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Alice Springs mother Suputtra Meechai opens up about an axe attack on her 15-year-old son · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Staying in Alice Springs.
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  Speaker 2: We are going to hear from a mother whose son
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  Speaker 2: was brutally attacked by a group of yous while going
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  Speaker 2: for an afternoon walk in Braitlin. Her name is Saputra Micha,
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  Speaker 2: but she's known as Fawn and joins me on the
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  Speaker 2: line right now.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Fawn, Good morning Kenny. How are you not
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  Speaker 1: too bad? Fawn? What happened to your son?
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  Speaker 3: If I recall it back on Monday two weeks ago,
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  Speaker 3: on the thirtieth, my son went up for walk and
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  Speaker 3: exercise and expectually when he went to the park in
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  Speaker 3: Bradling area, there's a kids a bunch of kids were
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  Speaker 3: sitting there as well, and then they attack him with
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  Speaker 3: that axe.
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  Speaker 2: Fawn, you must have been absolutely beside yourself when you
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  Speaker 2: found out what had gone on.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, it's been a heart it's been a
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  Speaker 3: heart during in the last two weeks now, and I
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  Speaker 3: just telling myself just have to be strong to support
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  Speaker 3: my son and it's really hard, like it's for your
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  Speaker 3: aunt safety as well. He has become a bit concern
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  Speaker 3: for me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, I bet he has. It would be incredibly tough.
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  Speaker 2: Now phone tell me, was he badly injured in that initial.
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  Speaker 3: Attack, so he got crushed on his legs. That one
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  Speaker 3: is from the act. Luckily my son had like a
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  Speaker 3: sweatpants long sweatpants and then sucks, so the act doesn't
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  Speaker 3: really cut deep to his skin, so it's just like
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  Speaker 3: a scratch there. And also he gets like a kick
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  Speaker 3: and then hit around his body as well. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 3: we were a tent. I was bringity night the same
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  Speaker 3: day and we say that five hours there to get
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  Speaker 3: everything done. Even we do X ray.
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  Speaker 2: Now, so I understand that he was targeted again a
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  Speaker 2: few days later.
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  Speaker 1: What happened that time?
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  Speaker 3: So that was a Friday last week, So my frin
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  Speaker 3: just finished school around three o'clock. And then at the
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  Speaker 3: time that he woke out to waiting a bus and
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  Speaker 3: the bus station in front of the apparently the kid
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  Speaker 3: who attend him on Monday the day before, he come
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  Speaker 3: back with another kid. Like there are different kids, but
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  Speaker 3: one of them it's like related to the precious incident
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  Speaker 3: on Monday. He saw them first and then he ran
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  Speaker 3: back to school and start to school and talked to
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  Speaker 3: the principal that he recognized one of those guys. They've
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  Speaker 3: been waiting him outside the gate and I think he
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  Speaker 3: got like from what he taught me that he got
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  Speaker 3: like they're threatening him, like yell at him. So I
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  Speaker 3: got a phone call from the principle that afternoon informed
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  Speaker 3: me about the incident, and likely the principal offer my
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  Speaker 3: son to drop him home, not sure that he's safe,
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  Speaker 3: and I attend the local police station to make a report.
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  Speaker 1: For what are the police, Like, what have they told
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  Speaker 1: you at this point?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so police attend my heart to take more information
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  Speaker 3: from the second incident in the school, and then they
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  Speaker 3: just given up that from the first incident incident on Monday.
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  Speaker 3: They still doing some investigation. So yeah, I really with
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  Speaker 3: things can get in place and get it done quickly.
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  Speaker 3: It's just yeah, fun.
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  Speaker 1: How is your son going?
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  Speaker 3: He's a bit down, He's okay. He tried to be strong,
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  Speaker 3: he attended school. He just tried to keep living a
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  Speaker 3: normal life day to days. But I can tell that
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  Speaker 3: and mentally he got a lot of anxiety. He's feeling unsafe,
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  Speaker 3: like even me just to let my gut my son
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  Speaker 3: go to school, always thinking a lot that what's going
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  Speaker 3: to happen? You never know, And we're still in this
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  Speaker 3: sun all this spring, and then the kid is just
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  Speaker 3: out there. They're not getting old anywhere. So yeah, oh fun, how.
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  Speaker 1: Are you going? You must be absolutely beside yourself.
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  Speaker 3: I'm feeling really done and real it's that what's just
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  Speaker 3: happening to my son, and it's just really make me
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  Speaker 3: realize that the community that we live in just not
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  Speaker 3: longer a safe place for us, and I'm thinking to
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  Speaker 3: move art from this sun that's I think that's the
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  Speaker 3: best way for me and my son.
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  Speaker 2: I can understand why you're feeling that way, because you know,
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  Speaker 2: we as parents do everything that we can to try
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  Speaker 2: to keep our kids safe, and you know, then for
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  Speaker 2: something like that to happen, and not only once, but
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  Speaker 2: then to be threatened again just last Friday, I can't
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  Speaker 2: imagine how you must be feeling.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's just like an ongoing issue, Like I
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  Speaker 3: don't know, like when they're going to come back for
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  Speaker 3: my son next year, in the next two weeks. I
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  Speaker 3: never know that. So yeah, for a safe consent. It's
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  Speaker 3: just really worrying me that much at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for.
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  Speaker 2: What, Like, what do you think needs to happen in
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  Speaker 2: the town right now, because you know, what's happened to
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  Speaker 2: your young fellow is not good. Enough, you should not
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  Speaker 2: have to worry about that. Like, what do you think
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  Speaker 2: needs to happen?
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  Speaker 3: I need a chance, I think, well, I mean, like
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  Speaker 3: I really wish that a really a proper legislation regards
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  Speaker 3: to the loads with kids underage doing stuff like this
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  Speaker 3: because for me, like kids they do some criminal things
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  Speaker 3: and they get bailed with condition, it's just not enough.
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  Speaker 3: It's not giving them a different attack. And in fact
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  Speaker 3: that's happened in the sound a lot of kids. They
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  Speaker 3: can run around and they're thinking that, okam, so I
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  Speaker 3: should be good to go and a take to make
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  Speaker 3: a car or hurt somebody because they're now at the
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  Speaker 3: end of the day they will get bail. Well, as
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  Speaker 3: the mother of my kids, my children, I'll just stand
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  Speaker 3: really straightforward to my kids and tell them that's not
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  Speaker 3: right things. But it's that when they go out there,
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  Speaker 3: and then as my environment, just like that, Okay, kids
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  Speaker 3: can go and do things and they're not getting anything.
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  Speaker 3: It's not even gonna help. So I hope they can
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  Speaker 3: make something or cancel legislation in place about criminals with kids,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I mean, But unfortunately I don't have
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  Speaker 3: that power in my hand. I believe that so many
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  Speaker 3: people out there they think the same as well, that
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  Speaker 3: they really need a really strong rules of proper rules
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  Speaker 3: to everyone in this community to make community safe.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, and by the sound of it, you've
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  Speaker 2: reached the point where you really don't want to continue
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  Speaker 2: living there.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, I absolutely had enough with this son, Like
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  Speaker 3: I think, like for work wise, it is good, and
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  Speaker 3: then people here lustily like amazing that this is a
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  Speaker 3: really good community. But just out there's some people they
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  Speaker 3: do kind of stuff like this, which is absolutely like,
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  Speaker 3: that's sad, Like, yeah, I'm just not good.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, it's incredibly sad.
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  Speaker 2: And for what you've been through with your son over
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  Speaker 2: the last couple of weeks is utterly heartbreaking. You know,
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  Speaker 2: your son shouldn't feel unsafe walking to school or going
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  Speaker 2: to school. You know, to be assaulted with an axe
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  Speaker 2: is the stuff that nightmares are made off.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I really appreciate you having a chat with me
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  Speaker 2: this morning. We'll stay in contact with you. I'm keen
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  Speaker 2: to hear you know how things do progress us over
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  Speaker 2: the next few days, So please stay in contact with us.
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  Speaker 2: I really appreciate you taking the time to speak with
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  Speaker 2: us this morning to give our listeners a bit of
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  Speaker 2: an understanding of what it's been like for you and
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  Speaker 2: your son and your family over the last couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you for having us.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Really appreciate your son.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Von, I appreciate yours.