Teen bashed and burnt with ice pipe: court

A Sydney teenager who was allegedly detained by her boyfriend, bashed and burnt with an "ice" pipe was unrecognisable after the attack, her brother says.

A Sydney teenager, who was allegedly held captive by her boyfriend, bashed and repeatedly burnt with an "ice" pipe, spent six months in psychiatric care after her "escape", a court has heard.

To describe what happened to the girl on the eve of her 17th birthday in May 2013 as every "parent's nightmare" is an understatement, crown prosecutor Paul Leask told Sydney's District Court on Monday.

It is alleged the girl, who cannot be named, was held by her then boyfriend Jason Cicerkofski in his Arncliffe home in Sydney's south.

She was fastened to a chair with cable ties on or about May 11 to May 15.

Then - while Cicerkofski was with his father and another unknown man - the teenage girl was scratched and stabbed with a syringe, Mr Leask said.

A pipe used to smoke crystal meth or "ice" was also allegedly used to inflict burns over her body, while a gun and garden shears were used to threatened her.

"It was done to gratify a desire to cause harm and pain to her," Mr Leask told the jury.

He said she was finally able to escape and flee from the house in a "lucky break".

While it wasn't just Cicerkofski who caused the injuries, "the evidence will be that he was the one to primarily inflict the damage", Mr Leask said.

Cicerkofski, 23, has pleaded not guilty to detaining and causing her actual bodily harm.

In the opening day of his trial, the girl's mother said the teenager had been at home on the morning of May 11, opening her birthday presents, but left about noon.

Her daughter had been "jigging" school, was having issues with marijuana and alcohol and would stay over at friends' homes overnight, she said.

"She would always answer her phone or ring me and say Mum `I'm fine, I love you'."

But this time the mother said she couldn't get in touch with her daughter and so reported her missing to police.

When her daughter did reappear days later at her home, her eyes were blackened and swollen shut.

"What you saw was bad but mentally she was just numb ... she was empty," the mother said.

For the next six months she visited her daughter every day in a mental health facility.

Her brother told the court the family was in shock after seeing her.

"She was absolutely unrecognisable," he told the court.

Cicerkofski's defence barrister Tim Watts said the question was whether the crown could establish beyond reasonable doubt that it was his client who inflicted the injuries.

He also said there would be issues about the teen's reliability as a witness.

"She told her brother when he asked her what happened that she was having a kebab in Kings Cross when she was thrown in a van and dumped somewhere," Mr Watts said.

The trial continues.


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