Little girl, 12, is viciously beaten up outside a busy McDonald’s after enjoying a meal with her classmates
- Girl, 12, was beaten outside a McDonald’s
- A 14-year-old girl has been charged
- A GoFundMe has been launched for the victim
A young girl has been viciously beaten outside a McDonald’s restaurant after being targeted while enjoying a meal with her classmates.
The girl, 12, whose family had recently moved to New Zealand, was with three of her school friends at the McDonald’s Glenfield restaurant in Auckland on Saturday.
The group were eating and laughing, which two girls at another table mistook as being directed towards them, according to the victim’s sister, Rein Crystal.
‘One of the girls proceeded to approach the table, demanding an apology from my sister, assuming they had been mocking her,’ Ms Crystal told the NZ Herald.
When the girl and her friends finished eating and left the McDonald’s, they realised they were being followed by the two girls.
A young girl (pictured), 12, has been savagely beaten outside a McDonald’s in Auckland after enjoying a meal with her classmates
The pair demanded an apology from the group before allegedly attacking Ms Crystal’s sister.
‘They kicked her in the leg and pinned her to the ground before repeatedly kicking her in the face and forehead, causing her to bleed,’ Ms Crystal said.
She claimed her sister had apologised to the girls but they still assaulted her ‘because she had no means of defending herself’.
After she was ruthlessly beaten, the girl called her mother in tears.
Her mother could tell something was seriously wrong, telling the publication that her ‘hands were shaking’ and she ‘felt nervous’ in her stomach.
When the family arrived at the scene, they found her bleeding profusely.
She was rushed to White Cross Hospital and treated for the wounds.
Ms Crystal said her sister is ‘currently okay’ but her face was still injured and swollen.
The family had only moved to New Zealand from the Philippines in August of last year.
Ms Crystal said her family had never experienced such violence back in the Philippines.
‘I don’t know if this is a safe place because this is the first time this has happened to our family,’ she told the publication.
The girl was allegedly attacked by two teenage girls who ‘repeatedly kicked her in the head’
The family are now hoping the perpetrators will be identified so they could ‘engage in a conversation with them and their parents’.
Police have since charged a 14-year-old girl over the alleged assault.
She is due to face North Shore District Court on Tuesday charged with injures with intent to injure.
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins described the attack as horrific, completely unacceptable, and maintained that New Zealand was a ‘safe country’.
He recalled seeing the photos released of the girl in blood-soaked clothes at White Cross Hospital after the attack.
‘I can say, as a parent, that every parent would be heartbroken by that photo,’ he said.
A GoFundMe page for the victim has been set up here.
