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A white woman has been sentenced after she appeared to encourage a group of girls to attack a Black teenager in a video that went viral.
According to BBC, 41-year-old Winnie Connors was sentenced to 20 months in prison after pleading guilty to intentionally encouraging or assisting an offense.
The attack against the Black teen unfolded near Thomas Knyvett College in Ashford, Surrey in February 2023. Video shows Connors and a white teenager approaching the Black girl before the adult instigated the beating.
"Get her," Connors repeated several times during the video.
The white teenager hit the victim repeatedly before more girls joined in on the assault, kicking the Black girl and pulling her braids.
"Punch the face off her!" the adult yelled.
Several reports stated that Connors was the mother of one of the girls involved in the fight.
In October 2023, one of the teen attackers pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm. She was ordered to pay a fine and issued a restraining order.
A second teenager also later confessed to an actual bodily harm charge in connection to the attack.
Watch video of the incident here.
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