Child kidnapped and attacked with blowtorch by Elham Naaman and Madeleine Rose Young

A disturning video has landed two women behind bars after a court today heard how they did the unthinkable. WARNING: Graphic.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT

A 14-year-old girl was drugged, detained, attacked with a blowtorch and stomped on by a friend she considered her “big sister” — with the sickening attack recorded on Snapchat.

Elham Naaman, 26 and Madeleine Rose Young, 27, were sentenced at Parramatta District Court today over their involvement in the kidnapping and brutal attack of a child in Sydney’s southwest in July 2021.

An argument over the victim’s interactions with a man angered Naaman, who injected her with the drug “ice” despite her reluctance and then detained her for hours in a Greenacre home with Young, the court heard.

Both were sentenced to jail for kidnapping in company with an intent to cause a serious indictable offence occasioning actual bodily harm.

The victim was willingly picked up by the offenders and others because they were friends but was kept in the house against her will.

Young recorded two disturbing Snapchat videos which were shown to the court but did not partake in the violence. One video showed Naaman threatening the victim with a blowtorch — lighting her headscarf and hair on fire — and stomping on her.

Elham Naaman. Picture: Facebook

In the first video, Naaman is seen staring at the camera and saying it is “that time of the morning, everybody, where you join our f***ing show”.

“I’ll light this b**ch on f***ing fire. Look at her, she’s a little dog”.

At that moment, the young girl is seen jumping up onto the bed and begging Naaman not to “do that s**t,” at which point Naaman lights the blowtorch into the child’s face.

Naaman threatened the child with a blowtorch and stomped on her. Picture: Facebook

The video shows the 14-year-old pleading Naaman to stop, saying she has “no issue”.

“Why are you coming at me with the fire?” she asks.

Naaman responded: “I just jumped on your head and you’re worried about f***ing fire.”

Appearing via audiovisual link from prison, Naaman cried as the footage was played.

In the second video, captioned “best day,” Narmaan is seen repeatedly standing on the victim’s torso, all while Young held the camera and recorded it on Snapchat.

Naaman can be heard saying: “Aw, did I hurt you?”

Young recorded the assault on Snapchat. Picture: Facebook

The victim blacked out from the attack and was left with bad bruising, the court heard.

Giving evidence about the night, Young said she felt ashamed that she had filmed the videos.

“I’m disgusted in myself,” she said through tears.

Young told the court she only “vaguely” remembers the offence because she was “high on GHB”.

Naaman’s lawyer Johnson Jiang argued his client “did not know” the victim was a child and gave her an opportunity to leave the house during the attack by telling her to “go”.

But the crown prosecutor argued the offer to leave was only a taunt, because the victim did not want to leave without her hijab, which had been pulled off her. Eventually she was able to get away and report the attack to police.

Naaman has been addicted to drugs from a young age. Picture: Facebook

“This 14-year-old girl was injected with illicit substances,” the prosecutor said.

“(She) had just been kicked, beaten, stomped on, burned, threatened with a knife and had her hijab forcibly removed and thrown to the floor.”

“She has to choose between her physical freedom or ... upholding her religious beliefs. It’s not a situation a 14-year-old girl should be put in”.

The court heard Naaman was on parole at the time of the drug-induced offence and was due to enter full-time rehabilitation in a matter of weeks.

The court heard of the highly traumatic upbringings of Naaman and Young, who faced periods of homelessness, unstable foster care and violence at the hands of those they trusted.

They both fell into drug addiction at a young age and have suffered severe mental health issues as a result, with Naaman diagnosed with complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Both offenders pleaded guilty to kidnap in company with an intent to cause a serious indictable offence occasioning actual bodily harm.

While sentencing Naaman, Judge Siobhan Herbert took into account one count of drug supply and larceny.

Judge Herbert sentenced Young, who did not carry out the acts of violence, to two years and three months prison, backdated to April 21, 2022.

She has a non-parole period of one year and five months and will be eligible for release on September 20.

Naaman, who played a “far greater role in the offence,” was sentenced to four years and one month prison, with a non-parole period of two years and seven months.

She will be eligible for release on parole on November 2, 2024, with her sentence backdated to April 3.