Major update on baby stabbed in Westfield Bondi Junction attack

The welcome news is that the baby, who was the victim of the knifeman at Bondi Junction last Saturday, is showing signs of recovery and has improved from a serious but stable condition to a stable condition.

The nine-month-old girl’s 38-year-old mother, Ashlee Good, was one of six victims of the stabbing death of madman Joel Cauchi in the Sydney shopping center and in her dying act she passed the child, named Harriet, to two brothers to save her. to live.

NSW health officials announced the improvement in Harriet’s condition on Friday afternoon and also provided updates on other surviving victims of the horrific stabbing in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.

“Some patients have been treated and discharged, while six patients continue to receive hospital care for their injuries,” a NSW Health spokesperson said.

There are two remaining patients at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney, a man and a woman who are both stable.

The woman remained in serious but stable condition in the intensive care unit, while the man is being treated in stable condition in the general ward.

Another female patient is in a stable condition at Royal North Shore Hospital.

It was announced on Tuesday that Harriet had been moved from intensive care to a normal ward Sydney Children’s Hospital.

After Cauchi, 40, stabbed both Mrs Good and Harriet with a 30cm hunting knife, the fatally wounded mother managed to hand the child over to the brothers, whom she did not know, with the desperate plea to ‘please help, help’.

The brothers, Joe and Rick Tomarchio, were at the mall when they witnessed Ms. Good and Harriet being stabbed by Cauchi around 3:20 p.m.

The siblings then rushed the injured mother and daughter to a Tommy Hilfiger store in a desperate attempt to save their lives – using the store’s clothing to compress their wounds.

Brothers Rick (left) and Joe Tomarchio (right) helped save the life of a nine-month-old baby during the Bondi massacre on Saturday

Their moving story of how a terribly injured Dr. Good passed the baby to Rick became one of the first stories about the incident.

The brothers spoke to a TV news reporter at the scene moments after they were evacuated from the mall.

Now Daily Mail Australia can reveal that Sydney banker Joe was publicly praised in 2010 when he stopped to help an elderly woman who had fallen and broken her head on the road in the city’s CBD.

The Good Samaritan held the elderly woman’s head up and called on other bystanders to help him as they waited for an ambulance to arrive.

‘It was automatic. I knew someone had to take control of the situation,” Tomarchio told media at the time.

“I took her hand and told her everything was going to be okay.

‘I then asked where she worked, tried to keep her talking and really made her feel comfortable, and then enlisted the help of the local construction workers.’

Mr Tomarchio, who was walking to work when he witnessed the woman’s fall, said he was surprised no one else had stopped to help as she lay in the road during rush hour.

The woman’s daughter called him a star and said that when she first saw her mother, she thought she was dead.

“Joe was the star. The way he stayed so calm and just held her hand, I can’t thank him enough,” she said at the time.