A 15-year-old student has pleaded guilty to attacking another student with a sharp weapon at Perth's Carine Senior High School and been granted bail under 24-hour curfew. The teenager's lawyer said his client had been subjected to "horrendous" bullying at school over several years.
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00:00 It was an attack that left a 16-year-old boy with several injuries and the school community
00:06 badly shaken.
00:08 And now in court, an admission by the 15-year-old accused of aggravated unlawful wounding with
00:13 a sharp weapon.
00:14 The young person pled guilty today, accepts that this happened.
00:20 Speaking outside the Perth Children's Court, the 15-year-old's lawyer said his client had
00:25 been subjected to bullying at the school for the last four years.
00:29 The bullying has been horrendous and it doesn't excuse the behaviour, but it is a factor.
00:39 There's no suggestion the victim was one of the people said to be bullying the accused.
00:43 Magistrate Andre Horrigan granted bail, but the teenager will only be released once a
00:48 safety plan has been put in place and they'll then have to live at home under a 24-hour
00:53 curfew.
00:54 The person doesn't want to go back to that school and will not go back to that school
00:59 because bullying is having a terrible effect.
01:03 So that means that a lot of weight's off the shoulders.
01:11 The Department of Education says it cannot comment on the bullying allegations while
01:15 the matter is before the court.
01:17 The teenager will be sentenced next month.
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