Police arrest three girls for recording alleged Claymore assault
NSW Police allege the girls, all aged 13, stripped and beat a 14-year-old girl in Claymore in Sydney's outer southwest on Friday night and recorded the incident.
Police allege the violence started about 7pm, when three 13-year-old girls approached the other girl at a bus stop before forcing her at knifepoint to the end of Longstaff Way, where she was 'punched and kicked'.
'Police will allege in court the girl was then forced to strip before she was whipped with a phone cord while being recorded, before the three left with top, pants, shoes and mobile phone,' the police said in a statement early Saturday morning.
The three girls were arrested and taken to Campbelltown Police Station on Friday night. Picture: NewsWire/Gaye Gerard
'PolAir was called to assist in a search for those allegedly involved, with three girls arrested a short time later in Claymore, and their mobile phones seized.'
The three girls were taken to Campbelltown Police Station and charged with serious offences.
One girl has been charged with aggravated robbery with an offensive weapon, causing a person aged 14 years or over to make child abuse and possessing child abuse material.
The two other girls have been charged with aggravated robbery with an offensive weapon and causing a person aged 14 years or over to make child abuse material.
All three have been refused bail to appear in a children's court later today, the police said.
Police also allege the injured girl was known to the three girls.
Duncan Evans
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Duncan Evans is a reporter for News Corp's NewsWire service, based in Adelaide. Before NewsWire, he worked as a resources and politics reporter for The Daily Mercury in Mackay, Queensland and as a reporter at CQ Today, an independent newspaper based in Rockhampton. He was raised in Emerald and Brisbane and studied English Literature and American Studies at the University of Sydney. He began his career in journalism working for the Jakarta Post in Indonesia for over two years as an editor, translator and writer. He is fluent in Indonesian.
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