LORAIN — A 13-year-old Lorain girl who claimed to be the victim of an attack by a group of seven or eight other girls has been charged after police determined she was actually the aggressor.

The teen’s mother had reported to police on March 28 that her daughter was attacked by the group as she was walking home from track practice and that she had been having problems with another 13-year-old girl.

According to the police report, the 13-year-old who had claimed to be the victim had cuts and bruises and was missing some of her hair.

A group of men in their late teens and early 20s watched the attack and videotaped it on their cell phones, the report said.

Police determined, however, that the alleged victim had started the fight by threatening to beat up another teen several days earlier.

The pair agreed to fight, and the other girls involved were trying to break it up, police said.

The pair of girls who fought were charged with assault, according to police, and the other girls were not charged.