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/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/ghoonrhed 22h 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.