Teenage car thief tracked by Polair and bitten by police dog after stealing car and assaulting girl

A 13-year-old girl was bitten by a police dog while fleeing from a stolen car after she brutally assaulted another teenage girl, a court has heard.

A 13-YEAR-OLD girl was bitten by a police dog while fleeing from a stolen car that was being tracked by a police helicopter after she brutally assaulted another teenage girl, a court has heard.

The girl was on probation for more than a dozen offences including break ins and car thefts when she was arrested while fleeing from the stolen car in September.

Now aged 14, she came before the Children’s Court of Queensland on Thursday to be sentenced for charges of unlawful use of a motor vehicle, assault occasioning bodily harm and stealing from the person.

On September 17 last year, she exited a stolen vehicle and attacked a girl known to her, punching and kicking her, dragging her along the ground and stealing a ring from her finger and her phone from her handbag.

Polair was tracking a teenage girl in a stolen car.

After fleeing in the stolen car which was tracked by Polair, the girl was bitten by a police dog which hunted her down in bushland.

She was treated in hospital and spent a night in custody before being released on bail.

The court heard the girl was known to Child Safety and had experienced a disadvantaged background which included poor family circumstances and substance abuse issues.

Defence barrister Jann Taylor said the assault victim was known to her client who believed the complainant had stabbed her friend.

“Her thinking was they had set-up a one-on-one consensual fight,” Ms Taylor said.

“She had no intention of taking property but the situation escalated.

“This young lady takes very real responsibility for the choices she’s made.”

Ms Taylor said the offending was “nasty” and the girl acknowledged it “went too far”.

The court heard the girl had continued to engage with Youth Justice staff of her own free will and that she was undertaking courses to gain employment in a trade.

“Obviously this offending was pretty serious, you were only 13 at the time but you can’t go around bashing other people, there are better ways to deal with those sorts of things,” Judge Deborah Richards said.

The girl was sentenced to six months’ probation and no conviction was recorded.