Update on Ashlee Good’s baby stabbed in Westfield Bondi stabbing – after her mother dies in attack
Police have given an update on the nine-month-old baby who was stabbed in the Bondi Junction stabbing.
Her mother, Ashlee Good, 38, was among six innocent shoppers killed in the horrific random attack in Sydney’s Westfield Bondi Junction on Saturday.
A 40-year-old man went on a terrifying stabbing spree around 3.20pm before he was shot dead by a lone female police officer.
A total of nine people, including Dr. Good’s nine-month-old daughter, suffered knife wounds.
The infant was taken to hospital last night in a critical condition for emergency surgery.
The police informed this morning about her condition
“We understand baby Harriet is stabilizing this morning. We understand she has had surgery and is still in a serious but stable condition.
Just hours before the horror unfolded, Ash Good posted a photo on Instagram with her baby in her arms
She also posted a short video of her daughter sitting in a car seat with The Temptations song My Girl superimposed
The infant is now fighting for his life after being taken to hospital for emergency surgery
Chilling details have emerged about what happened the moment Dr. Good and her baby were attacked.
Just before 5pm, a witness interrupted a Nine News reporter’s live cross from the scene and pointed to his brother, saying: ‘He’s a hero – he saved the baby.’
The visibly shaken man said he used clothes from a store to try to stem the baby’s bleeding.
“The child was stabbed and yes, the mother was stabbed,” he said. ‘The mother came over with the child and threw it at me.
“I was just helping by holding the baby… and trying to compress the baby.”
The two brothers stayed with their mother while they waited for emergency help.
‘(It was) very bad… a lot of blood on the floor… hope the child is ok,’ said the other brother.
Police are attending the scene in numbers and the Australian Federal Police are now liaising with the NSW Police
Another witness, a mall worker, recalled seeing a mother screaming on the level above.
“I see a mother and maybe her partner with a baby in a pram,” she told Nine News.
‘She screams really, really loud. She runs back and forth not knowing what to do.
“Then she comes back to the pram and picks up her baby, and there’s just blood all over her back.
‘The scream was unforgettable, it was the scariest thing I’ve ever seen.
‘My colleague took me, we locked all the doors, had to turn off all the lights and doors’.
Heartbreaking images from the scene showed the baby being taken away in an ambulance.
Dr. Good was taken to hospital but tragically died
Witnesses said that Dr. Good did everything in her power to save her little girl
The baby, who was among the nine stabbing victims, is pictured in an ambulance
Just 12 weeks after her baby girl was born, Dr Good posted a heartfelt message to social media about being a mum.
“It’s almost too much to put into words,” she wrote.
‘The love. The happiness. The fears. The new world. The new me; one that I am still discovering as I begin motherhood and complete the so-called fourth trimester.
‘It’s like experiencing your heart swell with love as you navigate anxiety for the first time.
‘Feeling so proud and so overwhelmed. The dichotomy of it all.
‘Sheer joy and extraordinary exhaustion mixed with emotions you’ve never felt before.’
She went on to say that being a parent is ‘the most uniquely beautiful gift you can ever receive’.
She added: ‘As I sit here feeling so deeply grateful and still pinching myself, she is ours.
‘I love her so much.’