The father of a 14-year-old girl who was viciously beaten on the Sunshine Coast has claimed police are not taking the ‘unprovoked’ attack seriously enough.
Confronting footage shows the young girl being kicked and punched by another female teenager as she curled up in a ball on the ground at Happy Valley in Caloundra, southeast Queensland, about 8.10pm on Saturday.
The fight reportedly broke out when the attacker claimed the victim had been ‘talking s***’ about her brother, reported The Sunshine Coast Daily.
The attacker, who is also understood to be about 14 years old, had stomped on the victim’s head, at one point she connected with her face and knocked her head backwards to smack onto the concrete.
The victim was left sobbing on the ground and clutched her head as a small crowd continued to laugh and film her.
‘Don’t talk s*** on my brother c***,’ the alleged attacker said in the video.
The man said he had dropped his daughter off to attend a social gathering shortly before 8pm while he waited at a nearby restaurant, only to receive a panicked call.
He said his daughter was king hit before she realised what was going on, which put her on the ground, where she was hit about 14 times and was briefly knocked out.
A 14-year-old girl was viciously beaten by another teenage girl on Saturday night
Queensland Police said they were making inquiries into the incident.
The teenager’s father, however, has criticised the police response after he said he made two triple-0 calls at the scene and the hospital, but officers did not show up to either.
Paramedics had transported the girl, who cannot be identified, to Sunshine Coast University Hospital where she received treatment overnight on Saturday.
The father claimed officers instead made contact and advised them they should make a complaint at their local police station on Monday for ‘this sort of thing’.
He said the Liberal National Party of Queensland’s calls to crack down on the state’s youth crime problem appeared hollow.
‘Where were the police and will the LNP stand by their Adult Time for Adult Crime policy for attacks like this if the alleged attacker is found guilty?’ he said.
He added that he was ‘appalled’ by the behaviour and feared it would ‘no doubt’ traumatise his daughter.
The 14-year-old was discharged from hospital on Sunday morning with some nasty bruises and a concussion and told the publication she did not even know the girl who attacked her and was anxious about going to other social events.
Loved ones of the victim (right) called for her attacker (left) to be tried under the Adult Crime, Adult Time laws
Officers from Queensland Police’s Child Protection Investigation Unit have since become involved with the case.
No charges have been laid over the attack.
‘Police understand the girl and her parents will attend a station on Monday to make an assault complaint,’ Queensland Police said in a statement.
‘Anyone who may have witnessed the incident or has relevant vision is urged to contact police.’
