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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS LAKELAND, FLORIDA  Victoria Lindsay (r.) was brutally beaten while someone filmed a video of the attack that was shown on YouTube. Eight teens were arrested in the incident. The Florida cheerleader whose brutal 30-minute beating last week became one of the most-watched video clips on YouTube.com has spoken publicly for the first time about her ordeal. "Your No. 1 friend is your family. Don't trust anybody," warns Victoria Lindsay, 16, in an interview with People magazine during an "Inside Edition" preview. The Lakeland, Fl, teen, who is now being home schooled, suffered concussion, bruising and damage to her left eye and ear during the beating, which took place on March 30 at a friend's home and caused a media storm after appearing online. In a 911 call requesting an ambulance after the viscous attack and released by police on Tuesday, Lindsay sobbed to the dispatcher, "I just got jumped", while a woman identified as a friend's mother described her injuries as "blood in her mouth, a big old knot on her left eye, and we think she's got a tooth broke." Commenting on the public nature of the assault, Lindsay's father, Patrick Lindsay, told People magazine that he feels "bitter" about the viral nature of the videotaped beating for which eight of her classmates, six girls and two boys aged between 14 and 18, face charges including battery and false imprisonment. "You put it on the Internet, it will live in infamy," he explained. In a previous interview outside his home, the teen's father called social networking website MySpace of which Lindsay and her attackers were members, "the Antichrist for children."
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