A 15-year-old boy is in a coma after being caught up in a fight after 100 partygoers were involved in a fight at a party in Bayswater. Courtesy Channel Nine News
Jaiden, 15, remains in a critical condition. Source: Supplied
THE mother of a teenage boy left critically injured following a “coward’s punch” has pleaded with the person responsible to hand himself into police.
“Be honest, please,” Karyn, who wished to keep her surname unpublished, said in an appeal to her son Jaiden’s attacker.
“You might not realise that the outcome of your action is what it is now but you need to know and other young people need to know that this is not on.
“My son was invited to that party. He was not a gatecrasher. He’s a good boy.
“People get hurt for nothing. I’ve got my son who had the world at his feet and now he’s got a long road to go to get back to where he was.”
The teenager has been placed in an induced coma. Source: Supplied
The teenage victim’s brother, Anthony, and mother, Karyn, have appealed for the attacker to come forward Picture: Mark Dadswell Source: News Corp Australia
Jaiden was one of about 500 teens who had been at an underage rave at Bayswater Youth Hall on Station St, Bayswater, when its organisers called police to say they were concerned a group of people had gatecrashed the party on Saturday night.
Police attended and shut down the alcohol-free event about 9pm, forcing revellers out onto the street.
Despite many partygoers still hanging around the area, police left.
But at 10.30pm, they were called back to the scene as tensions had boiled over and a series of fights had broke out.
It was around this time Jaiden called his mother and asked her to come pick him up because he had been hit.
Police believe he was punched from behind by a young man running past as he walked away from the party, causing him to fall to the ground and hit his head on the footpath.
When his mother arrived, she said Jaiden had “quite a severe gash” to his face but was conscious.
“He was talking to me and I asked him all the questions a mother would ask (about what happened),” she said.
But on the drive home, the Rowville Secondary College student took a turn for the worse and started to have a seizure in the car.
She rushed him to the William Angliss Hospital in Ferntree Gully where he was immediately transferred to the Royal Children’s Hospital and placed in an induced coma.
He remains in a critical condition in the intensive care unit.
The Bayswater party where Jaiden was attacked. Picture: Flashback Melbourne Photography. Source: Supplied
Karyn said her son’s dream of playing professional soccer was shattered following the incident.
He was meant to travel to Italy next month for a trial with Italian Soccer Management (ISM) in Perugia.
She said he not only had the ability to go all the way, “but the desire” to play in the World Cup.
Detective Senior Constable Rick Rittinger, from Knox CIU, said it was disappointing to see another young man’s life changed because of a king-hit.
“It’s very frustrating because, as they are being called in the media ‘coward’s punch’, it’s a situation where the victim has no preparation, no knowledge of what’s about to happen and he’s not been able to prepare himself for what was about to happen,” he said.
Police are trawling through CCTV to see if the punch was captured on camera and to determine who the culprit was.
He was last seen running up Pine Rd and is described as being aged in his late teens to early 20s with blonde hair and was wearing blue jeans and a hoodie.
Detective Sen-Constable Rittinger appealed for witnesses or anyone with information about the incident to come forward to police or contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
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