Three boys aged six to 10 showed no remorse for causing $10,000 of damage in two attacks on an Invercargill school, its principal said today.
Clarendon School principal Jo Turner said she and a police officer caught two of the boys -- brothers aged six and eight -- smashing 50 windows
and trashing a classroom yesterday.
Their 10-year-old cousin, who was not from Invercargill, was brought to school by his parents, she told National Radio today.
Mrs Turner and police got the boys to clean up their mess, she said.
"(But) There wasn't any remorse at all from these children," she said.
"In fact they had quite a bad attitude to me and not much better to the police officer."
The parents of the two brothers did not show up at the school yesterday.
None of the boys attended the school, but they admitted they had vandalised Clarendon the previous weekend, when 22 windows were broken.
Mrs Turner said this weekend they also broke into a classroom and squirted paint from art supplies inside and out, and damaged children's work when they knocked over books and toys.
Commercial cleaners would be brought in to help fix the damage, bringing the total cost for the two weekends to about $10,000.
She said she had never heard of vandals so young -- "It's absolutely shocking."
Police would refer the boys to Youth Aid but because of their age "probably not a lot will happen" to them, she said.
The six-year-old had caused damage at his own school, his principal had told Mrs Turner.
- NZPA
