Dr. Phil Posted Bond For Teen Accused Of Ringleading Videotaped Beating

[Alonzo]

The teen accused of masterminding a videotaped "animalistic" attack against a fellow teenage classmate is out on bond, and she has celebrity talk show host Dr. Phil McGraw to thank for it, according to a bail bondsman.

The bondsman told media gathered at a Polk County jail Friday that Dr. Phil posted Mercedes Nichols' $30,000 bond.

When Nichols was released from jail, a man arrived and idenfitied himself as a Dr. Phil producer and ordered local media to leave the area because the Dr. Phil Show had exclusive rights to the story, according to reporters on scene.

The man refused to comment about why Dr. Phil would help someone accused of such a violent crime leave jail, and he would not confirm if Dr. Phil paid for her bond.

http://www.wftv.com/news/15865443/detail.html

[micfranklin]

I don't watch much Dr. Phil anyway.

[Pookie]

Oh, yeah. Keep coddling the kids, of course. Why isn't Dr. Phil more concerned about the kid who was beaten?
What an ass.
Purrs,
Pookie

[Scribbler1]

He just wants to have the kid all to himself so he can "cure" her on TV. McGraw is just another ratings whore and the only real difference between his show and Jerry Springer's is a lack of screaming and punching.

[cronic]

http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=779d99bf-1a82-45a1-a7d4-6a46e4f0c1bb

Late Saturday night a representative of the show said their staff had gone too far by paying Nichols' bond and announced they had abandoned plans to have her on their show.
I watched the news last nite and supposedly the Dr. said he didn't authorize any of this..

Who knows if he is lying?
It almost seems to me that this non - licensed doctor will do anything to get and keep his nose in the public eye.

Then again maybe he just has a thing for trying to help young girls..

First it was him trying to get in Brittney's affairs . now this girl.
Oh well, anything for a show right?