On 27 August 2013, a 15-year–old Aboriginal boy was sent behind bars for seven years over a horrific attempted rape and beating he unleashed on an 88-year-old great-grandmother in her own home. In sentencing the Aboriginal youth, Perth Children’s Court President Denis Reynolds described the attack as “disgusting”, “cowardly” and the “worst” of its kind”. The Aboriginal boy had broken into the 88-year-old woman’s Great Southern home of more than 66 years while a co-offender syphoned fuel from machinery in a nearby shed. The court heard his crime had seen the elderly woman punched to the ground, repeatedly kicked and with items including a coffee table thrown at her head. The great-grandmother suffered bruises all over her body after the boy repeatedly punched and kicked her, and threw objects at her, including a ceramic pot at her head. In a victim impact statement, the woman said her head was “exploding”…