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By David Weber. Topic: Courts. The Perth Children's Court has heard horrific details of how five teenagers open the prospect of sex to lure men, using the app Grindr, to secluded areas of Perth before brutally attacking them. When the men arrived they were set upon by the teenagers, who were armed with a variety of weapons including a knife, machete, a metal bar, pepper spray and a taser.

Each of the five boys was jailed on Wednesday afternoon, with the longest sentence being two years and two months. Five teenage boys who brutally assaulted men they lured to secluded locations in Perth with the promise of sex, using the social media app Grindr, have been sentenced to terms in detention. Horrific details of brutal assaults inflicted by the group were aired in the Perth Children's Court, including victims being stripped, tasered, filmed and chased into traffic.

Judge Wendy Hughes said their behaviour could never be justified. One boy was sentenced to two years and two months in detention, the longest of the sentences, with the others receiving at least 18 months each. The five teenagers admitted viciously bashing and robbing men they met in Perth using a fake profile on social media dating app Grindr to arrange meetings at night for sex.

But bar the men arrived, they were attacked by the teenagers who were armed with a variety of weapons including a knife, machete, a metal bar, pepper spray and a taser. One man was stripped naked, threatened with drowning and chased into a swamp after being punched in the face and tasered, fire teeth in the process, the court heard.

His wallet was stolen and the teens tried to force him to confess to being a paedophile on teen, but he refused. A knife or machete was held to the victim's throat before he was taunted and chased naked into a nearby swamp. After hiding in reeds he eventually emerged and passed out on the swamp gay before coming to and seeking help.

Naked photographs of him were threatened distributed on social media by one of the boys. Grindr is a popular dating app for gay men. In another case, the boys arranged to meet a man in the southern Perth suburb of Hamilton Hill, but when he arrived, he was confronted by up to eight teens wearing ski masks and hoodies, one wielding a kitchen knife.

His car windscreen was smashed with boulders and his next memory was of finding himself in a house with an older couple, bleeding from the head and with "blood all over his clothes".

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In the southern Perth suburb of South Lake, another man was chased by the teens and hit in the back of his head "with something hard", the court was told. Vacant land on Stillwater Gardens in South Lake where one of the attacks took place. The victim ran towards a road and was clipped by a vehicle, before the boys grabbed him and took him to some nearby trees and hit on the head again.

The prosecutor said the victim "had no memory of the next half an hour", but a video recording seized showed the man being assaulted as he was lying on his back and trying to speak. A taser was held to the man's genitals, but not discharged. The victim's next memory was being in a service station, without his wallet and phone.

Another man was assaulted in South Lake after he found himself surrounded by a group of teens, one brandishing a machete. Two of the boys stole his car while the others chased him, pulled to the ground and kicked him all over his body and neck. In another incident, rocks were thrown at a victim's car after he arrived at a South Lake address where he thought he was going to meet with someone.

But he was able to lock his doors and stay in the car when he spotted a group of males approaching, who then pelted the vehicle with rocks.