The Northern Territory Director of Public Prosecutions is considering an appeal after a teenager who broke into an Alice Springs home and fractured a baby’s skull escaped jail time.

It is the second possible appeal flagged by the DPP this week following concerns over two sentences for serious offenders delivered by the same judge.

Justice Sonia Brownhill sentenced the 18-year-old man, who can’t be named as he was 17 at the time of the offending, to two years prison. But instead of sending him to jail, she ordered the sentence by served via an intensive community corrections order.

The 18-year-old was one of two teenagers who broke into the home of the Siguenza family in Alice Springs last December in search of alcohol.

The teenager swung a metal fridge handle and struck Nicole Siguenza

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