This from WLEX 18:
Several Scott County parents are concerned after videos of unsupervised boxing matches, known as fight clubs, recently showed up on YouTube.
For the past three years, parents in Scott County have been trying to stop the fights, which involve high school students. While the kids are using boxing gloves in some video clips, teens can also be seen with alcohol, and the danger is very real.
One parent, who did not want to be identified, says her son is involved. She says the fights have been happening in a barn on Locust Fork Road in Stamping Ground, where nearby neighbors say on the weekends, the noise lasts all night long.
"The parents and the authorities need to put a stop to this," the concerned parent told LEX 18. "It's got to end. Someone is going to get hurt and they possibly could die.
The parent of one teen seen in the videos says her son suffered a concussion, and later went to the hospital.
Police say there's not much they can do, because if drugs or alcohol are not present, the fights themselves are not illegal.
LEX 18 tried to contact the owner of the property where the fights happen, but no one was home at the time.
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