MECHANICVILLE — The Internet video that police said shows a mother encouraging her teenage daughter to punch another girl repeatedly in the head has been removed from the Web site that hosted it, amid a flurry of local and national media attention since the story broke on Tuesday.

The video, shot on March 25 by a fellow student of the teenage girls, was posted on the Web site www.tinypic.com the day after the fight, police said. It shows at least 20 seconds of what police claim is Veronica Farley’s 15-year-old daughter pinning down and repeatedly punching the 13-year-old victim until Farley broke the fight up.

According to police, Farley is one of the women seen encouraging the fight.

Farley, 31, of Mechanicville, was arrested last Thursday and charged with endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor. The girl’s aunt, Tina Farley, 26, of Halfmoon, was arrested on the same charge. Both were released on appearance tickets and are scheduled back in City Court on June 3.

Mechanicville Police Chief Joseph Waldron said he was happy the video was taken down, although he said he believes it should have been removed long before Wednesday.

“The companies . . . should accept some responsibility here,” Waldron said. “If it’s going to damage a person mentally, then they should step in and take that stuff down.”

TinyPic is operated by PhotoBucket, a company owned by Fox Interactive Media, the company that also owns MySpace, a popular social networking site. Fox Interactive Media is a News Corp. company.

“TinyPic takes the safety and security of its users very seriously and employs several methods to moderate content on its site including human moderation, where employees scan all uploaded content, and a publicly moderated system, where members of the user community flag issues that are then reviewed by TinyPic,” the company said in a statement to The Daily Gazette on Wednesday. “We can’t comment on the details of this specific incident.”

Late Wednesday, the page where the video previously appeared displayed a message that reads “This image or video has been moved or deleted”

“That video is just constantly bringing that child back to the horror,” Waldron said. “How many times do you have to hear her yelling for help? Do you know how many parents came up to me and were just disgusted by that video?”

The video of the fight is still available on a number of various local and national news agencies’ Web sites after they videotaped the footage from a computer screen.

According to police, the fight occurred at the bottom of a long set of steps leading from the Mechanicville City School District campus to a playground off Park Avenue.

Police were called to the scene of the fight, but arrived after it had already ended. Waldron said the victim had minor injuries at that time and did not wish to talk with police. She later came in with her mother to discuss the incident, he said.

Police said several witnesses to the fight told police that adults were present, but it wasn’t until police learned of the video shortly after the fight that they realized the extent of the women’s involvement.

Waldron said it took over seven weeks from the time of the fight to arrest the women because it was difficult to identify everyone who appeared in the poor-quality video and then arrange interviews with all the witnesses.

“It takes time to identify everyone, to take statements from everybody,” he said. “The biggest thing was to get all the players together.”

He said police did recognize at least one person involved immediately, but investigators wanted to speak to everyone involved before making any arrests.

The story has received attention from numerous media outlets since the story broke on DailyGazette.com. Since then, Mechanicville police Lt. Dave DeCelle has spoken on the Fox News Channel about the incident, and Waldron said at least one other national television program has contacted him for an interview.

The teenage aggressor in the video was charged with assault and will be processed as a minor, Waldron said. The victim was not charged. Neither girl’s name is being released by police because they are minors.