None of her family wants her, she’s been shunned by her mother and her grandmother, and the Albury teen is too young for a youth refuge.

So for now, she will remain in juvenile detention.

EDITORIAL: This girl needs a safe place.

The girl, with another girl, 14, from North Albury, were apprehended after two Lavington homes were broken into early on Monday.

Albury Children’s Court yesterday heard details of how a woman cowered in fear with her children, aged eight and 11, in a bedroom as the girls ransacked her home.

Magistrate Megan Greenwood was told they had gone to the home in Henderson Street, used a rock to smash a window of a vehicle in a carport and took a handbag, wallet and other personal items.

The woman then heard the back laundry door being forced open.

She called triple-0 and her husband, who was at work at a bakery in Wodonga at the time.

The husband, who left his house keys at work in his rush to get home, arrived and kicked the front door in.

The girls tried to escape but he managed to grab one of them before being punched.

Police quickly apprehended one girl and the other was arrested at 1.45pm on Monday.

The court was told that before that break-in, the girls had stolen property from four vehicles.

They had obtained keys to three of the cars from a house in Ross Circuit.

The house has a hair salon at the front and the girls got in through a window and took a variety of property including a handbag, wallet and the keys.

The teens pleaded guilty yesterday to two counts of aggravated break and enter offences in company and four counts of theft.

Both were refused bail and will remain in custody until sentencing on August 21.

Solicitor Charles Aitken made a bail application for one of them but he conceded she had nowhere to live.

Ms Greenwood’s refusal of bail for the other girl was based on a concern she would further offend.