousin's, auntie's, sister and so they know it happened beside them. Also surprised, if true, there has been no media on it, no daily mail sad face, nothing. So I find it highly unlikely

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.

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.

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

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

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...

Hopefully it's a fake.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 🙄)

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