Student Awarded $1.2 Million After School Gang-Bashing

Published on October 27, 2024

An Australian student subjected to an unprovoked and lengthy bashing by 12 of his classmates has been granted $1.2 million in compensation. The student at Fairvale High School, in western Sydney, was 14 years old when the other students prevented him boarding a bus on Oct. 16, 2017. The pack then walked him to a nearby park where footage taken on one of the students’ phones showed him being spear-tackled, kicked, punched and stomped in a lengthy beat-down. Police found the footage of the assault on Instagram. The student was left with serious ear, eye and skull injuries along with severe psychological damage. The now-21-year-old sued New South Wales via his mother, alleging the state school owed him a duty of care and failed that by not monitoring the students as they moved towards the bus after class hours....

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