Shocking video shows boy stumbling to the ground as he tries to escape his attackers and is kicked in the head

Footage has emerged of a horror youth gang attack in Melbourne’s southeast, with one of the thugs boasting about it on social media.

Shocking footage has emerged of a boy being violently attacked by a youth gang in Melbourne’s southeast, with one of the thugs later boasting on social media about the sickening assault.

The footage, which was filmed live at a train station’s bus interchange and uploaded to social media on Friday afternoon just after 3pm, shows a boy being set upon and attacked by three youth gang members from Berwick and Cranbourne believed to be aged between 14 and 16.

A Berwick Station bus from the 837 route can be seen in the background of the video.

The video shows the boy stumbling to the ground as he tries to escape his attackers and then being kicked in the head.

The Sunday Herald Sun has also obtained images of one of the youth gang members involved in the attack boasting about kicking the victim in the head.

“How my foot look (laughing emoji),” he wrote.

Another youth gang member, who is involved in the gang, also posted images showing him and another teen holding up machetes.

Footage of the shocking incident was shared on social media.

One gang member bragged about the attack.

It comes after Tarneit teenager Hashim Mohamed, 18, was killed in a brutal knife attack on the St Kilda foreshore last week.

Hashim’s distraught mother Ashir Osman last week told the Herald Sun that shops should be more “vigilant” about selling knives, especially to kids under the age of 18.

Police have not yet charged anyone over the deadly attack.

Les Twentyman, veteran youth worker and founder of the Les Twentyman Foundation, said escalating youth gang violence in Melbourne was “extremely concerning”.

The boy was attacked at a train station’s bus interchange.

The rate of youth gang violence in Melbourne has been described as ‘extremely concerning’.

In 2006, Mr Twentyman and his team, with the support of police and the state government, set up a knife exchange in Footscray and collected 52 weapons.

“There’s an epidemic of knives, it’s out of control and I fear for the safety of these young teens,” Mr Twentyman said.

“We need to be having more knife exchange programs to prevent street violence as we’ve got kids killing kids and that is unacceptable.”

Leading child psychologist Dr Michael Carr-Gregg said there needed to be more enforcement by social media companies to block graphic content including gang fights.

“Social media companies need to make sure that these sorts of posts are taken down immediately because it’s glamorising the knife crime issue,” Dr Carr-Gregg said.

“We need to make sure that the perpetrators of these particular crimes are made examples of, so that people can see if they break the law, there are consequences.”

Criminal psychologist Tim Watson-Munro said there should be “tougher penalties” for youth gang members that carry deadly weapons.
“The reality is knives are now being used more frequently in street attacks and altercations, it’s happening too often,” he said.

Victoria Police could not confirm if it was investigating the attack in Melbourne’s southeast on Friday.