{"id":619414,"date":"2026-04-20T15:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/619414\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T15:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:32:10","slug":"teenager-charged-with-toilet-block-assault-took-calculated-steps-to-lure-child-inside-court-hears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/619414\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager charged with toilet block assault took &#8216;calculated steps&#8217; to lure child inside, court hears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A 16-year-old boy allegedly took &#8220;calculated steps&#8221; to lure &#8220;a vulnerable young child&#8221; into a toilet block in Adelaide&#8217;s southern suburbs before sexually assaulting him, a court has heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The teenager was arrested in February this year and charged with three counts of rape, one count of taking a person by force and one count of aggravated assault over the alleged incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A prosecutor told the Adelaide Youth Court on Monday that the <a class=\"Link_link__kR0xA Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-02-02\/police-investigate-sexual-assault-of-boy-at-flagstaff-hill\/106294376\" data-component=\"Link\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/article\/106294376\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">alleged incident occurred in a toilet block at a park in Flagstaff Hill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;Those allegations, Your Honour, show a set of circumstances, set of behaviour that is deeply troubling,&#8221; the prosecutor said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;There is an element of calculation, in my respectful submission, and pre-planning that ultimately leads to a violent assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;Those are calculated steps to ensure that this complainant ends up in a vulnerable setting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;A set of circumstances \u2026 that are thought out to arrange for that complainant to be in that area at that time and then to facilitate an assault.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A sign that says &quot;Youth Court&quot; is affixed to a brick building.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/5a47d5e34dcc31a0ba956db1aa65c5c2.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">The magistrate refused the prosecution&#8217;s application to have the teen tried as an adult. (ABC News: Che Chorley)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The court also heard that the accused teenager was later &#8220;seen on CCTV running from the location&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The prosecutor said the 16-year-old boy should face trial in an adult court because of the seriousness of the charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;[The alleged offending is on the] most serious end of the scale of criminality for offences of this type,&#8221; the prosecutor said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;[They are] offences \u2026 committed on a stranger, a vulnerable young child \u2026 in a particularly vulnerable setting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Adelaide Youth Court can order that a youth be tried in a higher court under Section 17 of the Youth Court Act if it finds the &#8220;gravity&#8221; of the alleged crime warrants a harsher penalty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Magistrate Michael Jandy refused the application and adjourned the hearing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The teenager is expected to face the Adelaide Youth Court again next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 16-year-old boy allegedly took &#8220;calculated steps&#8221; to lure &#8220;a vulnerable young child&#8221; into a toilet block in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[300365,287429,64,63,233811,44,10174,300366],"class_list":["post-619414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-adelaide-crime-news","tag-adelaide-youth-court","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-flagstaff-hill-sexual-assault","tag-news","tag-sa-police","tag-teenager-charged-with-sexual-assault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619414","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=619414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}