Baby is left ‘blinking blood’ after rock thrown through window causes shards of glass to rain down on her
- Rock thrown through baby room’s window
- Baby left showered in glass and bleeding
- Gold Coast doctors treated cuts and bruises
A four-month-old baby was left covered in glass and ‘blinking blood’ after a rock was thrown through her bedroom window.
The horrendous attack happened in the Gold Coast suburb of Worongary at about midnight on Monday.
Mother April Stanley said she was woken by the cries of her baby Satuala.
‘I jumped up and got her straight up out of the cot and she was just covered in glass,’ Ms Stanley told Channel Seven.
‘She was just covered in blood, it was dripping.
‘I couldn’t tell where it was coming from. Her eyes weren’t closed. Every time she blinked, blood would come out.’
Gold Coast mother April Stanley (pictured with baby Satuala) was woken by a ‘blood-curldling scream
Shards of glass were scattered all over the cot, including on Satuala and in her hair.
‘There was a lot of panic and confusion,’ Ms Stanley said, but Satuala was quickly rushed to hospital, where for 24 hours doctors treated her for bruises and cuts to her forehead and eyes.
‘We were very upset and very worried,’ Ms Stanley said.
The traumatised family is now sleeping together in the living room, terrified of a repeat attack.
‘I just can’t believe somebody would do that,’ Ms Stanley said.
‘I am just not confident staying here knowing that somebody is out there and nothing has been done.’
Police are taking DNA samples from the rock in hopes of catching the perpetrator.
They have appealed for anyone who might have information that will help them catch the callous thug to contact them.
The was rushed to a Gold Coast hospital where she was treated for cuts and bruises to her forehead and eyes
The rock was thrown into through the window of the four-month-old’s bedroom
Rock fragments and shards of glass covered the room and were scattered in Satuala cot, even in her hair
In a radio interview earlier this month, Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll admitted her officers were battling a ‘relentless’ youth crime wave.
‘Our greatest challenge is this really tough group of young people, that 10 per cent that are committing around 48 per cent of the crime,’ she Brisbane’s 4BC station.
‘That’s about 400 youth across the state, we know these people, we interact with these people all the time.
‘They have been the ones that have been relentlessly offending.’
She says it was extraordinarily complex situation.
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