A MOTHER has told how she was forced to watch videos of her daughter being savagely attacked by teenage thugs as onlookers recorded and laughed.

The 12-year-old “happy child” has been confronted by a bully on a number of occasions in recent months, while pals of the attacker send footage of the assaults out on Snapchat.

5 Mum Liana Kobeia has been left heartbroken by the abuse Credit: PCPhoto

Mum Liana Kobeia, from Adamstown in Lucan, Co Dublin, says she has been left heartbroken by the ongoing abuse.

Shocking videos seen by the Irish Sun show the child being beaten by an older girl while onlookers laugh, bearing shocking similarity to an attack in Bangor, Co Down, a couple of weeks ago.

And Liana says authorities need to start taking the brutal bullying culture more seriously before we’re faced with a tragic incident.

The mum of two told the Irish Sun: “My daughter has been getting bullied by the girl for a long time now, but on Tuesday evening last week she was attacked and beaten up while up to 20 others stood around laughing and recording it on video.

“My daughter is very strong mentally and morally but not physically, so she hasn’t let it get her down until this occasion.

5 Thug isolates her victim, aged 12

“I was in work just around the corner at the time and her little friend ran to me and said come quick (your daughter) has been beaten up.

“I left a customer and got there as quick as possible, and the girl saw me and ran away, but up to 20 other teenagers were standing there filming the whole thing.

“They didn’t even move, they weren’t phased, they just stood there and laughed at me and I was asking what is there to laugh about, this is disgusting...

“All the kids recording were saying, ‘oh this is great craic’. It’s a bit of fun for them which is extremely worrying.”

Liana says she tried to solve the ongoing issue by visiting the girl’s mother, her school, the gardai and even Tusla, but has been left with “nowhere else to go” after they all failed to put an end to it.

5 The thug drags her by the hair to the ground

The 31-year-old explained: “I went around to the girl’s mother’s house but no one answered the door, so I went to gardai in Lucan. The videos were put all over Snapchat so I had three of them.

“I think our biggest mistake was that we didn’t go to the hospital. My daughter was saying she just wanted to go home and not go anywhere and that she was fine. But because she didn’t visit the hospital the attack wasn’t taken seriously enough.

“The gardai told me they would deal with it next week, I asked why next week and they said their schedule didn’t suit for them to go this week.

“This girl was a couple of years older than my daughter in primary school and now she’s in the secondary school that my daughter is due to join in September.

“I went to the principal of the school the day after the attack and showed the videos, but she said because it was out of school times the only thing she could do was talk to her.

"I spoke with the girl’s mother who said she couldn’t control her.

“The very next day my daughter came in crying saying something had happened again and I went outside to see this girl.

"She stood and looked at me and told me if she couldn’t go near my daughter she would get other people to do it.

“I have even sent letters to Tusla but I haven’t heard from them either, I don’t know where else I can turn with this?”

5 The girl is then repeatedly punched in the head

Desperate mum Liana says the family have been left with no choice but to start looking into moving house and schools, as gangs of kids are turning up at her home every night screaming for her child to come out and face them, leaving her three-year-old daughter terrified.

The Latvian native said she fears this problem will become more widespread if cases aren’t taken more seriously, and says you only have to look at the case in Bangor last week to see how bad it can go.

She added: “There are massive gangs of teenagers hanging around my shop and my house where my daughter would play with her friends, and the fact that they see this type of bullying as a source of fun is so worrying.

“I come home to dozens of girls standing outside my house screaming, ‘bring out your daughter we will beat her up’.

5 Liana has been left with 'nowhere else to go' Credit: PCPhoto

“I have a three-year-old daughter who is witnessing this constant shouting and threats, we are unable to go out for walks out of fear of another incident.

“She’s now saying she doesn’t want to go to that school so we have to try look for another one.

“She’s ruining her life. We’re looking into moving house because it’s just gone too far.

“It’s particularly worrying after seeing what happened to that poor young girl up in Bangor when she was severely beaten up and it was recorded.

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“Kids are finding this culture funny and something needs to be done to stop it.”

There was widespread shock and disgust over the level of violence in the earlier video which showed a teen being beaten on Eisenhower Pier at Bangor marina on Friday April 20.

The 16-year-old victim suffered severe injuries to her face and head after she was repeatedly kicked and punched and her head was slammed on the ground while onlookers took videos.