Mum who set up crowdfunding page asking people to finance a £5k Disney trip for her and her daughters blasts trolls

A MUM slammed after launching a crowdfund campaign for a family holiday to Disney has blasted trolls who branded her a scrounger.

The Sun Online revealed healthcare assistant Nikki Smith, 33, set up a page on GoFundMe asking for £5,000 to take her and her two daughters to Florida.

She said she couldn't afford to do more shifts "because of childcare" and wanted to "show them how much I appreciate and love them".

But the appeal only raised a tenner before Nikki, who works two nights a week at a local hospital, was branded a "scrounger" and a "beggar" and took it down.

One outraged man wrote: "PAY FOR YOUR OWN HOLIDAYS!!!!" while a woman added: "Why should the rest of us scrimp and save !!! For her to scrounge !!!!!"

Nikki today spoke out to defend her fundraising bid - which was mockingly shared more than 19,000 times - and says she's a hard-working mother.

The mum, of Coalpit Heath, Bristol, said: "People have been comparing me to a homeless beggar and things like that. I'm absolutely traumatised by it all.

"I don't go on my Facebook any more because all my friends have been sharing it and I'm quite scared about my children going to school and being picked on.

"Some of the comments were disgusting.

"They were picking on my children and one man said, 'If I give you £5,000 would I be able to keep your children?'