A 13-year-old boy has admitted groping a teenage girl while he passed her on his bicycle. The boy pleaded guilty at the Children’s Court to sexually assaulting the 16-year-old girl last July. Judge Bryan Smyth asked for a probation report to be furnished and remanded the boy, who was accompanied to his case by his parents, on bail to appear again next month.
The court heard that the boy groped the girl’s vaginal area as he was cycling past her and that he had no prior criminal convictions. He made no reply when he was initially charged last month and bail conditions have already been imposed on him.
The schoolboy has been ordered to stay at his home address, obey a night-time curfew and stay away from the complainant, as well as the area where the incident happened.