A 14-year-old boy who broke into a Wagaman home in broad daylight Thursday to steal credit cards and go on a shopping spree while already out on bail, allegedly assaulted two officers as they tried to arrest him and was promptly given bail again by a judge, NT Police said.
Police said they received reports of the break-in around 10:30am, with the credit cards being reported stolen.
Those cards were then used “at multiple locations throughout the northern suburbs”, police said.
Strike Force Trident officers located the teen at a shopping centre on Trower Road later in the day, where police allege the boy was using one of the stolen credit cards.
During the arrest, the teen allegedly assaulted two of the arresting officers.
He was charged with serious breach of bail, assaulting a member of the police force, resisting police, unlawfully possessing property, and obtaining benefit by deception.
“He was granted Judge bail and will face court later today,” police media director Mark Wilton said in a statement.
“Police continue to urge anyone who witnesses a crime or anti-social behaviour to make contact on 131 444.”
Tell me he didn’t know what he was doing. I don’t care if there is a year to wait for a trial. If you can’t abide by bail conditions then you don’t deserve to be free to commit more offences. Just imagine if the judges and magistrates could be held responsible for damages.
What cloud , pills or weed are these so called judges and magistrate on. Clowns the lot of them with no laughs to be had.
(1) Name the magistrate.
(2) Introduce a bill to end mandatory confidentiality for minors. Let nature take its course and permit peer pressure to inhibit anti-social and criminal behaviour. It takes a village to raise a child and gagging the entire village not only enables the crimes, it rewards criminality. Meanwhile, recorded history tells us non-publishing of names of juvenile criminals has failed spectacularly.