Boolaroo stabbing: Teenage girl is charged with murdering her younger sister in Lake Macquarie region
- Teenage girl, 17, charged with murder
- Her younger sister was found with stab wounds
A teenage girl has been charged with murder after her younger sister was found stabbed to death.
The 17-year-old was arrested after her sister, 10, was found with stab wounds on Thurston Street in Boolaroo, in NSW’s Lake Macquarie region, at 3.45pm on Monday.
The 10-year-old girl was treated by paramedics before dying at the scene.
Her older sister was then escorted by officers to the Belmont Police Station.
A teenage girl has been charged with murder after her younger sister was found stabbed to death
Dozens of police officers remained at the scene on Thurston Street Monday evening
She was charged with murder (DV) and refused bail. She will appear in juvenile court on Tuesday.
The death of the ten-year-old girl has shocked the close-knit neighborhood.
“It’s just indescribable,” a neighbor who knew the girl’s family told the Sydney Morning Herald.
“We are grieving.”
Another resident told the Newcastle Herald that no one expected something so horrific to happen in their neighborhood.
Others had no idea anything was happening until several sirens sounded through the usually quiet street.
Photos from the crime scene show shocked locals gathering outside the crime scene.
There were a number of police vehicles parked in the street on Monday evening as detectives left and left the home on Monday evening.
Detectives declared the house a crime scene and launched an urgent investigation into the girl’s death