Bashed teen out of coma

PA Hospital

By Jeremy Sollars

BREAKING: A 15-year-old girl who was assaulted by two other teenage girls on a Warwick street early last week has come out of an induced coma and is understood to be making progress towards recovery.
The girl was repeatedly punched and kicked in the head in the early hours of Tuesday 10 October by two females aged 18 and 16 near the corner of Canning and Percy streets, while walking home from a party.
She was flown to Brisbane’s Princess Alexandra Hospital around 9am on the Tuesday morning where she underwent emergency brain surgery before being placed in an induced coma.
A PA Hospital spokeswoman told the Free Times today, Wednesday 16 October, that the girl had been moved from intensive care to a general ward and was in a stable condition.
The spokeswoman said the girl would be transferred to Brisbane’s Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital in the next few days “for rehabilitation”.
The girls charged with the brutal assault of the 15 year old may spend Christmas behind bars after their applications for release from custody on bail were refused by a magistrate last week.
Shannon Angela Williams, 18, and her co-accused, a 16 year old female juvenile who cannot be named due to her age, appeared before the Toowoomba Magistrates’ Court last Thursday 12 October.
They are both charged with assault causing grievous bodily harm and remain in custody until their next court appearance on Tuesday 19 December.