A scholar from Sydney’s prestigious Scots Faculty charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old woman has been suspended from the varsity and resides below bail circumstances resembling home arrest, his lawyer says.
Decide Sue Duncombe on Tuesday refused an software by the 14-year-old boy to entry YouTube and the PlayStation community after prosecutors raised issues that he may contact his alleged sufferer, key witnesses within the prison investigation, or the boys he has been charged alongside.
The boy was arrested final month together with two different Scots Faculty college students, aged 13 and 14, and charged with the aggravated sexual assault of the woman in a Bondi Junction alleyway on July 22.
His lawyer, Kent Park, advised the Surry Hills Youngsters’s Courtroom that the boy had been suspended from faculty and was dwelling always below what he stated was “basically home arrest”.
Park stated the boy, whose dwelling had been visited by police conducting bail compliance checks a number of instances since his arrest, wished to entry YouTube for each academic and leisure viewing.
Duncombe stated whereas she accepted that the boy’s bail circumstances meant his liberty was restricted, the measures have been a consequence of the intense expenses. She stated it was “incorrect to open the door so quickly” to social media use for the boy. The tutorial good thing about YouTube movies could be minimal in contrast with the boys ongoing education, Duncombe stated.
The boys’ bail circumstances prohibit them from leaving their properties between 6pm and 6am except within the firm of their mother and father, being in one another’s firm exterior of college hours, coming into Bondi Junction, utilizing social media, and contacting the alleged sufferer. The boys can’t be legally recognized.
Interim apprehended violence orders defending the alleged sufferer prohibit the boys from going inside 200 metres of her.
Scots Faculty, which is Sydney’s most costly non-public educator with annual Yr 12 charges exceeding $50,000, has been criticised by mother and father who say the varsity has a longstanding tradition dismissive of girls. A number of mother and father have known as for the faculty’s principal, Dr Ian Lambert, to resign over the varsity’s dealing with of the fees.
Writing for this masthead final month, sexual consent activist and Train Us Consent founder and chief government Chanel Contos stated Lambert had ignored her makes an attempt to share regarding testimonies from younger girls allegedly assaulted by former Scots college students.
The school has repeatedly refused to reply questions concerning the boys’ enrolment standing, their future on the faculty, and what measures have been being applied on the Bellevue Hill campus in response to the fees. The school declined to reply questions associated to the boys’ enrolment standing on Tuesday.