Is child and youth care powerless when it comes to setting limits for a 15-year-old with a criminal record who has been in their care for ten years? The boy drove cars without permission for months and raced through Vienna at speeds of up to 140 km/h. When the police arrested him, he threatened a terrorist attack: a lawsuit.
“I often just drive cars like that. I love driving,” the 15-year-old said in the disturbing trial before the Vienna Regional Court. The boy is no stranger to the gray house. He was sentenced on June 13. The 14-year-old first defendant was admitted to an institution at the time for torturing a girl in the shared apartment. The co-suspects, including the 15-year-old, did not intervene, but filmed.
Car put into use nine days after conviction
‘Joy rides’ that young people take in open cars in their unlimited free time were already the subject of the trial in June. Just nine days after the said conviction, on June 22, the 15-year-old was driving a vehicle again. The list of unauthorized use of cars before his arrest is long. And as expected, it ended ingloriously.
On August 16, he allegedly fled from the police in a VW Polo at 140 km/h at the Donauzentrum in Kagran with three young passengers, with whom he eventually collided. “It’s a bit slow,” says experienced juvenile judge Daniela Forcedleitner. When officers arrested the Austrian, he said: “I am going to commit a terrorist attack together with my Chechen brothers and blow up a police station.”
No fixed daily structure
“I said that out of anger,” the teen said during the trial. He does not seem to be aware that he is putting people in enormous danger with his travels. His life is marked by setbacks. At the age of five he was placed in a child and youth care group. He has to replace them five times. There doesn’t seem to be much structure in the current shared apartment. The young people are sent out in the morning and can return in the evening.
The boy has no graduation certificate. “What do you do all day when you’re outside?” Mrs. Rat wants to know. The 15-year-old shrugs. He stopped taking the psychotherapy he had to undergo after his last suspended sentence and which the legal system paid for. He also failed to keep other care agreements. “No time because you’ve been driving around for a long time?” also Zendenleitner, who does not know what to do next with the defendant.
Return to the shared apartment
The boy says his captivity was educational for him. “No one came to visit me except my probation officer,” he reports, before being sentenced to 12 months in partial prison, of which four months are fixed.
The 15-year-old will soon travel through Vienna completely unaccompanied. It is entirely possible that the boy or his friends will soon get into an unlocked car again and thus become a danger to people traveling in Vienna.
Source: Krone
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