Alleged teenage torture home goes up in flames on Sunshine Coast

Alleged teenage torture home goes up in flames on Sunshine Coast
Police have slammed suspected “vigilante” behaviour after a Queensland housing fee property was burnt to the bottom in Tewantin in a single day.
The fireplace, believed to have been suspiciously lit on the house the place a teenage woman was allegedly overwhelmed, stabbed and humiliated on the Sunshine Coast earlier this month, went up in flames at 1.30am in the present day.

When emergency companies arrived, the property was engulfed in flames and badly broken, although no person was inside on the time.

The house was utterly destroyed. (9News)

No accidents have been reported and officers have since declared a criminal offense scene.

The home’s home windows and doorways had earlier been boarded up after being “targeted by vigilantes” within the wake of the woman’s alleged assault.

The occupants of the property have since moved out, police confirmed.

Police are actually urgently interesting for extra data over the suspected arson assault and have issued a stark warning to anybody contemplating related actions.

Responding to the neighborhood outrage over the alleged acts that came about inside, Detective Senior Sergeant Craig Mansfield stated now “the housing department is short of a house”.

“Some other people in need could have effectively gone in there and we could have provided some shelter to other people who really do need it,” he stated.

”That type of behaviour is not condoned at all.

“We’ll examine these issues closely and critically … we simply do not desire a continuation of such a behaviour.” 

Mansfield said police “are involved for the protection” of the previous occupants of the house.

“We are involved however given the home is now destroyed we do envision that sort of behaviour will cut back within the space, will cease in reality,” he said.

“We ask, in a contemporary society we comply with the processes which are accessible to individuals.”

Police are also aware of “racially motivated flyer” that had been distributed around the Tewantin area in the last 24 hours, linked to the alleged torture case.

Superintendent Craig Hawkins said early indications suggested those responsible for the flyers reside outside of the Tewantin area.

“Not solely has it been distributed right here, but in addition in one other location within the south-east Queensland space,” he said.

“This is a direct try by people who do not stay on the Sunshine Coast, who don’t have any relationship with the Sunshine Coast, to incite radical behaviour and racially motivated behaviour.

“In no way would that behaviour be condoned, everyone in Queensland has the right to feel safe.

“The cultural heritage of the individuals who did occupy this house is totally irrelevant.

“A matter has occurred, police investigated that matter and these individuals are now before the court.” 

Footage of the alleged torture, uploaded to social media, resulted in mass outrage and widespread anger within the state.

The three ladies – aged 12, 13 and 14 – have been charged after a 13-year-old woman was allegedly held in opposition to her will, punched and stabbed in an hours-long ordeal at a house in on the house on March 11.

Police have since revealed that one of many alleged offenders, the 14-year-old, has additionally been charged over a second alleged assault that performed out on a bus six days earlier.

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Source: www.9news.com.au