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
AN aspiring young soccer player has had his dreams of playing in the World Cup shattered after suffering a traumatic head injury when king-hit outside an out-of-control party.
Doctors have warned 15-year-old Jaiden’s family that his prognosis does not look promising.
His mother Karyn, who wished to keep their surname unpublished, fought back tears yesterday as she pleaded with the person responsible to surrender to police.
“Be honest, please,” Karyn said in an appeal to her son’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.”
Jaiden remains in a critical condition at the Children’s Hospital. 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 to Carrum Downs, 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 Children’s Hospital and placed in an induced coma.
He last night remained in a critical condition in the intensive care unit.
The Bayswater party where Jaiden was attacked. Picture: Flashback Melbourne Photography. Source: Supplied
Karyn said it was hard to see her son, who plays for Bentleigh Greens Soccer Club, laying in hospital as he had always been so active.
She was adamant he did not drink alcohol, take drugs or smoke cigarettes because his health and fitness was his priority as he pursued his dream to play soccer professionally.
He was due to go to Italy next month for a trial with the Italian Soccer Management (ISM) in Perugia, she said.
“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,” she said.
Police are trawling through CCTV in the area to see if the coward punch was captured on camera. The offender is described as being in his late teens to early 20s, was wearing blue jeans and a hoodie, and is believed to have blonde hair.
Anyone with information about the incident is urged to come forward to police or contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
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