WOONSOCKET, R.I. (WHDH)-- Police are investigating a vicious attack on a 12-year-old girl from Rhode Island.
Cell phone video appears to show four other girls ranging in age from 12 to 13 violently attacking the victim.
She already suffers from a dangerous medical condition. This morning, her mother, Holly Gingerella, is demanding answers.
Gingerella can barely watch the video. Posted on YouTube, it shows her daughter struggling to protect herself.
The attack took place Saturday afternoon in Woonsocket. The 12-year-old spent the night with the girls because she said they threatened more violence if she went home and told anybody.
"She tried to call me. They wouldn't allow her to use the phone," Gingerella said. "They'd text me pretending it was her, asking if she could stay."
Even before the assault, the victim had a serious medical problem: water in the brain. She's had nice surgeries in her 12 years, and the girls were aware of her condition.
"Alicia has a shunt in her brain and it goes into her heart valve," Gingerella said.
The mother of one of the girls seen in the video said she is devastated by what her daughter did. She asked not to be identified.
"I love my daughter too, but my daughter needs help," she said. "My daughter has done this too many times; she needs to be punished for this."
At one point in the video, the unidentified photographer turned the camera on himself to say:
"Kids are [expletive] sitting outside for like twenty minutes, like 'don't do this, don't do that. You can keep going you can keep fighting'. It's like they're like planning it so they can like just record it."
"I am mortified," the victim's mother said. "There was an adult holding a camera out a window watching a little girl get her face smashed in by four girls and just continued to video tape -- didn't call the police."
The injuries are still fresh on the victim's hands and body. Gingerella says she doesn't ever want to return to school.
"Still comments being made today," she said. "Calling her a snitch, saying she's gonna get it worse."
The victim did not suffer any broken bones, but a CAT scan did reveal swelling in her brain.
Charges have been filed, but no arrests have yet been made.
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