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An Aboriginal teenage girl has lost an appeal after she requested her criminal trial be heard by a female magistrate for cultural reasons, saying she wouldn t defend the charges if footage of her being strip-searched had to be seen by men.
But the NSW Court of Appeal said the Children s Court could order a case like hers to be heard by a woman in the future.
The girl, then 15, was strip searched at Wagga Wagga Police Station in March 2019 after she was arrested on suspicion of stealing a car.
Police say she kicked the female officers searching her and smashed some of their body cameras. She was charged with assaulting police officers executing their duty and destroying property.
Published April 5, 2021
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An Aboriginal teenage girl has lost an appeal to have her trial heard by a female judge, which she requested because it would involve showing footage of her being strip-searched, AAP reports.
In 2019, the girl was arrested after allegedly stealing a car at the age of 15. At Wagga Wagga Police Station, police strip searched the girl before sending her to jail for six months.
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In March, four Aboriginal people died in custody.
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On March 2, a 35-year-old Aboriginal man died at the Longbay Correctional Centre prison hospital in Sydney. Three days later, a 44-year-old Indigenous woman died at Silverwater Correctional Facility. Another two days went by and, on March 7, another man died in Ravenhall Correctional Centre in Melbourne. The following week, a 37-year-old Barkindji man died after being pursued by police in Broken Hill it was March 18.
That’s four Aboriginal deaths in one month.
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