“Dr. Phil” Staff Bails Out Girl Jailed for YouTube Beating
By Diane Smith
13:42, April 13th 2008
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“Dr. Phil” Staff Bails Out Girl Jailed for YouTube Beating

The TV talk show Dr. Phil McGraw confirmed on Saturday the fact that its staff bailed out of Florida jail one of the girls involved in the violent video posted on YouTube. The video depicted several teen girls beating one of their classmates while filming her.

Mercades Nichols is one of the eight teen girls who face charges in the case of the vicious beating posted on YouTube. She was bailed out by a representative of the show on Friday night, MyFOXTampaBay.com reported.

The bails for the violent girls were set on Friday and they are ranging from $30,000 to $37,000. The girls are aged from 14 to 18.

The bailing out was confirmed via e-mail by Terri Corigliano, a show spokeswoman. In his e-mail, Corigliano explained that the show has previously helped other “guests and potential guests” of the show with different needs, but in this case “certain staff members” who were in the process of booking guests for the Dr. Phil McGraw show went a bit too far and broke the rules of the show.

"These staff members have been spoken to and our policies reiterated. In addition, we have decided not to go forward with the story as our guidelines have been compromised," Corigliano wrote in the statement.

Nichols wasn’t the only one bailed out. According to the Polk County Sheriff's Office spokesman Scott Wilder, only two of the eight teen girls charged in the case were still in jail late Saturday night.

The violent girls are accused of taking part in a vicious beating of another teenage girl. The beating was videotaped and the clip was posted on the Internet.

The girls are facing charges of kidnapping and misdemeanor battery and they will be tried as adults.



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