{"id":903786,"date":"2026-09-24T13:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T13:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/903786\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T13:54:12","slug":"second-child-dies-after-blue-mountains-stabbing-mother-remains-before-the-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/903786\/","title":{"rendered":"Second child dies after Blue Mountains stabbing, mother remains before the courts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A second child has died after a mother allegedly stabbed her three children in the Blue Mountains on the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">NSW Police said the child, aged one, died on Thursday in hospital after the children were attacked at Valley Heights near Springwood on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Family and domestic violence support services:<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">If you need help immediately, call emergency services on Triple Zero.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">It comes after one of the child&#8217;s siblings, a five-year-old boy, was found dead inside the vehicle police responded to on Waratah Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The mother was also found at the scene with self-inflicted stab wounds, police have previously said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police were told members of the public performed first aid on the children before emergency services arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A third sibling, a three-year-old who also sustained stab wounds, remains in a critical condition in hospital.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"police officers and emergency cars at a scene of a stabbing in the blue mountains\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ac979df8e368e49b97dd40235157ecd7.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">The woman has been charged with a second count of murder and is due in court in November. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The woman was charged with murder and police said the mother has now been charged with an additional count of murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">She is due to face Penrith Local Court in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A second child has died after a mother allegedly stabbed her three children in the Blue Mountains on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[471973,471974,471970,471976,471972,471971,43,44,41,39,42,40,471975,471969,471977],"class_list":["post-903786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-alleged-murders","tag-blue-mountains-mother-charged","tag-blue-mountains-stabbing","tag-child-dies-blue-mountains","tag-children-killed","tag-children-stabbed","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-two-children-dead","tag-valley-heights-stabbing","tag-westmead-childrens-hospital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}