Banksia Hill: autistic teenage girl ‘treated like a dog’ at detention centre, class action alleges
Girl, first detained at 13, suffered extremely traumatic' restraining with handcuffs, leg shackles and spit hoods, court document claims
An autistic teenage girl detained at Banksia Hill Detention Centre was forced to use underwear stained with menstrual blood and sleep on a mattress covered with excrement and saliva", according to a legal document filed in support of a class action against the West Australian government.
The affidavit by lawyer Stewart Levitt alleges the girl was fed meals through a grille and was forced to earn" her bedding. She felt like she was being treated like a dog" and responded by sleeping on the concrete floor of her cell and pretending she was a dog, the document states.
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