Lucia Dingfelder sentenced over attack on kidnapped woman

After a woman was sentenced over a vicious attack on a kidnapped ‘friend’, she was then heard uttering a nine-word response to the punishment.

22-year-old Lucia Dingfelder (pictured) assaulted a woman in a Bendigo street. Picture: Facebook

A young woman has wept in court after she was sentenced for a vicious attack on a kidnapped ‘friend’, who was left cowering while being assaulted.

At Bendigo Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, 22-year-old Lucia Dingfelder asked if she could call her mother after being sentenced to six months in jail.

Following the sentencing, Dingfelder could be heard saying: “Did I just get six months in prison? F-ck.”

Last month a court heard how Dingfelder assaulted a woman after she tried to escape from her kidnappers.

The court heard on the night of January 25, 2021, Dingfelder was with a group of people at a Bendigo home when a Holden Cruise pulled into the street.

Inside the car were four people, including Kayla Parker who had been kidnapped, held against her will and subjected to abuse.

A man left the car to get a watch from the Bendigo property and when he returned he threatened to kill Ms Parker.

She attempted to escape, but was forced back into the car.

“Let that c —t out,” Dingfelder told the group as she walked out of the house.

The 22-year-old woman then dragged her friend into the street by her ankle, repeatedly barking at the kidnapped woman to “get out, dog”.

22-year-old Lucia Dingfelder (pictured) assaulted a woman in a Bendigo street. Picture: Facebook

Ms Parker was forced out of the car by two of her kidnappers and held as Dingfelder repeatedly punched her in the face and head.

She cowered and attempted to protect herself as Dingfelder advanced continuing to punch her before throwing her to the road.

Dingfelder kicked her as she lay on the street.

Trying to plead with her attacker, her victim said: “please Lucy, you’re my friend”.

But the attack continued.

Dingfelder took Ms Parker’s phone and demanded her PIN during the assault.

“I’ve got your blood on me, you dog,” Dingfelder told her victim as the assault ended.

Eventually Ms Parker was able to escape, fleeing to a cinema in search of help before she was taken to Bendigo Hospital for treatment.

Dingfelder’s lawyer Robert Timms said through the courts he had watched his client spiral out of control due to her addiction to heroin, methamphetamine and cannabis.

“There has been drug addictions all the way through,” he said.

Mr Timms said heroin in particular had “debased her lifestyle”.

On top of the assault charge, Dingfelder pled guilty to a 2019 shoplifting incident from the Taylors Lakes Target, where she was caught with drugs, and a 2020 theft of $58.03 of petrol from a Strathdale fuel station.

Mr Timms said the young woman celebrated her 22nd birthday behind bars, and during that time had gotten clean of heroin and reconnected with her estranged mother from Bendigo.

Mr Timms called for a community corrections order to help Dingfelder once she was released from prison.

Dingfelder pled guilty to the charges.

On Thursday Magistrate Megan Aumair sentenced the young woman to six months in prison, with 28 days served, followed by a 12 month community corrections order, which would include rehabilitation, mental health treatments and random drug tests.

Ms Aumair said the corrections order would require intense compliance for three months.