Mum sent horrific video of her 12-year-old daughter being beaten up by gang of thugs

A horrified mother has described the moment she was sent footage of her 12-year-old daughter allegedly being brutally attacked by a group of teenagers. She then came to learn that the sickening footage of her daughter being 'kicked, dragged to the ground and jumped on' in a shopping centre had been posted online.

Samantha, 35, of Preston, has been left shocked and terrified after the ‘horrific’ attack by what appeared to be a group of teenage girls on her daughter Maisie, at the Concourse shopping centre in Skelmersdale just before midday on Sunday. She said: “They kicked her, dragged her to the ground, beat her on the head, jumped on her, kept kicking her in the head.”

The group of girls who Samantha believes to be aged between around 14 to 17 gathered around her daughter, and three of them allegedly attacked Maisie while others filmed the sickening assault, reports LancsLive . “I can’t watch the film of it,” Samantha said, who was sent the short clip by a concerned parent after the video was posted to social media.

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“The attack only ended when a lady intervened and chased the girls away, and I’m so grateful to her for that. I got to Skem as fast as I could, and got Maisie back home to me in Preston.” Now Maisie, who does not want her full name revealed and who has two brothers and two sisters, has been left with bruises, a swollen neck, bruising on her legs and is aching all over.

Samantha, who works as a cleaner, says the attack is ‘sickening,’ and now she fears for her daughter’s safety. She added: “This attack was sickening: they are just bullies, nothing but bullies. I got a message off one of