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MASCOT STRANGLER

Youth troubles at a Sydney school:

A 16-year-old boy is barred from going within half a kilometre of an eastern suburbs high school after being granted continuing bail on a charge of attempted murder of a teacher.

The Mascot youth, who stands over 1.8 metres tall, is alleged to have assaulted a 24-year-old female teacher at a public school, occasioning actual bodily harm, on June 19 this year.

The student, who was accompanied by his mother and another relative during his brief appearance in the Bidura Children’s Court at Glebe, is also charged with attempted murder.

Police allege he attempted “to strangle and suffocate with intent to murder” the teacher while she was performing her duties at the school …

A night-time curfew was imposed on the youth, with an exception he be allowed to attend night-time church services.

Hmm. Could be we have another of those pesky Presbyterians on our hands.

UPDATE. Inquiries have been made. Turns out the kid is a member of some kind of late-night-meeting Bible group; possibly Baptist. Apologies to Presbyterians.

UPDATE II. In response to comments: the kid really is a Bible boy. No code involved.

Posted by Tim B. on 08/22/2006 at 02:01 AM

  1. Bloody Baptists!!

    Posted by Razor on 2006 08 22 at 02:07 AM • permalink

  2. At least if he takes in anything from the night-time church services he may be less likely to commit the same offence again.

    Compare and contrast to other prosleytising religions in the news recently.

    —Nora

    Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2006 08 22 at 02:10 AM • permalink

  3. If by “church” he means mosque.

    Isn’t it an insult to Islam to refer to their place of worship as a church?

    If I worked for the Sydney Morning Herald I’d check under my hood before starting the car.

    Posted by zefal on 2006 08 22 at 02:33 AM • permalink

  4. When I was a teenager I attended a Friday night Roman Catholic youth group overseen by the parish priest.  We were supposed to talk all religious stuff. My girlfriend and I did it for the boys, of course.  We decided to invite a few non-Catholics to make it more interesting.  The priest was rapt!

    Going to an all-girl Roman Catholic school, we had to get out somehow :(

    Gotta say too, we had some real dust ups with the nuns, one girl punched a nun in the face after the nun challenged her to do it.  Never tried to kill them though.

    Posted by spyder on 2006 08 22 at 04:18 AM • permalink

  5. #4 Spyder,
    She punched a nun???!!!. That’s just not cricket.

    Posted by Daniel San on 2006 08 22 at 04:54 AM • permalink

  6. #5 Daniel San, nah she was pushing the girl.  What happened was they were having an argument over something the girl had done, the girl went to punch her but pulled back.  The nun, Sister Dominic, kept on and on and on at her to go ahead and punch her.

    But don’t worry about Sister Dominic, like getting the cane out and whacking us on the back of the legs.  One girl went home black and blue over an incident that I was the organiser for (I only got a couple of whacks)

    Hehe, sounds like it was a school in a real troubled neighbourhood.  Nope, one of the nicer suburbs :)

    Posted by spyder on 2006 08 22 at 05:21 AM • permalink

  7. So…...was it REALLY Baptists? Or is that another code? I am really getting confused now…..If it wasn’t the R.O.P, then in the interests of fairness and not sinking to the left’s level, we should apologise for the original insinuation.

    I’m speaking from Melbourne, so I have no idea what sort of demographic Mascot is….is it Broadmeadows? Kew? or Toorak? in Melb terms?

    Posted by MB on 2006 08 22 at 06:45 AM • permalink

  8. It’s Mascot.  You know, the airport.  Think The Castle.

    Posted by Brett_McS on 2006 08 22 at 08:20 AM • permalink

  9. 1.8 meters?  Hell, he’s just barely my height.  (Of course, I’m a towering Amazon goddess, but that’s neither here nor there).

    Posted by Achillea on 2006 08 22 at 10:21 AM • permalink

  10. He attempted to murder a woman and the best they could do is ground him?  And they expect his mother to control him?  Are they crazy?

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 08 22 at 11:16 AM • permalink

  11. I for one am refreshed that it was a Christian, and not a Muslim, who has committed this latest outrage.  We really weren’t pulling our weight.

    Posted by Mark V. on 2006 08 22 at 05:00 PM • permalink

  12. It’s okay, Rebecca, his name is Norman and his mother said she’ll keep an eye on him. And I didn’t realize that Mascot was a place and had thought from the headline that someone had attacked a sport supporter in a costume. Learn something new every day.

    Posted by andycanuck on 2006 08 22 at 05:06 PM • permalink

  13. #12, andycanuck, his name is Norman?  Then mom better watch out that her baby boy isn’t playing around with shovels.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 08 22 at 06:28 PM • permalink

  14. I would respond, Rebecca, but I’ve got to take a shower first. Maybe later. Does anyone else have a craving for chocolate milk?

    Posted by andycanuck on 2006 08 22 at 06:50 PM • permalink

  15. #3 Zefal, you’re right.  No way would PC SMH dare call a mosque a church.  Hmm, in this case think “islander”.

    Posted by anthony_r on 2006 08 22 at 07:08 PM • permalink

  16. Why wasn’t I slap with a restraining order from my high school? Why didn’t I think of strangling my teacher?

    Posted by Rajan R on 2006 08 23 at 06:30 AM • permalink

  17. #14 What have you done with your mother Andycanuck?

    Posted by crash on 2006 08 23 at 10:48 AM • permalink

  18. She’s just cooking dinner, crash. Would you like me to get me her for you?

    Posted by andycanuck on 2006 08 23 at 04:49 PM • permalink

  19. Re #4:  Either the nun in question was one of the younger generation of nuns, or your classmate was really brave. 
    In the 1980s, my Catholic High School had one older nun left.  I had her as a substitute teacher once.  Any of two of would have been physicaly capable of picking her up and tossing her out a window, but we were not mentally capable of laying a hand on her.  We all KNEW she had a direct hotline to God, and believed that a trap door would have opened in the floor if we tried to hurt her.  Next stop, the Inferno!
    Oddly, she never did anything to any of us.  She did not have to.  A prime example of domination by sheer force of personality.

    Posted by Mike Dubost on 2006 08 23 at 07:53 PM • permalink

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