By BRIDGET COOK
POLICE have charged one boy and arrested others following the assault and stabbing of a teenager in Cranbourne on Saturday night.
Police today charged a 15-year-old boy from Maidstone with intentionally causing serious injury and other assault related offences.
Two 14-year-old boys, from Endeavour Hills and Dandenong North, and a Patterson Lakes boy, 15, were also arrested on yesterday and have all been released.
They are expected to be charged on summons, police said.
Police said they expect to make more arrests.
The charges come after Ben Phillips, 14, from Narre Warren, was allegedly assaulted and stabbed in Clarendon Street, Cranbourne, while walking a friend home from a party about 10pm on Saturday.
The teenager suffered lacerations to his torso and was taken to the Royal Children’s Hospital suffering critical injuries.
His condition has since improved and he is now in a serious but stable condition.
The incident has sparked claims of racial tension in the community, something police have denied.
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