Community safety
Sam GROTH (Nepean) (13:19): I also just want to raise the disturbing issue of violent assaults being perpetrated by young Victorians, especially those that are being posted to social media for 5 minutes of fame by the people committing these heinous crimes. We have recently seen an elderly gentleman pushed into the water down in Mornington, off the pier, and even more recently a 14-year-old girl with autism beaten by young offenders in Altona. I am a parent, and many others in this place are parents, but you do not have to be. What we saw in those videos is completely disgusting and there is no place for it in Victoria. But more to that, it should be an offence for those people to post those videos to social media. That little girl now will not go out in public, and she will not go to school. We need to do more to make sure that the victims of these attacks are protected properly.