Doonside killing: Teen’s TV interview before murder charge

Less than a week after giving an interview to Channel 7, a 19-year-old mother is behind bars charged with murder.

Kayla Dawson, 19, has been charged with murder.

A teen mother who sipped a coffee while being asked about an alleged attack on a teenager has been charged with murder.

Kayla Dawson, 19, spoke to reporters outside of a home on Perigee Close, Doonside, last week following reports that a teenager had been brutally assaulted and taken to hospital.

“I can’t go back to my house because it’s still under investigation,” she told 7 News.

Kayla Dawson is now behind bars. Picture: Facebook.

Five teenagers were arrested in the days after the alleged assault, four boys and one girl, aged between 13 and 15.

Dawson was the sixth arrested on Sunday afternoon with police taking her from her Doonside home to Blacktown Police Station.

She was charged with murder, take or detain in company with intent to get advantage occasion actual bodily harm, and cause grievous bodily harm to person with intent.

Dawson appeared in Blacktown Local Court on Monday and did not apply for bail. She will remain behind bars.

Police sources said the 16-year-old was allegedly kept in a home for up to two days before emergency services found him unconscious with severe injuries to his head and chest.

He was taken to Blacktown Hospital on Wednesday where he later died.

Kayla Dawson lived at the home where the boy was allegedly bashed.

Rapper John Lavulo, known as Big Kash called out the violence. Picture: Jonathan Ng

Sydney rapper Big Kash took aim on social media about the attack.

He said it was a culture that glorified violence.

“This is the life that all you dumb rappers glorify to these little kids without telling them the consequences of this life,” he posted.

“Condolences to the family, nothing but pain and misery on that side of the fence.”