Two 15-year-old and 17-year-old boys were arrested for allegedly assaulting a staff member at the Adelaide Youth Training Centre on Sunday night, with minor injuries sustained by the worker. The alleged assault involved "makeshift weapons" and extensive property damage, according to police, who entered the room where the boys were barricaded around 9:55pm and made an arrest without incident. The boys have been charged with aggravated assault, property damage, and aggravated affray and are expected to appear in court today. Government frontbencher Blair Boyer said the government takes incidents like this "very seriously" and will review what happened internally.
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On Sunday night at the Adelaide Youth Training Centre in Cavan, a staff member working for Youth Justice was allegedly assaulted by two teenagers who were being held there. The 15-year-old and 17-year-old boys had barricaded themselves in a room, where they also caused extensive damage and used "makeshift weapons". When SA Police and STAR Group officers arrived at around 9:55pm, the boys were arrested without incident and charged with aggravated assault, property damage, and aggravated affray. The staff member suffered only minor injuries. The two teenagers are set to appear in the Adelaide Youth Court today.
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Two teenagers have been arrested for allegedly assaulting a staff member at the Adelaide Youth Training Centre on Sunday night.
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SA Police said STAR Group officers attended the centre and arrested the boys, aged 15 and 17, who had allegedly barricaded themselves in a room.
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Police said the boys, who were allegedly armed with what were described as "makeshift weapons", assaulted a Youth Justice worker "and were causing extensive damage within a section of the centre".
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The assaulted staff member at the Cavan facility sustained minor injuries, police said.
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Police were initially called about 8pm and said that STAR Group officers entered the room where the boys were barricaded about 9:55pm.
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The pair was arrested "without further incident" and charged with aggravated assault, property damage and aggravated affray.
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They are expected to appear in the Adelaide Youth Court today.
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SA government frontbencher Blair Boyer said the government took all such incidents "very, very seriously".
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"I'm sure there will be a further kind of review internally that [will] be done about how that occurred," he said during a press conference on Monday.
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I'm sure whatever review is done into the incident itself, separate to the criminal proceedings — because two people have been charged now — but I'm sure any kind of review into it will look at whether it was appropriately managed, the things leading up to it.
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"Any recommendations [that] flow from that, I'm sure the government will look very closely at that."
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