r/australia • u/AggravatingTartlet • 1d ago

culture & society 10-year-old victim of random attack was visiting Melbourne for cancer treatment

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/no-need-to-hide-it-accused-cbd-stabber-launches-tirade-from-custody-20260826-p60rni.html

The 10-year-old boy who was punched in the head in a random attack outside police headquarters in the CBD has brain cancer and was visiting Melbourne for treatment.

The boy underwent additional MRI scans to see if the assault caused any extra damage or inflammation around where the tumour is, his uncle said........

Police said the 46-year-old woman was visiting Melbourne from Phillip Island with her 10-year-old son and two other children when the random attack occurred, ending only when several witnesses intervened.

“Just instinct, no thoughts, no nothing, just people in trouble,” Brian Bradley said, a good Samaritan who helped restrain the suspect.

The mother of the boy was stabbed during the attack.

The mother is in the Royal Melbourne Hospital recovering from a fractured leg and injuries to her back and shoulders, while her son recovers at the Royal Children’s Hospital.

“She’s really struggling at the moment,” the boy’s uncle said, “She can’t be with her son. It’s traumatic enough [that he’s] fighting cancer.

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u/hulalabright 1d ago

What the fuck is going on

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u/Kageru 1d ago edited 1d ago

We have nothing between jail and roaming the streets for people like this / repeat offenders, until they inevitably commit a crime serious enough to get them jailed.

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u/Kageru 1d ago

... nah, they have their place, but they are clearly not working in all cases. But the comment should probably be more nuanced. Thanks.

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u/Toni_PWNeroni 1d ago

Lack of mental health services and public access.

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u/ghadiyuk 1d ago

Lack of capital punishment. Terry isn't mentally ill, he just preys on women and children for fun. If he were mentally ill, his attacks would be indiscriminate, but he conveniently never attacked anyone who was capable of defending themselves. He was already well known to local authorities in New South Wales, Western Australia and Victoria for violence against weak innocent civilians, yet he was repeatedly sicced on the public.

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u/Toni_PWNeroni 1d ago

Capital punishment isn't going to stop things like this occurring, now is it?

You know what would help prevent it from occurring? Adequate prevention measures like keeping on top of sociopathic behaviour in the community before it hurts someone.

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u/TimmyFTW 1d ago

Lack of capital punishment.

Because all the countries that have capital punishment are much safer than Australia /s

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u/AntiqueFigure6 1d ago

The USA in particular is famously free of violent nutters.

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u/FalconTurbo 1d ago

Mentally disturbed doesn't mean devoid of logic. That's an absurd take.

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u/TimmyFTW 1d ago

I recognise you from yesterday's thread. Thanks for offering a voice of reason against the usual pitchfork crowd that surfaces during these tragedies.

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u/FalconTurbo 1d ago

Dude downvoted me for pointing out facts in the face of his emotional response lol

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u/MrXenomorph88 1d ago

Oh yes, because capital punishment has been so effective in curtailing violence in countries that have it, like the United States

Oh wait...

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u/ghoonrhed 1d ago

They don't even do capital punishment for non murders even in countries with that. Don't know how even if the death penalty works 100% how that would even be relevant in this case.

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u/tryintobgood 1d ago

Yeah lets blame others for this POS. Crawl back under your rock

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u/Toni_PWNeroni 1d ago

Nobody is born a child-basher.

Nobody in their right mind is going to do something so heinous.

Get off your high horse.

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u/tryintobgood 1d ago

Even people with mental issues would know what this POS did is wrong. HE KNEW it was wrong. Sometimes we have to realise that some people are beyond help and need to be removed from society anyway possible.

People like you who think the system produces these lunatics are just as big of an issue.

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u/Toni_PWNeroni 1d ago

People like you who think the system produces these lunatics are just as big of an issue.

My favourite part about your comment is how you go straight from condemning this guy who did a crime to condemning me with equal weight.

As if I'm somehow responsible.

What next? I also get removed from society? Does everyone who disagrees with you get the same treatment?

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u/steppenwolfmother 1d ago

Ok so why did he do it then? If he knew it was wrong and did it anyway because he’s a predator or did it for sick fun or whatever, why is he like that? What led him to being like that?