Group of six men in their 20s ‘sexually assault 12-year-old schoolgirl on bus to Birmingham’
A schoolgirl says she was sexually assaulted by a group of men in their early 20s while she travelled on a bus with friends to Birmingham city centre.
The 12-year-old told her mother that the men approached the group as the number 33 bus was on Finchley Road in Kingstanding.
The girl’s friends ran down to the bottom deck after they were assaulted, leaving her alone with the men, who the girl said then sexually assaulted her.
The victim’s mother said after the alleged incident: “No words can describe how I felt when she phoned me.
“I felt useless as I wasn’t there when she needed me the most.
“She was really shaken up.”
She added the gang got off the bus in the city centre.
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The girls were on the top deck of the bus – which runs from Pheasey to Birmingham – on Saturday, March 16.
West Midlands Police said: “Police are investigating reports a 12-year-old girl was sexually assaulted on a bus in Finchley Road, Kingstanding, just before 3pm on 16 March.”
Anyone with information is urged to contact West Midlands Police.
