13-year-old girl lured to beach and beaten unconscious by 30 youths as crowd filmed attack: Lot of healing to do

A Canadian teen was allegedly beaten till she lost consciousness by a group of bullies who lured her to a beach late at night and her heartbroken father fears his daughter will never feel safe again.The 13-year-old girl was attacked by a horde of teens at Boyce-Gyro Beach Park in Kelowna, British Columbia on Sept.27 after a friend invited her to show up to the hangout spot at around 8:30 p.m.When she arrived, the defenseless girl was surrounded by approximately 30 “youths” who began recording a verbal altercation, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sgt.

Laura Pollock said, according to CBC.The girl was pushed to the ground where several teens jumped on her and punched her in the head and other parts of her body multiple times before she fell unconscious.Several people kicked and threw dirt and sand onto the motionless teen.The girl had called her mom, but the heartless bullies stole her phone, leaving her unable to call for more help, according to her father, Donovan.

The family’s last name was not released in order to protect them.“I watched two minutes of my daughter getting near beat to death, like 20 or 30 kids who just decided that it was better for them to record it and laugh at her,” Donovan told CTV News.Donovan doesn’t know why his daughter was attacked, saying the teen had just started her first year in high school, and she hadn’t been to school with most of the teens in the attack.He believes the violence stems from what they see online.“This is, this is all probably based on what I can think of as social media,” he said.“I don’t know what my daughter did to deserve this,” says Donovan.

“I don’t know what anybody could do to deserve this.It’s terrible to watch.

I hope people do watch it so they can believe it.”An ambulance was eventually called to pick up the 13-year-old and brought her to a hospital.The teen’s father says she suffered a concussion and bruised ribs but has a long way to go to heal from the trauma she endur...