Girl allegedly tortured after being lured to Sunshine Coast home
Three girls, aged 12 to 14, have been charged after they allegedly lured a 13-year-old old to a Sunshine Coast home and assaulted, taunted and cut her with a knife over a period of hours. WARNING: DISTURBING
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Three girls, aged 12 to 14, have been charged with a number of serious offences over the alleged assault of a 13-year-old over a period of hours after she was lured to a Sunshine Coast home.
Police will allege that on Saturday, March 11 the 13-year-old girl was invited into a Tewantin home where she was subsequently prevented from leaving and filmed while being assaulted, taunted and cut with a knife over the period of several hours.
The family of the 13-year-old girl say they are now in hiding.
The teen’s distraught mother told The Courier-Mail her daughter was “befriended” by the teens just two weeks before she was invited to a “party” at the home.
“Physically (my daughter) should be dead,” the mother said.
“Her face was unrecognisable (after the attack), it was very scary.”
The mother said her daughter spent a week in hospital and that the family are now “hiding out” in an Airbnb.
“She got stabbed in the knee … it just missed her tendon but she also has a fractured wrist,” she said.
“Her face was swollen to a degree that you couldn’t recognise her … it looked like her head was going to explode.”
The mother alleged after the girls tortured her daughter, they “showered her and made her clean up her own blood”.
She said the girls then “escorted” the 13-year-old home and threatened her that if she told anyone they would “kill her family”, including the 13-year-old’s three-year-old brother.
“When I saw her (after the incident) she was trying to defend these girls saying ‘they saved my life, I got jumped on the way to their house’ … they guarded her so she couldn’t tell the truth but I knew that something was off,” the mother said.
“She was extraordinarily fearful that they were going to hurt us.”
On March 13, investigations led police to charge three girls, aged 12, 13, and 14 years.
The 14-year-old was charged with four counts of assault occasioning bodily harm, assault occasioning bodily harm while armed in company, deprivation of liberty, enter dwelling and commit indictable offence, armed robbery while in company used personal violence, enter premises and commit indictable offence and wilful damage.
She was remanded in custody and is due to face court again next month.
The 13-year-old was charged with assault occasioning bodily harm, assault occasioning bodily harm while armed in company, deprivation of liberty, armed robbery while in company used personal violence, enter dwelling and commit indictable offence, common assault and unauthorised dealing with shop goods.
She is due to reappear in Maroochydore Children's Court later this month.
The 12-year-old was charged with assault occasioning bodily harm, assault occasioning bodily harm while armed in company, deprivation of liberty, armed robbery in company with personal violence, enter dwelling and commit indictable offence and unauthorised dealing with shop goods.
She is due to reappear in Maroochydore Children's Court later this month.
Investigations are continuing.
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