On the steps of Victoria’s Parliament House in August, a devastated Frank D’Abaco fought back tears.
He told this reporter that his teenage son Jayden, 19, had been savagely beaten by African youths. The details were disturbing.
He said the group had set upon his boy after stalking him. He said one sliced the Werribee teen’s forehead with a shard of glass while others kicked, punched and choked him during a night out on August 24.
“I got like hit twice and that’s all I remember I think I got kicked in the ribs of something. I got a fractured nose,” Jayden told 9News at the time.
Jayden, who has autism, was left with a fractured eye socket and cuts and bruises but, more significantly, he was left with mental scars from the second attack of its kind in two years, he said.
“So this, on Saturday night, has completely destroyed the boy. No-one will ever know what they’ve done to him mentally,” Mr D’Abaco told news.com.au.
Frank D’Abaco, whose autistic son was bashed by a group of African youths on Saturday night, says the 19yo won’t come out of his room. “He’s broken,” he told @newscomauHQ
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But in a bizarre twist, police who originally told reporters they were looking for “eight young people” of “African appearance” now say Jayden may have fabricated the story.
Almost a month after Jayden returned home telling his family he had been bashed, a Victoria Police spokeswoman says the teen is likely to be charged.
“A 19-year-old man is expected to be charged on summons with submitting a false report,” she said.
“Victoria Police has provided appropriate support and referrals to parties involved.”
Jayden’s mother told the Herald Sun she does not know what to make of the twist in the story.
“I am baffled by the whole thing because clearly he was beaten up,” she said. “We still need to get to the bottom of it.”
Investigators had been searching for answers to what unfolded after Jayden started walking to the Mynt Lounge nightclub in Werribee about 10.30pm on August 24.
Jayden initially told police he was meeting friends after a football match when the group began following him.
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