• The four teenage girls involved in the beating of 14-year-old Adriana Kuch, which her father says drove her to take her life, have been hit with new charges in New Jersey.
• Kuch was found dead in her home in Bayville on February 3, days after an horrific video spread online showing her being set upon by a group of bullies in the hallways of Central Regional High School.
• The four alleged attackers were initially slapped with third-degree assault charges and one also was charged with disorderly conduct after they were also suspended indefinitely from school.
• Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer announced on Friday that the charges against the teens had been upgraded. One is now charged with aggravated assault, and could face court as an adult, one with harassment and two with conspiracy to commit aggravated assault.

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