11 June 2012

Oxley kiddie thieves nabbed

11 June 2012 | By johnboy

ACT Policing have apprehended a 13–year–old and 11-year-old boy after they caused approximately $20,000 damage to a house in Oxley.

About 1.00pm on Sunday 12 June, a neighbour heard smashing noises coming from the house and contacted Police knowing the owners were away.

On arrival, police saw two boys running from the rear of the premise through the fence and apprehended them a short distance from the house.

Both boys were arrested and taken to Tuggeranong Police Station for interview’s and later released into custody of their parents.

Police entered the house with the owners who had returned from Cooma, NSW where they had been staying.

Inside Police observed extensive damage to the house including the ceiling, holes in walls, furniture and belongings smashed on the floor, graffiti throughout, uneaten food, faeces and food on the walls, and drug paraphernalia.

Police suspect the boys had been squatting in the house for a number of days.

The two are summonsed to appear in the ACT Children’s Court at a later date.

[Courtesy ACT Policing]

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Slice8:17 pm 13 Jun 12

These guys are heros, fighting against ‘the system’. All this left-wing/ right wing hand-wringing indicates a lack of strength, ewoks will kill you all…………..

Parkway Parker5:33 pm 13 Jun 12

“…released into the custody of the parents”, that doesn’t sound like a top notch idea.

Horrible for the poor family who live in the house.

GardeningGirl5:58 pm 12 Jun 12

poetix said :

They are so very young, which makes it perhaps more forgivable, and the emphasis has to be on helping them to change.

It’s not forgivable due to their youth, they’re old enough to know it’s wrong. I must admit though I did momentarily wonder what it feels like to be 11 years old and illegally occupying a strangers home for days and nobody cares enough to come looking for you. What those kids don’t need is the system excusing their actions because they’re legally too young to be held accountable, they deserve a second second second second chance, they suffer from a diagnosis of challenging behaviours, they come from a family background of illnesses around drug/alcohol issues, etc, etc. What they do need is someone telling them we care about ensuring you grow up as happy healthy decent worthwhile members of society.

Zeital2:36 pm 12 Jun 12

This is really vile, and i hope they get there asses kicked for this. At 11 and 13 they would know what they are doing….. ugh so sad i hope the home owners get something out of this not just “I’m sorry”

Jungle Jim2:29 pm 12 Jun 12

I wonder if it’s the same little angels who keep trying to burn the playground down…

MummaBear1:41 pm 12 Jun 12

Shouldn’t it read. – “About 1.00pm on Sunday 10 June” not “Sunday 12 June”?

It frightens and disturbs me to think that two boys aged 11 and 13 are capable of such vile acts. I can only guess what they will be capable of by the time they are 18. Disgusting.

Disinformation9:52 am 12 Jun 12

I used to believe when I was younger that people who chimed in with “Bring back public flogging!’ were crusty, out of touch oldsters, disenchanted with times anew.

Twenty years later, I not only would vote and campaign for the reintroduction of public flogging, but would volunteer my services with the whip.

However, I suspect that I’d have more competition for the position these days.

Dilandach7:26 am 12 Jun 12

jessieduck said :

That’s one of the saddest stories I’ve ever read. Where the hell were the parents??

Stoned/Drunk/Jail/Just ‘gone’ – Pick one or more.

The parents should lose public housing if they’ve got it, any benefits they get should be diverted to the owners until the cost to cover damage is met and the families named and shamed.

But the reality is, parents won’t be bought to account for the hellspawn they’ve unleashed through negligent parenting, the little darlings won’t have any sanction put on them outside of *maybe* some community service and there will be no financial penalty for anyone involved in the damage. Some insincere or passive aggressive apology from the parents to top it off along the lines of “I’m sorry you left your house unsecured and let the kids in. I’m sorry for them having a bit of fun.”

At the very least the kids should not have gone to their parents, they should have gone to social services straight off. Fail neglectful parents who obviously passed their drug addled ways on to their kids.

….and they’ll turn up in the system again and again and again until they do something so bad that they end up in the slammer.

steveu6:47 am 12 Jun 12

Once you are 12 you can be convincted of a crime I believe.

Sad situation for all concerned. I hope the victims of this crime get some sense of justice. I doubt it as they are young adults. And dont forget they are int he ACT, where the sentencing guidelines seems to dictate a finger wagging and a stern talking to in most circumstances/

DOCS obviously needs to get involved for the parents not knowing the whereabouts of the children for starters. You would have to think there was lack of an authority figure in parenting perhaps?

gooterz11:41 pm 11 Jun 12

Surely parents should enlighten their kids with common decency by 11 and 13.

The parents of these children shouldn’t get them back. They should be sent away and retrained how to be people. The parents should pay for the damages and the fixing of their children.

People who raise children like this generally aren’t those that work hard for a living or appriciate the value society, likely their parent(s) is/are on welfare, or a particular group.