‘Terrifying’: Victorian prison officers put spit hood on a child held at an adult facility

In February, the child contacted the Victoria Commission for Children and Young People from an adult prison to report that officers had used a spit hood on him that day, sparking a probe. Photograph: Jonny Weeks/The Guardian

A Victorian child being held in an adult prison was placed in a spit hood while spending months confined to his cell for up to 23 hours a day, the state’s children’s commissioner has revealed.

According to the state’s Commission for Children and Young People’s (CCYP) annual report, tabled in parliament on Wednesday, the child was kept in “effective isolation” for 24 weeks out of eight months.