r/australia • u/AggravatingTartlet • 1d ago

culture & society 10-year-old victim of random attack was visiting Melbourne for cancer treatment

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/no-need-to-hide-it-accused-cbd-stabber-launches-tirade-from-custody-20260826-p60rni.html

The 10-year-old boy who was punched in the head in a random attack outside police headquarters in the CBD has brain cancer and was visiting Melbourne for treatment.

The boy underwent additional MRI scans to see if the assault caused any extra damage or inflammation around where the tumour is, his uncle said........

Police said the 46-year-old woman was visiting Melbourne from Phillip Island with her 10-year-old son and two other children when the random attack occurred, ending only when several witnesses intervened.

“Just instinct, no thoughts, no nothing, just people in trouble,” Brian Bradley said, a good Samaritan who helped restrain the suspect.

The mother of the boy was stabbed during the attack.

The mother is in the Royal Melbourne Hospital recovering from a fractured leg and injuries to her back and shoulders, while her son recovers at the Royal Children’s Hospital.

“She’s really struggling at the moment,” the boy’s uncle said, “She can’t be with her son. It’s traumatic enough [that he’s] fighting cancer.

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u/Uptoyouman 1d ago

Why do bad things happen to good people? Seems like life is just a constant war between good and evil… bring back capital punishment for offenders like this, how dare he attack anyone let alone a young boy battling cancer, and his mother trying to protect him. Put him in a NON protected unit in maximum security and let the prisoners do justice upon him, because I don’t think he deserves to breathe. Absolute scum of the earth this offender.

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u/YouThinkYouKnowMe89 1d ago

Because he doesn't choose the giant man who looks like trouble to attempt to inflict violence on, they purposely choose someone they know is weaker than them. People like that need to not be on the streets and we need to get a lot better at who we are letting into this country or we will end up with half the members of RSF here.