They're burning down hotels. They're harrassing shopkeepers. They're assaulting pedestrians and they're bricking windows.
Gone is the age of the back alley boys, welcome to the age of the 'girl gangs.'
The alarming trend, which has played out in British villages, towns, and cities this year has seen groups of young girls involved, accused and charged with a variety of offences not normally associated with their age or sex.
These include arson attacks, brazen thefts, violent assaults and drug running, as well as the general terrorising of innocents, in shocking incidents that spare neither the young or the elderly.
And the carnage shows no signs of abating.
