A 16-year-old girl with cerebral palsy has been tasered by police at her school in Townsville in north Queensland.
Key points:
- Police say the girl lunged at an officer who then tasered her
- The teenager's mother is distressed by the incident and wants to lodge a complaint
- The girl's mother says the school went into lockdown during the incident
Police allege the teenager became aggressive and started damaging property while speaking with officers yesterday about a separate matter.
"As police and staff attempted to calm the girl, she lunged at an officer who subsequently deployed their taser," a police spokesperson said.
Paramedics were called to the school and the girl was taken to hospital in a stable condition.
Police said she suffered minor injuries.
The girl's mother told the ABC her daughter had cerebral palsy and suffered from seizures.
"I got a phone call from child safety first and they said 'are you up at the hospital? Are you going to the hospital?'," she said.
"I said 'what for? Did my daughter have a seizure or something?'
"They said 'no, we had to taser her'."
The girl's mother said she was angry with how her daughter was treated.
"She said that they tasered her twice, they had her handcuffed to the bed," she said.
"She's got cerebral palsy, she has seizures, and she's only got the use of one hand and she's not very good on her legs, so why taser her?
"I was really pissed off — I wanted to go up there and say things I shouldn't say to them."
'She had a cricket bat'
The girl's mother said her daughter was discharged from hospital hours later with bruises to her stomach.
She said the school went into lockdown because of the incident.
"They said that she [my daughter] had a cricket bat and she was smashing things with it," she said.
Police said the incident was under investigation.
The girl's mother said she would lodge a complaint with police.
"They just can't get away with this — they need to be held accountable," she said.
The school has been contacted for comment.
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