Teen pleads guilty to assaulting support worker at Yeppoon

A boy sentenced to more than a dozen offences, held an open pair of scissors to a support worker’s throat and uttered chilling words.

A teenage boy held a pair of open scissors to the neck of an adult and told them: “I’ll f**king stab you”, a court has heard.

A teenage boy held a pair of open scissors to the neck of an adult and told them: “I’ll f**king stab you”, a court has heard.

He also filmed a mate play with a firefighting hose while it was turned on in a Central Queensland shopping centre, threw a vacuum cleaner at a wall, causing a hole, smashed the window of a van and was found riding a stolen unregistered motorbike in Berserker – 38km from his home.

The 14-year-old fronted Rockhampton Childrens Court on March 4 and pleaded guilty to 14 charges.

Police prosecutor Corey O’Connor said the defendant and another child were at the Yeppoon Central Shopping Centre on January 29 about 11pm when they unrolled a firefighting hose in the carpark and turned it on, using it for more than 20 minutes.

A teenager has pleaded guilty to unrolling a firefighting hose in a Yeppoon shopping centre carpark and turning it on, using it for more than 20 minutes.

He said this was captured on CCTV and the defendant filmed his mate handling the hose.

Mr O’Connor said the teen placed a pair of open scissors to the neck of a support worker during a verbal argument on January 30 at Yeppoon and said “I’ll f**king stab you” or words to those effect, before closing the scissors and pressing them against the victim’s abdomen in a stabbing motion.

He said the defendant then picked up a chair and used a leg to put a hole in the wall.

Mr O’Connor said the defendant pushed and kicked his carer on the back of their leg on January 15 about 2.15pm at a residence in Yeppoon.

The next day he stole a knife from Woolworths by removing it from its package and placing it under his clothes before leaving the store.

Earlier that month, the teen had thrown a vacuum cleaner at a wall after his support worker confiscated suspected stolen property – a scooter.

The vacuum cleaner left a hole in the wall.

Mr O’Connor said the defendant was found riding a stolen unregistered and uninsured motorbike on December 2 about 5.10am on Dean Street, Berserker, and charged with driving unlicensed, never held a licence on top of being in possession of stolen property, driving an unregistered vehicle and driving an uninsured vehicle.

The teen also had a black grinder which emitted a strong odour of burnt marijuana in his possession and was wanted on an outstanding warrant.

Two months earlier, police found the teen in the same suburb at night and he dropped a knife on the ground which had a 20cm blade.

The 14-year-old had also smashed three windows of a van in that suburb in the middle of the night.

The court heard the teenager was on a probation order at the time of the earlier offending and he is not currently attending school.

The young boy last attended school in year 7 and ultimately wants to become a diesel mechanic.

Magistrate Philippa Beckinsale said the teenager had spent all of February in a youth detention centre and that was the first time he had spent time in custody.

She lectured him that it may be a game to him to play with the fire hose, but it was wasting water.

Ms Beckinsale placed him on a nine-month probation order and no convictions were recorded.

Originally published as Teen pleads guilty to assaulting support worker at Yeppoon