The Wagga boy was 13 in September, 2013, when he broke into a Kooringal home and took a $3500 watch, earrings worth $5000, sunglasses worth $450, an iPad, laptop computer and a wallet containing $1600 cash.

The victims were asleep when the youngster crept into the house with unknown other thieves.

He was charged with aggravated break, enter and steal after it was confirmed the boy’s fingerprints were those found on a glass door.

On bail for that offence and for damaging the garage roller door of another Kooringal house, the boy jumped into a car that had been left with its motor running in Roma Street on October 28 last year.

Just minutes later, police saw the car doing 103 kilometres an hour in a 50km/h zone in Urana Street.

They gave chase but called of the pursuit when the boy passed two other vehicles on the inside along Glenfield Road. Straight after, the boy lost control of the Mazda 3 and rolled the car.

He was charged with police pursuit, car theft, possessing a prohibited drug (cannabis), unlicensed driving, driving in a dangerous manner and driving with an illicit drug in his system.

The boy’s solicitor, Hilary Russel, told magistrate Michael Crompton in Wagga Children’s Court the boy had suffered a “childhood of abandonment”, having virtually raised himself.

“His behaviour reflects someone alone in the world,” Ms Russell said.

Mr Crompton sentenced the boy to a number of concurrent control orders, the longest of which has a non-parole period expiring November 9, and good behaviour bonds.

“I hope he can comply with supervision on release from custody; it is tragic that a 14-year-old has no parent present, nowhere to live, and one hopes that these agencies can support him and help him to be rehabilitated on his release from custody,” Mr Crompton said.