1.   The seventeen year old girl suffered head injuries and was kept in hospital, her fifteen year old companion had a broken arm and was discharged after treatment.

2.   As a professor of special education at the University of Southern Mississippi, Frances Karnes was well-informed about the self-esteem problems adolescent girls often suffer.

3.   Back then she seemed dazed and uncertain, recalling in a numbing monotone the psychological horror and physical abuse she said she and the girl had suffered.

4.   A hospital spokeswoman, Kelley Gibbard, said the girl suffered massive head injuries and is slipping in and out of consciousness.

5.   But they said they decided not to prosecute because her prominent family feared the girl would only suffer further.

6.   Girls suffer, too.

7.   Girls suffer two to six times as many torn ACLs as boys, which could be a function of a more vulnerable anatomy or less conditioning.

8.   Girls also suffer disproportionately from eating disorders.

9.   Girls are also suffering the effects of eating disorders at younger and younger ages, experts note.

10.   It is no secret that adolescent girls suffer from these images.