Brutal Birthday Gang-Bashing Forces Family to Flee Melbourne for ‘Tougher’ State

After her teenage son was brutally bashed and left with a fractured eye socket, a Melbourne mother says she’s had enough—and they will be relocating to another state that’s “tougher” on youth crime.

Jack was mercilessly bashed, then robbed at Pakenham in Melbourne’s far east on his 18th birthday party on June 1.