By Xavier Smerdon
A WERRIBEE schoolgirl at the centre of a massive brawl in the centre of town last month has spoken out, saying that teenagers in the area get a bad wrap.
Star reported on 1 March that a fight between youths in Watton St on Tuesday 22 February had shocked onlookers and required police intervention.
Seventeen-year-old Georgia Rowe told Star she was crossing Watton St with several of her friends after getting lunch when an unknown man neglected to slow down and almost ran them over.
Georgia said that the man yelled at the group and after they yelled back, he got out of his car and attacked her and another girl.
“We were going to go down an alley because he said he was going to get out of his car and hit us, but I didn’t think he would hit a girl so I told him just to keep driving,” Georgia said.
Georgia claims that the man then got out of his car and approached the group after which the verbal argument escalated to a physical one.
“Then he pulled my hair and pushed me to the ground and kept punching me in the face,” she said.
“And then he picked up a chair and hit my friend across the face with the chair.”
The Year 12 students said that once people saw what was happening they jumped to the girl’s aid.
Detective Senior Constable Corey Page said the investigation was ongoing but confirmed that the man accused of attacking the girls was not from the Wyndham area.
“It’s an extremely complicated investigation simply because so many people were involved,” Sen Const Page said.
“We just want to dot every I and cross every T and ensure that everything is conducted in the correct way.”
Georgia’s mother Kerry said she would be pressing charges against the man and felt that he was in the wrong, not the teenagers.
“I’m not letting him get away with it. I mean this guy was about 30 apparently,” Kerry said.
“There’s good and bad in every suburb, but I think they (teenagers) get enough flak from everyone out here, there is always something horrible happening in Werribee to do with teenagers.”
