Jacinta Allan Weak on Youth Crime

Well strike me down with a feather.

To combat a dramatic increase in youth crime Jacinta Allan has produced a 1,000 page bill to be introduced to parliament.

A more effective approach may be to introduce the bill to these young offenders behind closed doors. The softly softly approach is not working and whilst their is NO CONSEQUENCES FOR THEIR ACTIONS there will be no improvement in behaviour.

The Herld Sun reports today that Victoria's worst youth criminal with 388 charges has been bailed again by a Children's Court magistrate. This young lad is accused of kidnapping a young Glen Eira student and causing serious and at the time potentially life threatening injuries. How this offender was given bail again especially ashe seems to adscond from state care regularly is beyond me. Surely he is better cared for when locked up and not terrorising more Victorians and getting a worse record.

Jacinta Allan and her predecessor Daniel Andrrews and Attorney General Jaclyn Symes have done an appalling job and caused this spike in youth offending.

Lets get rid of the Labor cancer in 2026.

See report below published today.
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Youth crim facing new charges after breaking into garage

Victoria should be “appalled” by one of the state’s worst child criminals who is “causing terror” in the community, a magistrate has said before releasing him on bail again.
Gemma ScerriReporter
June 21, 2024 - 10:38AM Herald Sun

Victoria should be “appalled” by one of the state’s worst child criminals — a 14-year-old who previously had more than 380 charges struck out because of his age — who is “causing terror” in the community, a magistrate has said before releasing him on bail again.
A children’s court magistrate told the teenager his alleged crimes, which involved breaking into a northern suburbs garage housing luxury cars, were “very serious”, before releasing him on bail again.
“You’re causing terror in the community,” the magistrate said.
“You’re also destroying your own life because you can’t have any good future living this life.”
In a bail application on Thursday, police alleged the boy and two other unknown people entered the home from a rear door, before making their way into the garage.
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The 14-year-old boy is accused of five aggravated burglaries and car thefts, among other offences.

Police alleged the boy filmed the group as they walked around two luxury cars, with the footage later found on his phone.
But the boy’s defence lawyer said it was “impossible to prove” he was the cameraman.
Police also brought CCTV footage of the boy allegedly leaving the property through the front door, wearing the same clothes he was seen to be wearing in a selfie also found on his phone.
The court heard GPS tracking had also allegedly pinged the youth’s phone at the address at the time of the offending.
The magistrate said there was “no reasonable doubt” the CCTV depicted the accused.
“There is no doubt in my mind to say he did enter the house,” the magistrate said.
He is yet to plead either way on the new charges.
Earlier in the month, a court heard he had been a part of a group who had smashed into liquor and lotto stores spanning Melbourne’s southeastern suburbs, using a sledgehammer to gain access to the businesses before he drove two stolen cars in a high-speed chase, involving police helicopters.



The string of burglaries included a horrifying knifepoint theft of a woman’s car and the burglary of a couple’s home as their baby slept.
Police stopped the stolen cars using spikes and later found packets of sour patch lollies and a sledgehammer inside.
On Thursday, the court was told the teen was on a refugee visa, which would be automatically cancelled if he were convicted.

He had also spent more than 100 days in youth detention.

“The community is and should be appalled at his offending,” the magistrate said.
“He doesn’t understand why this is behaviour he shouldn’t be doing because his moral reasoning is so poor.”
The notorious 14-year-old was released on bail to residential care ahead of his sentencing, with a firm warning from the magistrate to “try something different”.
He will return to court at a later date to be sentenced.

The boy previously had 388 criminal charges against him struck out, due to the doli incapax rule, where a child aged 10 to 14 can’t be held criminally responsible.

The Herald Sun has previously revealed he had also run away from his residential care 23 times since December.
This case comes after new crime data was released demonstrating the terrifying escalation of youth crime in Victoria, particularly relating to repeat offenders.

The information showed more than a third of young criminals are repeat offenders, and that 84 aggravated burglaries committed in Victoria last year were by children aged 10 to 13 years old.