The 13-year-old girl, who was allegedly lured to a fake party by three teenage girls who then tortured her for several hours, has spoken out.
The trio allegedly held the girl against her will and recorded the sickening attack at a home at Tewantin on the Sunshine Coast on March 11.
They had befriended the girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, weeks earlier before allegedly inviting her to the home where she was allegedly tied up, burnt, stomped on, had bottles broken over her face, and had knives thrown at her.
The girl’s mother claims the alleged attackers showered her following the torture session, before making her daughter clean up her own blood.
The three girls allegedly threatened to kill the victim’s family, including her three-year-old brother, if she told anyone what allegedly happened.
‘When I saw her (after the incident) she was trying to defend these girls saying ‘they saved my life, I got jumped on the way to their house’ … they guarded her so she couldn’t tell the truth but I knew that something was off,’ the girl’s mother told the Courier Mail.
The victim told 7NEWS that during the attack, she ‘wasn’t even thinking’.
‘I (didn’t) care what (they’d) done to me. I just wanted to go home and see my little brother and see my mum.’
Meanwhile, the girl’s sister spoke out on Thursday morning detailing her experience of getting a frantic call from her mother and then rushing to the hospital to see her sibling.
‘I don’t know, like how much I should say about this because like, it’s brutal, like, it’s absolutely brutal what happened and, just the way they lured her was sickening,’ she told the Today show.
The three accused girls filmed part of the alleged attack and have been charged by Queensland Police (pictured, images shared online after the incident)
The girl was admitted to hospital with a stab wound to her knee, burns, a fractured wrist and her face swollen beyond recognition.
‘Her face like it was swollen to like the size of the pumpkin where she couldn’t even see out her eyes,’ her sister said.
‘It’s gone down now, like her body is healing and it’s just yeah, you know, physically she’s healing.’
‘But it’s beyond shocking, what they did to her… it broke all of our hearts.’
She said it was particularly heartwrenching because her sister had been so happy before the attack.
‘It’s really hard because she had reached a point where she was really happy.
‘We were listening to some messages, voice messages, and she just sounded so happy and then for this to happen to her.’
She also described her shock when her mother first called her.
‘My mum called me at seven o’clock in the morning and she was like, come to the hospital now and like on my drive there, I was like, oh my God, like what’s happened?’
‘My head was spinning and I got there she was crying her eyes out, she was shaking, she could barely get words out.
‘She told me what happened and, it was like, I couldn’t even believe it.’
The 13-year-old girl (left) pictured after the attack and in a video during her recovery (right)
She also thanked the community for supporting her family.
‘She’s a very strong girl, very headstrong. She’s, working on recovering and she’s doing well.’
‘We’ve just been getting lots of messages from heaps of people that we don’t even know saying how they feel about this situation and sending her so much love.’
Police have charged three girls, aged 12, 13 and 14, with multiple offences, including assault causing bodily harm, deprivation of liberty and armed robbery.
All three have been remanded in custody to face Maroochydore Children’s Court.
Police have appealed for people not to share any images or vision of the attack out of respect for the victim and to deny the notoriety of those involved.
Investigations are ongoing.
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