THE FAMILY of a Halesowen teenager left scarred for life after a drunk schoolgirl smashed a wine bottle in her face have slammed the attacker's “lenient” sentence.

Sixteen-year-old Charlotte Ditchfield, who dreamed of becoming a model, was left with a scar across her forehead and another on her arm when she was cut by the jagged bottle in the brutal assault near a Wall Heath park.

Her attacker, aged just 14 at the time, cannot be named for legal reasons. She admitted wounding and was given a two year detention and training order at Wolverhampton Crown Court.

Charlotte's father Graham Ditchfield said the sentence should have been stiffer as his daughter, who was aged just 14 at the time of the attack, could have been killed as the glass missed her artery by millimetres.

Graham said: “We feel let down by the judicial system which appears to protect the young drunken irresponsible louts giving them lenient sentences and anonymity when they have committed serious crimes such as this because of their age.

“The sentence does not fit the crime which the judge said if she had been of adult age would probably have been a prison sentence of six years.”

Graham said the family does not blame the police or the judge who “had his hands tied because of the age of the attacker”.

Judge Anthony Cleary told the attacker, who was just 14 at the time of the incident in 2007 and had a string of previous convictions for violence: “Because of your irresponsible, feckless and drunken behaviour a young woman has been scarred for life” and said it was the skill of surgeons which saved her arm.

Kaylie Jones, aged 18, of Rodfly Lane, Pensnett, admitted affray after she pushed and punched Charlotte in the same incident and was given a 12 month custodial sentence suspended for two years.

Mr Bernard Linnemann prosecuting said Charlotte, who was 14 at the time, had met friends in the park and Jones and the other girl had been with a group which had been drinking heavily.

Mr Linnemann said Jones bumped into Charlotte before lashing out with a push and a punch.

The other girl then came onto the scene and she swung the wine bottle that shattered on contact with Charlotte's head and, as it carried on in an arc, it cut her on the arm.