A 13-year-old girl was left with a broken nose following a vicious attack from a former school friend and her mother.
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The teenager was walking home from Rutherford Technology High School with her 15-year-old sister on April 4, last year, when a 41-year-old woman drove her car onto the wrong side of the road and onto the footpath toward the sisters.
The woman got out of the car, followed by her daughter, and pointed her finger at the 13-year-old, hit her cheek and pushed her.
When the girl’s sister came to her aid the woman pushed her hard against a metal fence.
The 13-year-old pushed the woman to get off her sister but was dragged to the ground by the woman’s daughter and was kneed in the face at least seven times.
As the two sisters ran away the woman yelled: “Yeah run away you pussies, run to your mum.”
The sisters were taken to Maitland Hospital where the 13-year-old was treated for a broken nose.
Police served the woman with an apprehended violence order the next day. She refused to be interviewed about the incident.
Following a mention of the matter in Maitland Local Court on September 18, last year, the woman said to the sisters: “Good luck you liars”.
Six hours later one of the sisters walked past the woman on her way into Rutherford shopping centre. The woman yelled at the 13-year-old as her daughter tried to make her leave.
Police obtained CCTV footage of the incident. The woman claimed the girl was screaming at her.
The woman appeared before court yesterday where she pleaded guilty to two counts of assault from the April incident and two counts of contravening an AVO.
The court heard, previous to the assault, the girls had been involved in a number of incidents, which the school was mediating.
The woman will be sentenced on September 5. Her daughter was not charged.
For legal reasons they cannot be named.