A mother has been arrested after she allegedly stabbed her three children multiple times in their home in Sydney’s north-west.
New South Wales police Det Supt Naomi Moore said on Monday that the children’s father woke to yells in their Baulkham Hills home, and secured the kitchen knife from his partner.
He then reported the incident to police about 5.20am on Monday.
The three children – a 10-year-old boy, a 13-year-old girl and a 16-year-old girl – and the 46-year-old mother were in a stable condition and receiving medical treatment in hospital.
“We believe the father and the children were all in their rooms, and potentially all of them asleep when the mother has [allegedly] carried out this act,” Moore told reporters.
“Upon waking up to what I would believe to be a number of screams or yells, he’s then gone to approach the situation. And from what I am told, has secured the weapon and has contacted police.”
Moore said police had established a crime scene and and were yet to know the intent of the mother, who was under police guard in hospital, she said.
“That female is entitled to her medical treatment at the moment, and we have no intention of speaking to her until she is capable of being spoken to, which may be at some stage today,” Moore said.
She said it was the first time that police had responded to that home for “any type of domestic situation” and there had been nothing that had previously flagged any concern.
“It’s tragic ... it’s sad. It’s certainly not something that my staff or I want to wake up to on a Monday morning.”
