The girl's claims are part of a class action involving more than 500 children and young adults who have been held in Western Australia's notorious Banksia Hill Detention Centre.
A girl with severe autism was locked in solitary confinement at a WA juvenile detention centre for more than seven months, documents filed in the Australian Federal Court claim.The case involves hundreds of the detention centre's former detaineesclass action involving more than 500 children and young adults who have been held in Western Australia's notorious Banksia Hill Detention Centre.
In the affidavit, Mr Levitt alleges that while held there the girl was regularly locked in a cell alone for 23 hours a day.She was only allowed out for an hour each day into a small room, or a three-by-four metre concrete area enclosed by cyclone fencing. "She would sleep on the bare floor rather than the mattress because the mattresses were dirty with saliva and excrement."
The document also alleges she was held down and had her head banged against a wall by multiple officers. It is also claimed the girl was given very little access to education because of her long periods of solitary confinement and was not given adequate therapeutic support for her ASD.
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