Sean comes to aid of teen girl
IT TOOK a few moments for Sean Brock to realise he had been stabbed in the lung.
A flick knife pierced his abdomen, cutting into his organs as he wrestled a man off a teenage girl in the bushes at a Rosewood Skate Park in 2013.
He was 16 at the time and he and a friend, Anthony Smith, were using the skate park on an evening in the school holidays when they heard the young woman’s screams for help.
The pair found the victim and wrestled with the man – one hitting him over the head with a skate board, before he ran off.
His mum, Yasmin McLucas, can still remember holding her son’s head in her lap as they waited for the ambulance.
As he was wheeled into emergency surgery he told her, “I couldn’t let a man do that to a woman”.
After weeks in intensive care and four years of recovery, Mr Brock has been recognised at the Australian Bravery Awards for his courage. The apprentice mechanic, now 20, said adrenaline took over as he fought the man off the girl.
“A mate and I were down at the skate park and we heard a lady yelling and screaming from the bushes and we went there and saw a guy attacking a girl,” he said.
“The guy was on top of the girl and I ran up and footy tackled him, spear tackled him to get him off the girl.”
“All that was going through my mind was to help her, to do whatever I could to help her.”
He said he didn’t realise he had been stabbed.
“When I got up I felt a strange sensation and a couple of seconds later I realise I was stabbed,” he said. “There was a lot of adrenaline, the adrenaline helped me through a lot of the pain as well.”
Mr Brock said he didn’t think his efforts were deserving of a bravery award.
“Anyone would have done it if they were in the same position as me, that’s why I think I don’t deserve it,” he said. “Always help out when someone needs it because you might save a life.”