Baby is left ‘blinking blood’ after a rock thrown through the window rains shards of glass on her
- Stone thrown through the nursery window
- Baby left showered in glass and bleeding
- Gold Coast doctors treated cuts and bruises
A mother heard a ‘blood-curdling’ cry as a rock was thrown through her baby’s bedroom window, leaving the four-month-old girl covered in glass and flashing blood.
The horrific attack took place around midnight on Monday in Worongary, a suburb on the Gold Coast.
Mother April Stanley said she was awakened by the cries of her baby Satuala.
“I jumped up and lifted her right out of the bed and she was just under the glass,” Ms Stanley told Channel Seven.
“She was just covered in blood, it was dripping.
‘I couldn’t say where it came from. Her eyes weren’t closed every time she blinked, blood came out.’
Gold Coast mum April Stanley (pictured with baby Satuala) was awakened by a ‘blood-curdling scream’
The hurled stone broke into several pieces and shards of glass were scattered all over the bed, including on Satuala and in her hair.
“There was a lot of panic and confusion,” Ms Stanley said, but Satuala was rushed to hospital, where doctors treated her for 24 hours for bruises and cuts to her forehead and eyes.
“We were very upset and very concerned,” Ms. Stanley said.
The traumatized family now sleeps together in the living room, terrified of another attack.
“I just can’t believe anyone would do that,” said Ms. Stanley.
“I just don’t feel confident staying here knowing someone is there and nothing has been done.”
The police take DNA samples from the rock in hopes of catching the culprit.
They have appealed to anyone who may have information that could help them capture the heartless criminal to contact them.
The stone was thrown through the window of the four-month-old’s bedroom
She was rushed to a Gold Coast hospital where she was treated for cuts and bruises on her forehead and eyes
Shards of stone and shards of glass covered the room and were scattered in Satuala’s bed, even in her hair
In a radio interview earlier this month, Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll admitted that her officers had to contend with a “relentless” wave of juvenile delinquency.
“Our biggest challenge is this really tough group of young people, those 10 per cent who commit about 48 per cent of the crime,” she said on Brisbane’s 4BC station.
“That’s about 400 young people in the state, we know these people, we’re in constant contact with these people.
“They are the ones who offend relentlessly.”
She says it was an extremely complex situation.