12-Year-Old Accused Killer Makes Threat to ‘Burn’ Facility
It’s alleged she stabbed a 37-year-old woman to death at Footscray in Melbourne’s inner west on Nov. 16.
A 12-year-old girl accused of murder threatened to harm children, staff and burn down the secure welfare facility she has been bailed to, a court has been told.
The details can be revealed after Victoria’s Department of Families, Fairness and Housing lost an attempt to suppress much of the case at the Supreme Court on Dec. 22.
The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was released to the facility and placed in the care of the department after she was charged with murder last month.
It’s alleged she stabbed a 37-year-old woman to death at Footscray in Melbourne’s inner west on Nov. 16.
A Children’s Court magistrate has referred to the case as “unprecedented” due to the complexities around the girl’s young age, intellectual disabilities and evidentiary hurdles in obtaining consent for her to give a forensic sample.
“She can’t give consent because she’s a child … her complex needs mean she can’t physically object to it,” he said, at a hearing about obtaining her DNA to test against the crime scene in November.
