{"id":846717,"date":"2026-08-07T11:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T11:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/846717\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T11:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T11:28:13","slug":"11-people-charged-over-alleged-torture-bashing-of-teen-found-wrapped-in-plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/846717\/","title":{"rendered":"11 people charged over alleged torture, bashing of teen found wrapped in plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eleven people have been charged after a teen was allegedly bashed and left in wrapped in plastic in Queensland bushland.<\/p>\n

A jogger found the boy, zip-tied and wrapped in plastic, off Cape Pallarenda Road in Townsville about 6:35am on July 18.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Dave Miles of the Townsville Child Abuse and Sexual Crime Unit said the alleged attack was not random.<\/p>\n

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Dave Miles says there has been some cooperation with police. (ABC North Qld: Lily Nothling)<\/p>\n

“It’s concerning, from our perspective, the level of violence that was used and the way in which this young person was left in Pallarenda,” he said.<\/p>\n

“This level of violence is not something we see in the community often.<\/p>\n

“Torture is a very significant charge and something we, thankfully, don’t see a lot of.”<\/p>\n

Senior Sergeant Miles alleged the teen was bashed at a house in Heatley before being “dumped”, wrapped in plastic and unable to move for more than five hours, at Pallarenda.<\/p>\n

Car gives clues<\/p>\n

Police alleged that a car believed to be involved in the incident was later driven erratically along the nearby Strand and had a collision.<\/p>\n

Police allegedly found items inside the car that Senior Sergeant Miles said assisted in the investigation.<\/p>\n

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Police have charged 11 people over the incident. (ABC North Qld: James Tugwell)<\/p>\n

A 13-year-old Deeragun boy appeared in Townsville Children’s Court on July 24. He was charged with four offences, including torture.<\/p>\n

A 35-year-old Kirwan woman charged with five offences, including torture, remains in custody and will face Townsville Magistrates Court on September 28.<\/p>\n

A 14-year-old Kirwan girl charged with four offences, including torture and assault while in armed company, has been dealt with under the Youth Justice Act.<\/p>\n

Another eight people \u2014 two men aged 30 and 34, three women aged 36, 32 and 40, and three14-year-olds \u2014 were charged on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Each face multiple charges, including torture.<\/p>\n

Senior Sergeant Miles said the victim was in a stable condition but sustained many bone fractures and had required several surgeries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eleven people have been charged after a teen was allegedly bashed and left in wrapped in plastic in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,417546,74050,417547,417543,5315,417542,44,26673,417545,1158,12628,27359,6649,417544],"class_list":["post-846717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bashed","tag-bushland","tag-child-abuse-and-sexual-crime-unit","tag-deeragun","tag-investigation","tag-kirwan","tag-news","tag-north-queensland","tag-pallarenda","tag-police","tag-teenager","tag-torture","tag-townsville","tag-townville-magistrates-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846717","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=846717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}