A group of children have been charged and warned over the events that led to the death of a 12-year-old girl in a car crash in the central Kimberley last year.
The girl died when the allegedly stolen car slid out and rolled on a dirt track near Fitzroy Crossing in July.
Police charged a 16-year-old boy with a string of driving offences last month, and have now revealed several other children caught up in the investigation have also been dealt with since the girl's death.
In addition to the dangerous driving charges, the teenage driver has been charged with aggravated robbery and car theft, allegedly stealing the car from a tourist campground earlier in the night alongside his 15-year-old friend.
CCTV footage taken at the time of the theft allegedly shows the boys taking the stolen car out onto the Great Northern Highway, which runs through the Fitzroy Crossing town centre, and out of frame.
Three other children, all girls under the age of 14, were given formal cautions for riding in the stolen car.
Police said the 15-year-old accomplice had since been dealt with through an intensive supervision order while the 16-year-old driver was still before the courts.
The charges and cautions are part of a rough road of healing for a community rocked by the tragedy.
The girl's death prompted a prolonged emotional upheaval in the community, with a Sorry Camp set up to allow family and friends from the Fitzroy Valley to mourn the girl and pay their respects.
Government services, community leaders, and police say attention needs to be sustained as juvenile justice problems continue to escalate across the region.
It also led to growing calls in Fitzroy Crossing and in the wider West Australian community to address the need for a government service to base themselves in the remote outback of the state.
The state government announced plans to fund a series of modest "community security grants" to deal with juvenile crime rates last month, but there has been little further detail.
