Three Simi Valley teens who were charged with assault, battery, and hate crimes for a summertime brawl that took place in a movie theater parking lot were given varying sentences -- between seven and eight months in a juvenile facility.

On August 1, five minors argued with a group of teens outside the Simi Valley Regal Cinema, which escalated into a physical fight involving three victims.

According to the Ventura County District Attorney's Office, one victim was punched in the jaw, another was pushed to the ground and stomped on, and a third was confronted with racial slurs, chased, surrounded, and repeatedly punched.

The group continued the assault as the victim ran toward the cinema food court, where he was again surrounded and beaten, with his head shoved into a trash can.

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