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The mum of a schoolgirl allegedly sexually assaulted by a "gang of scumbags" on a city bus has thanked two teenagers for intervening.

The 38-year-old, from Erdington , spoke of her pain after her daughter, aged 12, was attacked while aboard the No. 33 towards Birmingham.

She was travelling into the city with two of her friends - aged 12 and 13 - before being approached by a group of around six men, who have been described as tanned, of Eastern European descent with black hair and aged in their early 20s.

The girls were approached on the top deck of the bus on Saturday, March 16, which was empty at the time.

The men allegedly goaded the girls and started to dance inappropriately around them and in a sexual way before the 12-year-old victim was attacked.

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However, following the suspected assault, two teenagers aged around 16 ran after the group of men and chased them off the bus outside the Royal Mail depot on St Stephens Street, on the approach to the city.

In an update, the victim's mum said: "They need to get caught - and no more young girls can be hurt.

"The bus driver didn't want to know.

"But, as these scumbags got off the bus, a young group of black kids sitting at bottom got off the same stop an started to chase them after they had heard what was going on.

"What I'd appreciate is if the young kids who intervened to come forward, as I want to personally thank them."

The mum added: "I'm so pi**ed off with the police, that no-one has come out yet. It happened on March 16.

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"I'm phoning the police back tomorrow, as the officer I spoke to yesterday said he has just been handed the case and [officers] have the CCTV footage aswell."

West Midlands Police said it is investigating reports a 12-year-old girl was sexually assaulted on a bus in Finchley Road, Kingstanding - five miles away from where the group eventually got off.

"No words can describe how I felt when she phoned me," added the victim's mum, who is hoping the appeal will help protect other young girls from being attacked.

"I felt useless as I wasn't there when she needed me the most."