A 14-year-old girl has been charged with assault by beating after a video of a young boy being repeatedly punched in the face was viewed more than 2.5million times on Facebook in less than a week
But it was not until that evening when it had been widely circulated that police were alerted. A 14-year-old girl was arrested and later charged.
The footage shows a girl grabbing the sweatshirt of a teenage boy, who is several inches taller than her, and speaking to him threateningly.

She drags him around by his clothing while attempting to hit him and at one point appears to land a punch on the side of his head, causing an onlooker to remark: 'Oh, that's a connection'.
She repeatedly asks the boy: 'Are you gonna go get your cousin?', adding: 'Your cousin can't do dirt on me – you understand? Do you think you are a bad yute (a Jamaican slang term for 'youth')?'.