Girl who wants to be detained gets bail

“IT is extraordinary that in 2008 we should be having this case,” a judge at the Children’s Court said yesterday as he was forced for a third time to grant bail to a troubled girl who wants to be detained.

The 17-year-old girl, who is engaging in self-harm and wants to be detained, could not be held in custody because a detention centre was full, the court was told.

The girl, who while armed with a scissors attacked a care worker, and threatened to “slit her throat right in the jugular,” has already asked the court to sentence her. Health concerns have also arisen due to her being involved in incidents of self harm.