Tewantin teen charged over torture of 13-year-old captured in sickening bus attack

Sickening vision has emerged of a bus attack allegedly involving one of the teens charged with the prolonged torture of a 13-year-old. WARNING: GRAPHIC VISION

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Video has emerged of one of the teenage girls charged over the prolonged assault and torture of a 13-year-old on the Sunshine Coast involved in an alleged incident on a bus just days earlier, police have confirmed.

The footage allegedly shows the 14-year-old punching another teenager in the head during a bus trip at Noosaville about 3pm March 5.

Six days later on Saturday, March 11, the girl and two others, aged 12 and 14, allegedly held a 13-year-old against her will for over five hours at a Tewantin house.

Police will allege that a 13-year-old girl was invited to a “party” at the 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.

Video footage of a violent bus assault allegedly involving one of the teenage girls changed with the prolonged torture of a 13-year-old on the Sunshine Coast. Picture: Supplied.

The alleged victim’s mother told The Courier-Mail the incident “broke all our hearts”.

“Her face was unrecognisable (after the alleged attack), it was very scary,” she said.

“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 her daughter spent a week in hospital and that the family are now “hiding out” in an Airbnb.

Vision of the assault at a Tewantin home. Picture: Instagram.

Footage of the alleged assault at the Tewantin home shows the 13-year-old girl pleading that she would “do anything” before her head appears to be repeatedly stomped on.

On March 13, investigations led police to charge three girls, aged 12, 13, and 14 years with a number of serious offences including assault occasioning bodily harm, deprivation of liberty, armed robbery while in company used personal violence and common assault.

The girls took to social media on Wednesday to make comments about the videos being published online.

The victim’s sister told The Today Show on Thursday morning that the alleged attack “broke all of our hearts”.

“(My sister) is doing really well, everybody is supporting her … we’ve been getting heaps of messages from people we don’t even know,” the sister said.

“She is a very strong girl, very headstrong.

The victim’s mother says her daughter is “broken”. Picture: Instagram.

“Mum called me at 7am in the morning … she said ‘come to the hospital now’ …(mum) was crying her eyes out, shaking.”

The sister said the incident was “really hard” to process.

The 14 -year-old has been charged with three counts of assault occasioning bodily harm and one count of wilful damage in relation to the March 5 incident.

She has been remanded in custody and is due to reappear in Maroochydore Children’s Court later this month.