Accused 12-Year-Old Killer Threatens to ‘Burn’ Facility

It’s alleged she stabbed a 37-year-old woman to death at Footscray in Melbourne’s inner west on Nov. 16.

An Australian flag flies at the Supreme Court of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, on Oct. 27, 2023. Melanie Sun/Susan Mortimer/The Epoch Times

A 12-year-old girl accused of murder threatened to harm children, staff and burn down the secure welfare facility she has been bailed to, a court has been told.

The details can be revealed after Victoria’s Department of Families, Fairness and Housing lost an attempt to suppress much of the case at the Supreme Court on Dec. 22.