12-y-o boy testing law authorities

A 12-YEAR-OLD boy had lasted less than three days on bail before being taken back into custody at the weekend and put before the Toowoomba Children’s Court during a special Monday holiday session.

An obviously peeved Magistrate Kay Ryan reminded the diminutive lad that she had only given him bail at last Thursday’s Children’s Court hearings and here he was back before her for breaching those bail conditions.

“I told you don’t let me see you back here on the weekend because I’m on call,” Ms Ryan told the boy.

Police prosecutor Senior Constable Julia Wheaton said police objected the boy’s bail application because he just kept committing offences.

“It’s a repeated pattern of behaviour,” Snr Const. Wheaton told the court.

The boy’s solicitor Joe Millican said his client was not going to school but was looking at an alternative schooling program.

The boy’s parents sat in the court’s public gallery during the mention of their son’s matters.

Asked by Ms Ryan why he wasn’t abiding by his bail release conditions, the boys replied: “Don’t know. It’s boring at home.”

A representative from Youth Justice said the boy was booked in for a list of programs this week.

Ms Ryan said if not granted bail the lad might spend more time in detention than he would even if he pleaded guilty to the charges.

Ms Ryan released the lad from custody on bail and remanded him to appear back in the same court on November 14.

“I think we’ll see you before then,” Ms Ryan told him.

“Try and prove me wrong.”