- Three children and adult stabbed
- Trio rushed to hospital in stable condition
A father tried desperately to save his three childeren from their mother who allegedly went on a stabbing spree in the family home on Monday morning.
NSW Police were called to Jamieson Avenue, in Sydney‘s Baulkham Hills, at 5.20am where a 10-year-old boy, 13-year-old girl, a 16-year-old girl and 46-year-old woman were found stabbed. The mother was later arrested.
The father and the children were all asleep in their bedrooms when the mother allegedly went on a rampage.
The father managed to wrestle a knife off the mother but not before she had allegedly repeatedly stabbed their three children and herself.
Police were treating the incident as an attempted triple filicide and suicide attempt.
Hills Police Area Command Detective Superintendent Naomi Moore said police had been told the mother was acting erratically in the day leading it up to the attack and it was believed she was suffering a psychotic episode.
‘It’s a family home and that family is not known to police. No domestic violence incidents have ever been reported to police it’s completely unexpected,’ Detective Superintendent Moore said.
Police and ambulance workers take one of the stabbed persons to hospital
Police have established a crime scene at the Baulkham Hills home
Police are investigating multiple stabbings in Baulkham Hills
A photo in the house where multiple peole were stabbed
A number of people were stabbed at a northwest Sydney house on Monday morning
The 46-year-old woman was taken to hospital under police guard as a crime scene was established.
She was stabbed three times in the stomach, the young boy was stabbed twice in the chest, and both girls were stabbed three times in the arm and stomach.
Detective Superintendent Moore said the woman’s injuries were self-inflicted and although she was in a stable condition, she has not been interviewed by police.
One neighbour, who asked not to be identified, described the children as ‘friendly and lovely’.
She said the eldest child was in a wheelchair.
There was a picture in the house with the words: ‘This is my happy place.’