A court has been shown horrific mobile phone video of a 15-year-old girl bashing a schoolgirl to the ground before repeatedly stomping on her head.
A 15-year-old girl from northern New South Wales, yesterday pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm in Tweed Heads Childrens Court following the June attack.
Police believe the teenage girl attacked a 13-year-old girl outside a high school after she heard the girl was in a relationship with her ex-boyfriend.
According to police the older girl, who was not a student at the school, approached the victim as she made her way to the bus-stop.
"The defendant has continued her barrage of assault, which can only be described as horrific, by punching the victim to the head with a closed fist on about five occasions while the victim was defenceless and fallen to the ground," police said.
"The young person has taken a step backwards and then made a full sweep kick to the victim's head and one further to the head region.
"The young person continued the assault by then stepping over the defenceless victim and stomped on her head on at least three occasions with full force.''
Frightening footage of the assault, captured on a mobile phone before being sent to other phones, was shown to the court yesterday.
The vicious assault left the 13-year-old with visible facial bruising, lacerations to her knees and ankles, and bruising to her hands.
Police facts tendered to court also revealed "fears are held for the safety of the victim and her family" following the attack.
Police believe the 15-year-old girl is affiliated with the DNS Crips, a Tweed-based gang who have been implicated in violent incidents in Queensland and NSW, and alleged that a number of gang members were nearby during the attack.
The defendant will be sentenced in early November.
