By Mihingarangi Forbes
School kids in Rotorua are sharing around a girl’s bashing filmed on cell-phone. The fight has made its way around Rotorua high-schools.
It's believed it was also posted on social networking sites.
It’s not the first time - last month abusive messages were left on Facebook and YouTube about Hawke's Bay school kids, and last year another girl-on-girl fight from Auckland's James Cook High was posted online.
What's got into our girls? It's not a common sight, a prolonged attack by a group of girls on a single 15-year-old.
For added humiliation the assault is filmed on a cell-phone and forwarded on to other kids.
Dr Donna Swift is head researcher of the Girls Project. She's trying to find out why some of our girls are choosing their fists over their tongues.
This fight, like many others wasn't reported to the school or the police. When we approached Western Heights High School in Rotorua, the principal said she had no knowledge of it at all, so the chances of the perpetrators being dealt with are once again slim.
Both Dr Swift and the police agree girls fight over boys and for their attention.
Watch the video.