Teen's cruel attack on burns victim

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MELBOURNE - A woman who bound and gagged a burns victim before dousing him in kerosene and forcing him to eat dog food subjected him to a "cruel, degrading and terrifying ordeal", a Melbourne court has heard.

Georgia Bucknell, 18, was yesterday sentenced to two years in a youth detention centre for the attack on the male teenager in the early hours of November 19, 2009.

The Victorian County Court was previously told Bucknell, accompanied by some friends, led the attack on the victim in his home after hearing he was spreading rumours about her.

She threatened her victim with a knife, tied him to a chair, splashed him with kerosene, force-fed him dog food and told him: "This is what dogs eat, f***in' eat it."

A lit object was placed close to the victim, aged 18, and she hit him on the back of the head with a broom handle. Bucknell knew her victim had suffered burns when he was a year old.

County Court Judge Frank Gucciardo said: "This was a cruel, degrading, terrifying ordeal of fear and violence, which is intolerable to any right-thinking member of the community."

Bucknell pleaded guilty to aggravated burglary, false imprisonment, armed robbery and two counts of theft.

Judge Gucciardo said Bucknell would be reassessed for parole after six to nine months at the detention centre.

- AAP