‘These girls are dangerous’: Teens charged with ‘mob action’ allegedly dragged women into woods before beating them up

Two 18-year-old Illinois women basal accused of “mob action” for dragging women into the woods wherever they bushed them up for nary evident reason.

Hayley A. Ditzler and Olivia J. Brown were some arrested for the alleged assaults connected Wednesday, according to the Madison County Prosecutor’s Office. Court documents accidental the complaint is filed erstwhile a suspect engages successful the “knowing usage of unit oregon unit disturbing the nationalist bid by 2 oregon much persons acting unneurotic and without authorization of law.”

The complaint, reviewed by Law&Crime, says Brown and Ditzler pulled 1 unfortunate into the woods connected April 18 and repeatedly punched and kicked her successful the face, mouth, stomach, arms and legs. According to a enslaved motion, the defendants contiguous a “continued menace to the victim” and “may harm, harass oregon interfere with the idiosyncratic liberty” of the victim.

The ailment not authorities a motive for the alleged attacks, which allegedly took spot successful Madison County and St. Clair County, some of which are successful southeast Illinois adjacent St. Louis, Missouri.

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While Brown and Ditzler lone look charges successful 1 attack, different women person accused the brace of attacking them. Local NBC affiliate KDSK spoke with 1 alleged unfortunate — a erstwhile person of the teens’ — who said the defendants besides dragged her retired to the woods wherever they bushed her. The woman, Evelyn Berentz, told the TV presumption she was hanging retired with friends the nighttime of April 18 — the aforesaid nighttime Brown and Ditzler allegedly attacked a antithetic unfortunate — erstwhile she saw radical walking up to the backmost of her car arsenic if they were astir to attack.

“I saw a full clump of boys with skis masks on,” Berentz said. “I saw Olivia and Hayley and conscionable drove away.”

Berentz says Brown and Ditzler called her the adjacent time and told her they wanted to apologize and invited her to a location successful adjacent Caseyville, the TV presumption reported. Instead of an apology, however, the 2 teens seemingly had thing other successful mind.

“Hailey covered my rima from down maine and was telling maine if I screamed, she would extremity my beingness close there,” Berentz told the outlet.

The unfortunate said the 2 suspects took her retired to the woods and bushed her up. They reportedly filmed the ordeal and posted it online. Berentz reposted the video of her attack connected her Facebook leafage successful which she seemingly she begged her attackers to stop. She suffered scrapes and bruises, but is thankful it wasn’t worse.

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“I cognize if I wouldn’t person screamed oregon fought backmost they would’ve killed me,” Berentz said.

Berentz’s parent Lara McCord is acrophobic for her daughter’s safety.

“These girls are dangerous,” McCord told the TV station.

KDSK reports that authorities successful neighboring St. Clair County are besides investigating alleged attacks involving Ditzler and Brown.

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