00:00It was the assault that shocked the Territory.
00:06It was an absolutely gut-wrenching, horrific incident.
00:09A nine-week-old baby and her mother hit with a fridge handle during a home invasion in Alice Springs last December.
00:16The baby left with a fractured skull.
00:19The 18-year-old offender, who can't be named for legal reasons,
00:23was last month handed a two-year intensive community corrections order to be served in Alice Springs, not in prison.
00:30I think everyone collectively was disappointed with the outcome.
00:34The NT's Director of Public Prosecutions now confirming it won't appeal the decision,
00:40meaning the non-custodial sentence will stand, angering some on the streets of Alice.
00:46Do you think that is an appropriate sentence?
00:48No, that's unfair. We were supposed to be sent to jail.
00:50We should probably go to prison. Yeah, that's it.
00:55Somebody that does that to a baby deserves at least ten years in prison
01:00so they can learn from their mistakes, because that baby's never going to be the same again.
01:05In sentencing the Aliawarra man, who was 17 at the time of the incident,
01:10Justice Sonya Brownhill said the offending would have been terrifying and traumatising for the victims.
01:17She also said he had shown remorse and a willingness to make amends.
01:22You want to change your life, grow up strong and be a good role model and teach others the right way.
01:28She also took his young age and nine months already served in detention into account.
01:34Last month, the DPP moved to appeal another decision by Justice Brownhill
01:39of hit-and-run driver Jake Danby, who ran down two pedestrians in broad daylight
01:44and also avoided a prison term.
01:47The ABC has confirmed that the family involved in this harrowing incident
01:51no longer lives in the house in Larrapinta where it occurred.
01:54They've now left Alice Springs altogether.
01:59the ABC's this far and the only one was left.
02:00It has no danger in the life.
02:01It has no danger of seeing this mistake.
02:02It was not a good place for her.
02:03The B�al.
02:04The entrance to Aliawarra man, who was on the day.
02:05The B�al.
02:07There was not a good place for them, to be in the early days,
02:08I was not a good place in the hospital.
02:09Its situation was a really tough place.
02:11It has no danger in different place.
02:12It has no danger in a place since the sea.
02:14The other place could have been walking from the city.
02:15It was a really tough place.
02:16It has no more room around, which in the city,
02:17There is no danger of being a danger.
02:19The actual depressive as any other people.
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