Woman managed to stagger to neighbour’s home for help and is now in hospital

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A pregnant woman stabbed multiple times during a northern Sydney home invasion managed to stagger, bloodied and screaming, to her neighbour’s home where she banged on the door for help.

The 33-year-old – said to be seven months’ pregnant – was stabbed numerous times in the chest and abdomen after confronting a teenage boy in her Mount Colah home on Thursday evening.

Her screams rang out through the cul-de-sac, Mark Bolger, a neighbour, said on Friday.

“She just knocked on our door and said ‘I’ve been attacked help me, help me’,” he told reporters.

“We could see blood but not her actual wound.



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“She was just totally distressed as we tried to ask her questions to get more information but she was so stressed she just couldn’t speak about many other things.”

Bolger said thewoman appeared to have fought off and disarmed her attacker.



“She’s supposedly disarmed him so one would assume the bloke had raced away,” he said.

Droplets of blood on the ground show the path she took to Bolger’s home.

Bolger said they tried to help the woman inside their home but she stayed slumped in his doorway – so they swaddled her with blankets until the police arrived.



She was rushed to Royal North Shore hospital, and is in a serious but stable condition, according to a hospital spokeswoman.

About an hour after the incident, NSW Police arrested a 14-year-old boy with hand injuries at a nearby home.

A police spokeswoman said he was undergoing surgery and was expected to be charged.



Drops of blood could be seen in the gutter outside the two-storey home where the boy was arrested.

Detectives spent Friday morning door-knocking the area while forensic police remained on scene collecting evidence.

It is understood the woman’s partner was not at home at the time of the attack, and Bolger said the young couple worked “24-7”.

He said he had met them only in passing since they moved into the street this year and he thought they were expecting their first child.

“The most important thing ... she’s well and the baby is well,” Bolger said.



Another neighbour, Forozan Faraee, said she would be praying for the woman and her unborn child.

“It’s a very safe area. We’ve been living here for seven years and we’ve never ever had this kind of tragedy,” she said.

“I just hope she’s getting better soon and back to her house.”