A teenager has been charged with torture after he allegedly forced another boy into the boot of a car before assaulting him with a hammer and knife west of Brisbane.<\/p>\n
Police allege the 17-year-old went to a Moorooka address with another boy at around 6pm on Sunday, where they met with two other boys, aged 14 and 15.<\/p>\n
The 17-year-old had allegedly connected with the two teenagers earlier that day on social media.<\/p>\n
All four then drove to Redbank Plains, where police allege the 17-year-old threatened the 14-year-old and 15-year-old with a knife.<\/p>\n
Both boys fled the car, but the 15-year-old was “caught by the 17-year-old boy and forced into the boot”, police allege.<\/p>\n
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The matter is before the Ipswich Childrens Court. (ABC News: Tobi Loftus)<\/p>\n
“It is alleged the car was then driven to the New Chum area, where the boy was removed from the boot and assaulted with a hammer and a knife,” a Queensland Police spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Police allege the boy was “subject to further assaults and threats for [about] 20 minutes”, before he fled and sought assistance from a member of the public.<\/p>\n
Crime scene declared<\/p>\n
The 15-year-old was taken to hospital, where he remains in a stable condition.<\/p>\n
Police said the 14-year-old boy suffered no physical injuries.<\/p>\n
Overnight, a crime scene was declared at a home in the nearby suburb of One Mile, where the 17-year-old was arrested.<\/p>\n
He has now been charged with deprivation of liberty, armed robbery, assault occasioning bodily harm, wounding, torture and possession of a drug utensil.<\/p>\n
He is due to appear in the Ipswich Childrens Court on Monday.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is urged to contact police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenager has been charged with torture after he allegedly forced another boy into the boot of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[24278,64,63,128972,2025,128970,128973,96506,128971,37957,44,4106,27359,99199],"class_list":["post-209190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-assault","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-car-boot","tag-charges","tag-deprivation-of-liberty","tag-drug-utensil","tag-hammer","tag-ipswich-childrens-court","tag-knife","tag-news","tag-queensland-police","tag-torture","tag-wounding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}