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A teenager from the Land Down Under has faced legal proceedings after reportedly vandalizing a sizable art piece of a legendary being by applying googly eyes to it.

The 19-year-old, 19 years old, participated remotely at the local court in South Australia on that day, facing with one count of property damage.

In a statement at the moment of the September incident, the municipal authorities said that surveillance video showed a person putting artificial eyes on the sculpture, which residents have dubbed the “Cast in Blue”.

The accused made no plea and informed the judge she was ill, as reported by news outlets, with the magistrate advising her to secure a legal representative before her upcoming hearing in the final month of the year.

The following day the reported event, the city leader said that repairs to the much-loved public artwork would be expensive as the stickers were impossible to be detached without harming the sculpture.

“This intentional vandalism to a valued public artwork is inappropriate and disrespectful,” Mayor Lynette Martin said in mid-September. “It is not harmless fun, it is costly - it is also frustrating to those members of our community who have embraced the Blue Blob.”

The mayor added the local government would pursue the “significant” repair costs from those accountable for the damage.

At the time the sculpture was first proposed, it drew varied responses from the area residents due to its price tag and appearance.

Costing A$136,000 (eighty-nine thousand US dollars; sixty-eight thousand pounds), the sculpture depicts a legendary giant animal, with the sculpture’s designers inspired by an prehistoric marsupial ant-eater discovered in local caves that was “huge, slow-moving, and intriguing”.