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A relative of young children who were allegedly tied up with cables by a shopkeeper after being caught swimming in a backyard pool said the man “pushed” her when she tried to intervene.
Shocking images posted on Facebook showed a six-year-old girl, a seven-year-old boy and an eight-year-old boy crying and with their hands tied outside a house on Conkerberry Road, near Cable Beach in Broome, Western Australia, on Sunday . Tuesday in the afternoon.
The tradie, 45, is believed to have been working at the house for a local air conditioning company and discovered the children swimming in a pool at the house.
The six-year-old girl and seven-year-old boy were tied up with zip ties at the Broome property on Tuesday afternoon.
A fourth child was also in the pool, but managed to escape and alert family members of what was happening.
Asharahni Lilwayno, a relative of the girl and seven-year-old boy, livestreamed the ordeal and said the tradie refused to let them go.
“When we tried to go in to pick them up, he pushed me and my mother out of the garden,” she told the newspaper. Western Australia.
“When we got there, and when that man was pushing me out the gate… the little boy (eight years old) broke the cable ties with his hands and then just jumped over the fence and ran down the road. road.
“It was just annoying, we were so angry at (the tradie) that we were just shouting at him, telling him to let them go, but he just didn’t want to listen to us.”
Lilwayno said the man kept saying he was “waiting for the police to arrive.”
She said one of the children also claimed the man told them he was going to “hit them with a big stick.”
Tradie who allegedly tied up children (pictured) has been arrested
St John Ambulance paramedics assessed the children, who have since been reunited with their family.
Western Australian Police confirmed a man has been arrested and charged with three counts of aggravated assault.
Police were initially called to the property for reports of trespassing.
“The man, from Broome, was detained, questioned about the matter and charged,” Western Australian Police said.
“It is alleged that the force used to restrain the children was not proportionate to the circumstances.”
He was granted bail and is due to appear in court at a later date.
Since then, the local air conditioning company has been subject to online abuse and one-star reviews on Google.
An earlier photo on Facebook showed a third boy tied up (pictured)
One witness, Leandra McKenzie, said The children were distraught and called for their mother.
“They were scared, they were crying, they were shaking and they were singing for their mother,” he said.
‘It would have been more than an hour. . . We yelled at him to tell them to let them go. . . but he just didn’t give up.
The witness stated that the children were tied up for up to an hour, on a day when temperatures reached 33°C.
Lilwayno said the children knew it was wrong to enter the property, but said they were “just kids” and were trying to cool off on a hot day.
The children were restrained for about an hour on a day when temperatures reached 33°C.