Canada. Teen clobbers group home worker with figurine

A 16-year-old girl with a history of using ceramic items as a weapon, was warned by a Timmins judge that she might end up killing someone if she doesn’t change her violent ways.

The girl admitted to clubbing a group home worker in the head with a porcelain figurine to escape a youth detention facility in Burlington, Ont.

Also, in October, the teen came up behind an unsuspecting woman in Moosonee, Ont., smashed a bowl into her face and then started punching and kicking her.

Assistant Crown attorney Dale Cox said the victim had several deep gashes in her face and was “bleeding profusely” from the attack.

Cox said the incidents reflect a “troubling pattern of assaultive behaviour.”

Judge Ralph Carr agreed. “Someone could have been killed,” he said in court.

The teen pleaded guilty to two counts of assault and one count of breaching a condition of release requiring that she not consume alcohol.

The teen received a sentence of 74 days in custody to be followed by one year of probation.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2011/02/23/17381181.html

This entry was posted in CANADA, GROUP HOMES, juvenile violence, ONTARIO. Bookmark the permalink.