Mother arrested after three children stabbed in Sydney’s Baulkham Hills

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A mother has been arrested after her children were found with stab wounds at their home in Sydney’s north-western suburb of Baulkham Hills. Police allege the woman attempted to take her own life and kill her three children. NSW police’s Detective Superintendent Naomi Moore says the incident was ‘unexpected’ as there had been no record of the family’s contact with police for domestic violence.

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00:00A tragic turn of events have unfolded here in Sydney's northwest suburb of Borkham Hills

00:07where emergency services were called to a home at around 5.15am this morning to find

00:13a 47-year-old woman and her three children, including one child who is wheelchair bound,

00:19to be suffering multiple stab wounds.

00:21Now police allege that it was their mother, the 47-year-old woman, who carried out this

00:27incident and it was their 57-year-old father who woke to their screams in the early hours

00:33of the morning.

00:34He seized the weapon that was being used which was a kitchen knife and then called the police.

00:39Now police allege that the mother tried to take her own life and then also kill her three

00:46children.

00:48And when it comes to this family, they're not known to police.

00:52Police say that this was the first time that they have been called to the property or had

00:58contact with the family.

01:00Let's have a quick listen to what they had to say.

01:02That family home is really not known to police if I'm honest with you.

01:06The three children all attend local schools, a relatively normal family and if I can say

01:10to you this is probably completely unexpected.

01:14There's certainly no domestic violence history reported to police on our records.

01:18There's no AVOs.

01:20This is the first time police have responded to this house for any type of domestic situation.

01:26The 47-year-old mother and her three children have been taken to Westmead Hospital for medical

01:31attention as police continue their investigation, examining the crime scene, gathering evidence

01:37to find out what just happened here.

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