ALL it took were three words - "Don't act cute".
Those words sparked an exchange of vulgarities on Facebook and culminated in a Secondary1 schoolgirl being assaulted so badly that she ended up inhospital.
The victim, whom we shall call Jane, said she had swollen lips, a bruised body and a black eye after the beating by five other schoolgirls. We are not naming any of the girls involved as they are minors.
The incident involving these students of a neighbourhood secondary school in the north-east was sparked off after a boy tagged a picture of Jane on her Facebook page.
Pearl, a Secondary 2 student, then commented on the picture by writing, "Don't act cute".
Jane reacted to the comment by spewing a string of angry vulgarities on Facebook at Pearl, which provoked a similar response from Pearl.
On April 4, the day after their war of words, Pearl went up to Jane in school and told her: "You are going to get it from me."
Jane told The New Paper: "She was smiling at me as she said it. It was so freaky."
Students of the school whom The New Paper spoke to confirmed the Facebook incident. The exchange of vulgarities have since been removed from Jane's Facebook page.
