By Cam Lucadou-Wells
A Narre Warren mother of five has broken her daughter’s arm after hurling a bowl of spaghetti across a room, a court was told.
The mother had been sitting on a couch eating spaghetti as the pair argued over the daughter not receiving any birthday presents.
The flung bowl shattered on a door frame next to where the 20-year-old victim stood, with a fragment hitting her arm, Dandenong Magistrates’ Court heard on 23 January.
The daughter’s arm required surgery at Casey Hospital.
The mother was charged with discharging a missile and served with an intervention order after the 5 January incident.
Her daughter had since moved out to live with a relative, the court was told.
A defence lawyer said the mother reacted poorly to a verbal barb from the daughter, but had not intended to hit the victim.
The pair had since “completely reconciled”, the lawyer said.
Describing the incident as an “abnormality”, the lawyer said “she has never had an issue with her kids”.
Magistrate Clive Alsop said he would not convict the mother since it was her first violent offence.
He was concerned that something could be done to “keep the family constellation together”.
The mother was given a 12-month good behaviour bond.
