Screams of ‘help me’

Teen arrested after pregnant woman stabbed in home invasion

A PREGNANT woman stabbed multiple times during a northern Sydney home invasion managed to stagger, bloodied and screaming, to her neighbour’s home where she banged on the door for help.

The 33-year-old – who’s reportedly seven months pregnant – was stabbed multiple times in the chest and abdomen after confronting a teenage boy in her Mount Colah home on Thursday evening. Her screams rang out through the stately cul-de-sac, neighbour Mark Bolger said yesterday.

“She just knocked on our door and said ‘I’ve been attacked help me, help me’,” he told reporters.

“We could see blood but not her actual wound.

“She was just totally distressed as we tried to ask her questions to get more information but she was so stressed she just couldn’t speak about many other things.”

Mr Bolger said the motherto-be appeared to have fought off and disarmed her attacker.

“She’s supposedly disarmed him so one would assume the bloke had raced away,” he said.

Droplets of blood on the ground show a path as she staggered to her next-door neighbour’s home desperately looking for help.

Mr Bolger said they tried to help the stricken woman inside their home but she stayed slumped in his doorway – so they swaddled her with blankets until police arrived.

She was rushed to Royal North Shore Hospital where she was yesterday in a serious but stable condition, a hospital spokeswoman said.

About an hour after the Thursday evening incident NSW Police arrested a 14year-old boy with hand injuries at a nearby home.

He is undergoing surgery and is expected to be charged, a police spokeswoman said.

The woman’s partner was away from home at the time of the attack, with Mr Bolger saying the young couple worked “24-7”.