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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
Tim Piccione

Children should be safe from 'strangers trying to choke them' in bedroom: judge

The man, who is not named, leaves court earlier this week. Picture by Tim Piccione

Two 13-year-old children who were choked by a friend's retaliatory stepfather should have felt safe from such offending during a sleepover at one of the boy's homes, a judge has said.

"They're going to have an expectation they are safe from people, outsiders, strangers, walking through the front door and into the bedroom trying to choke them," Justice Verity McWilliam said.

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