One of three teenage girls who tortured another for four hours in a crime that shocked Australia has been sentenced.
The teenagers befriended their 13-year-old victim days before luring her to a home in Tewantin, on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, in March last year.
The girl was attacked, taunted and cut with a knife while being filmed for footage that later went viral on TikTok.
One girl, aged 14, pleaded guilty to 47 offences, including armed robbery, assault resulting in bodily harm and deprivation of liberty.
A second girl, aged 15, pleaded guilty to assault occasioning bodily harm, deprivation of liberty, entering a dwelling and committing a serious offence, armed robbery in company, use of personal violence and assault occasioning bodily harm in company of armed people.
The 14-year-old was sentenced to a two-year suspended prison sentence and placed on probation for three years at Maroochydore District Court on Wednesday, the Costa del Sol Diary reported.
She was detained for 218 days.
The court also heard about other crimes committed by the 14-year-old girl before the torture.
He had stolen a shopper’s shoes after threatening him at the Sunshine Plaza shopping center.
The next day, he asked a group of teenagers for a vape pen and then pushed them.
The 14-year-old girl and her friends then attacked a teenager in the group and the defendant kicked him twice in the head.
The teenagers befriended their 13-year-old victim days before luring her to a house in Tewantin, on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, in March last year and torturing her.
The 14-year-old was also accused of driving stolen cars and breaching bail, as well as being caught stealing fuel at gas stations.
He apologized for his actions while in court Monday and said he felt “really bad about what he did,” she said. ABC reported.
Meanwhile, the 15-year-old appeared in the same court on Wednesday and was charged with new charges of robbery with violence and breaching bail.
She will be sentenced on April 22 and has served 126 days in pre-sentence custody.
A 12-year-old girl also remains before the courts.
The Crown prosecutor had told the court the 13-year-old victim was lured to Tewantin’s home under false pretenses before the savage attack began.
Two girls, aged 14 and 15, have pleaded guilty to the incident and a host of other offences.
Her hair was pulled out, she was spat at, she was threatened, she was cut with a knife and her hands were tied with rope during the four-hour ordeal.
The court heard how the teenagers also tried to break bottles over her head and forced the girl to lick their feet.
The victim also faced an onslaught of verbal abuse from her attackers, who called her a “stinking bitch” and “the ugliest thing they had ever seen.”
A bone was broken in his wrist and the victim was beaten so badly he was temporarily unable to stand or see, the court heard.
The teenagers filmed the torture and took “before photos” of the attack on the victim.
The girls accompanied the injured 13-year-old girl home after the attack and entered uninvited, despite being told to leave.
The court heard the pair stole some of the girl’s belongings and ordered her to make up a story of how her injuries were caused and threatened to kill her family if she did not comply.
The victim had her hair pulled out, spat on, threatened, cut with a knife and had her hands tied with rope during the four-hour ordeal.
When the girl’s mother returned home, the teen followed the couple to the hospital to make sure the victim didn’t “snitch” on him.
The victim told her family what happened two days later, which was then reported to the police.
The prosecutor told the court that the 14-year-old defendant sent the victim a photograph showing his middle finger shortly after being arrested.
The court heard that both the 14-year-old and the 15-year-old had troubled upbringings.
The 15-year-old began smoking marijuana at age 12 after dropping out of school and had been assaulted while in a juvenile detention center.
The 14-year-old girl began drinking alcohol at just 10 years old after witnessing and being a victim of violence in her own home.
She and her family were bombarded with threats after she was identified online as being involved in torture.