Hope Lyden’s story is all too familiar to anyone paying attention to the Record’s Our Kids...Our future campaign.

The 13-year-old was brutally assaulted in an unprovoked attack that was filmed and shared online.

The girl needed hospital treatment but thankfully the physical scars will heal.

It will take Hope much longer however to get over the trauma she experienced at the hands of other youths, not just the ones who directly participated in the violence but those who stood by and watched,

Footage of the sickening attack has gone viral, which might have been the aim all along of those who put Hope through such a horrific ordeal.

The incident brings home – yet again –the need for action on the Record’s........

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