{"id":410785,"date":"2025-11-28T14:57:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T14:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/410785\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T14:57:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T14:57:17","slug":"boy-wont-face-charges-after-melbourne-primary-school-stabbing-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/410785\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy won&#8217;t face charges after Melbourne primary school stabbing, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police say a boy who allegedly stabbed an 8-year-old student at a primary school in Berwick, in Melbourne&#8217;s outer south-east, will not be charged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The boy was treated for non-life-threatening injuries after the incident on the grounds of Brentwood Park Primary School about 9am on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The school on Bemersyde Drive and a neighbouring high school were briefly put into lockdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A female staff member also suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police said that following the incident they spoke to an 11-year-old boy who was then taken to hospital for assessment.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A magpie in a school playground near a brick building.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/d6b5f2eb97ac535fedf1ce40004b9bff\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Police say the boy officers spoke to after the stabbing will not be charged. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">On Friday evening Victoria Police released a statement saying no charges would be laid over the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;The 11-year-old boy will not be charged as the minimum age of criminal responsibility is 12,&#8221; a spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Victoria Police continue to work with government partners to ensure all those involved are supported.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The Department of Education issued a statement on Thursday saying it was supporting the injured student and the staff member, as well as anyone else who needed it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say a boy who allegedly stabbed an 8-year-old student at a primary school in Berwick, in Melbourne&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":410786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,193241,193240,53474,50,193239,7358,8344],"class_list":{"0":"post-410785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-berwick","10":"tag-child-offender","11":"tag-lockdown","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-school-stabbing","14":"tag-stabbing","15":"tag-victoria-police"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115627913979791232","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}