A MAN who repeatedly assaulted his parents while intoxicated has been released from custody on a community corrections order.
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The 25-year-old appeared in the Bendigo Magistrates' Court last week when he pleaded guilty to seven charges including unlawful assault and contravening a family violence order.
The court heard in July last year, the man became upset in the backyard of his parents' home, crying and damaging property.
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The man attempted to leave the home in his mother's vehicle but was stopped.
He then walked back to the house and smashed the front window before walking into his parents' bedroom.
The man started wrestling with his father, and as a result two windows in the room were smashed.
Police arrived and the man was arrested and taken to the Bendigo Police Station.
The court heard the man was too intoxicated to be interviewed straight away. When he was interviewed a few hours later, he admitted to police he had broken the window.
Police applied for a family violence safety notice at the Bendigo Magistrates' Court three days later and an intervention order was issued.
The court heard then in April this year, the man's mother called police saying her son was agitated and refusing to leave her house.
Two police officers attended the address but the man had already left.
The officers found the mother in her bedroom with blood coming down the left side of her face. She refused to tell police what had happened.
The woman's husband told police the 25-year-old had started an argument with the woman, leading to him hitting her in the side of the head before leaving.
Police arrested the man in May this year. He appeared at the Bendigo Magistrates' Court that month where a family violence intervention order was granted against him.
The court heard then in September this year, police attended the mother's home after a 000 call.
An officer saw the man in the front of the home in an intoxicated state. He was arrested on two outstanding warrants.
Police saw the mother was bleeding from a cut behind her left ear. She told police she was hit by her son during an argument, but refused to share any further information.
The court heard the man became aggressive with officers during the police interview. He admitted to being at his mother's house while intoxicated, which breached his intervention order.
The man's defence counsel told the court the man used alcohol as a way to deal with trauma.
The lawyer said the man had been in custody for four days and it was his first time in prison.
Magistrate Rodney Higgins sentenced the man to a four-day jail term, which was reckoned as already served.
He was also required to complete a 12-month community corrections order.
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