Woman, 24, breaks five-year-old's collarbone after shoving her off trampoline

Jaime-Lee Ferguson, 24, admitted to having shoved the miss disconnected the borderline of a trampoline successful October past twelvemonth that led her being hospitalised for a breached collarbone

A pistillate broke a five-year-old girl's collarbone erstwhile she shoved her disconnected a trampoline.

The girl's collarbone was breached aft she was pushed from the raised borderline of the trampoline by Jaime-Lee Ferguson, 24. The Perth Sheriff Court heard Ferguson had been successful the centre of the trampoline portion the kid was extracurricular the information nett and past shoved the miss off.

Ferguson, from Perth, was charged with assaulting the kid connected October 15 past year. She admitted to the alternate complaint of culpable and reckless behaviour astatine a spot successful the metropolis arsenic good arsenic having pushed the kid successful the backmost causing her to fall.

Fiscal depute Kate Scarborough told the court: "The complainer was 5 years aged astatine the time. There is footage which shows the kid walking on the extracurricular borderline of the trampoline.

"There was a nett up, and the accused was connected the wrong of it. Essentially, she pushed the kid to her backmost done the netting, which caused her to autumn disconnected the trampoline to the floor, whereby she fractured her collarbone.

"In presumption of the injury, she was taken to mishap and exigency and was recovered to person a closed fracture. I don't judge overmuch successful the mode of further treatment was required. She was fixed a sling to deterioration for a play of time."

The Daily Record reported solicitor Steve Lafferty, defending, said: "She is mortified this has happened. They were successful precocious spirits, determination was a push, and she doesn't truly cognize wherefore she did it, but she knows it was wrong. It was connected to the grass. It wasn't that precocious and she didn't admit the effect it would have."

The tribunal heard the miss complained astir the symptom the time pursuing the incidental and was taken to hospital. "She profoundly regrets what happened," Lafferty continued.

"She has had her ain difficulties, which is reflected successful the societal enactment report. It is intelligibly a superior matter. She precise overmuch scored an ain goal. She has a precise slender grounds and has displayed immoderate insight. She said this was an accident, but she didn't recognize the nuances of what culpable and reckless behaviour is."

Sheriff William Gilchrist said helium would travel the proposal of the inheritance study and placed Ferguson nether a societal enactment supervision for six months.