Eight Teen Girls Charged With Attempted Murder of Counselor

This horrifying story in The Journal News details how eight girls in Cottage 12 attacked their counselor. The counselor was punched, kicked, stomped and scratched by the girls before "they doused her with rubbing alcohol and set it on fire,'' Alagno said. "They continued to beat her and then doused her face with chlorine bleach." They also cut her hair with scissors, beat her with a telephone and kicked her down two flights of steps, according to the charges read in court last night. The girls were giggling as they entered the courtroom. So far, one person said "without making excuses" said that they suffer emotional problems.

Source: The Journal News [newspaper]

Title: Counselor beaten, set on fire; teen girls arrested

Author: Richard Liebson, Shawn Cohen and Kristoffer A. Garin

Date: February 9, 2002

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