Group of 30 from DD's school lured her to the park to attack, mug, and humiliate her

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I'm absolutely going out of my mind with worry and my daughter is hysterical and is refusing to come out of her room, and is refusing to go to school tomorrow. I want to phone the police but she is begging me not to, so I need advice from my fellow mums of teens.

So, a bit of backstory. My daughter is 14, and started a new school 6 months ago. She fitted in extremely well at first, and befriended some of the girls from the "popular" clique. She was out nearly every day after school and at the weekends, they'd go into town or each others houses. I was thrilled because in her previous school she had always been left out, we moved school so she could have a fresh start, and it worked, so I though at the time.

Around a month ago, DD went into school and suddenly this group blanked her. The "clique" consists of around 30 people in her year, and is a mix of boys and girls. DD had (and still doesn't know) what she did to trigger this. In the weeks that followed, only one girl from the clique was still "friends" with her, and she claimed she had also been blanked by the clique. This was a lie as we'd later find out. On Friday, DD got a text from the friend asking if she wanted to meet up at the park and get something to eat in town afterwards. DD thought her and this girl were best friends, so she agreed.

DD walked to the park, and she says the friend was waiting for her at the gates, and told her "I have something amazing to show you.", and led her to the other end of the park. What awaited her, were 30 kids from her year standing in the field. She says the majority of the "clique" were there. They ran up to her, took pictures of her, hit her, pulled her hair and took her phone. The ones that weren't attacking her stood and watched, while laughing and filming. After they'd left (the attack lasted at least half an hour my DD said) she ran home and told me what happened. She's been locked up in her room most of the weekend and I let her miss school Monday and today, that may have been the wrong move but I couldn't bear the thought of going through that again.

I know I need to send her back to school tomorrow and we are both sick to our stomachs at the thought, but we already had the LEA on our backs a few months ago when we went on holiday for a week during term time. I wish I could just keep her safe at home for the rest of the year. I don't know what to do :(

Any update OP?

Thinking of you user1468352691. Bless you and hope your dd is recovering well.

Any update on this?

Hope this awful situation is getting sorted somehow

OP how is your daughter getting on now? This has sickened me

Hope everything has been/is being sorted OP.

This is so sad to read. We also moved out child to a new school for a fresh start (all be it a primary school) and a similar thing happened in that more bullying prevailed which was even worse with both physical and mental abuse.

In my experience the school and governors closed ranks once they knew who seriously we were taking it and the it was more about protecting themselves than looking after my child. Which was pretty disgusting.

Our child then had to move again and has had a very good experience this time. But a school governor has been leaking safeguarding private info to people at the new school and trying to turn it round. What they're saying isn't even accurate.

Aren't some people just awful?

You have my support and I hope your dd is doing okay. She can walk away from this knowing that she's done nothing wrong and won't be haunted when she's older by what she might have done to someone's life x