THE mother of a 13-year-old girl who was left unconscious after a brutal attack has spoken of her disgust that none of the 40-strong crowd who gathered to watch the violence stepped in to stop it.

Emma Fogarty said she simply could not understand how anyone could stand by and watch as her daughter was beaten while she lay on the ground.

As reported in yesterday’s Daily Echo 13-year-old Louise Smith was left with head injuries after she was involved in a fight at Green Park in the Millbrook area of Southampton.

Miss Fogarty said: “I am more angry than anything else, so many people stood there and no-one stopped it.

“She was lying there unconscious on the floor and the other girl was still beating her up. I think it is disgusting.”

The 29-year-old mother of seven spoke of her shock at hearing of the assault when police officers arrived on her doorstep on Tuesday evening.

She raced to Southampton General Hospital where her daughter had been taken.

“I got to the hospital before Louise arrived. She came in with blood on her face. I just cried when I saw her,” said Miss Fogarty, of Windemere Avenue, Millbrook.

Three ambulances and 15 police cars were called to the scene on Green Park, in an area of Wimpson Park, at about 5.30pm on Tuesday.

Louise is now recovering at her Millbrook home.

Miss Fogarty said: “She is struggling to walk and her jaw is badly bruised… It was a violent attack.

“Basically they had a fight, Louise walked away and another girl came up behind her and attacked her and carried on even after she was knocked unconscious.

According to an eye-witnesses Louise, who attends Redbridge Community School, had been “dragged by her hair and punched in the face” and left covered in blood.

The mum-of-seven added the two girls used to be friends but had a petty falling out.

“It was over a boy and the girl brought Louise’s family into the situation,” Miss Fogarty said.

Miss Fogarty said her daughter had been left with quite a few scratch marks and grazes and had x-rays done of her hips, wrist and back which were all badly bruised.

“It is mainly internal bruising ” she added.

“They could not tell if her nose was broken because they don’t do x-rays on noses.

“The rest of the family are quite shocked about what happened.”

Miss Fogarty said her daughter had been having a bit of trouble with some girls but did not think it would escalate into a fight.

“Fighting should not be going on, if it had gone on any more it could have been a lot worse than it was, thank God it wasn’t.

“Kids need to realise going out and fighting is not acceptable.”

Redbridge headteacher Jason Ashley said: “The children are all a bit subdued and upset about it, as obviously they would be.

“The school will do what it can to support the pupils.

“I would of course send my sympathies to any young person who is a victim in such an incident.

“We are working closely with other schools in the area to support the police with their investigation.

“We always encourage students to do the right thing and to report any concerns they have to us.”