A teenager and another girl who broke into a West Albury house bashed the resident after she caught the pair in the act, a court has heard.
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But just before that attack, the 16-year-old chased the victim on to the verandah of another house and punched her to the face.
When later arrested by police at her home, as her parents stood beside her, she offered to show officers the loot.
The stolen goods - including a Samsung television, a quantity of CDs and DVDs, a handbag containing a wallet and bank cards and a sports bag full of gifts for the victim's father - had been dumped in bins at the nearby Westside Community Centre in Mulga Place.
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Now 17, the girl pleaded guilty in Albury Children's Court on Monday, through her lawyer, to charges of aggravated break and enter dwelling in company to steal and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
That came after police withdrew a charge of stealing.
Given the "seriousness of the offences," magistrate Rodney Brender was asked to order a report for her sentencing on August 12.
The girl did not appear before Mr Brender, though he was told she was in the court precinct.
The court heard how the victim left her home on April 28 about 6.30pm to have dinner with a friend who lived next door.
During this time, the girl and her girlfriend entered the victim's house after forcing the back door.
The two girls then began taking property from the house.
The victim returned about 8.30pm and on seeing the back door was open, walked inside.
It was then that the victim realised there were people in the house, so she ran out the front door.
The girl, with her accomplice, walked around the side of the house then chased the victim to a house in Hibiscus Crescent and punched her to the face.
"The complainant covered her head and went to the ground, where she received a number of ... kicks and punches," police said.
The pair fled and the victim called police and paramedics, who took her to Albury hospital to be treated for a bruised eye and "a number of bruises and abrasions to her upper body".
Police went to the girl's house at 2.45am and spoke to her in the presence of her parents.
While she declined to be interviewed, she allowed them to search her room and then agreed to show them where the stolen property had been stashed at the community centre.
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