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Woman charged with murder after child dies, two critical after alleged stabbing - Blue Mountains PAC

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Woman charged with murder after child dies, two critical after alleged stabbing - Blue Mountains PAC
Blue Mountains, New South Wales · NSW Police

The release

A woman has been charged following an alleged fatal stabbing which left one child dead and two children in a critical condition in the Blue Mountains.

About 12.45pm on Sunday 20 September 2026, emergency services responded to reports of three children and a woman suffering from alleged stab wounds in a vehicle on Waratah Road, Valley Heights.

Officers from Blue Mountains Police Area Command attended and were told several members of the public performed first aid on the woman and three children whilst contacting Triple Zero.

One of the children – aged 5 - was located deceased in the vehicle.

NSW Ambulance paramedics treated the two children – aged 1 and 3 - and the woman – aged 42 - at the scene before they were conveyed to Westmead Hospital and Westmead Children’s Hospital.

Following inquiries, today (Tuesday 22 September 2026), detectives charged the 42-year-old woman in a bedside court hearing with murder (DV) and two counts of cause wounding/grievous bodily harm to person with intent to murder (DV).

She was refused bail to appear before Penrith Local Court on Friday 20 November 2026.

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Crime in the Blue Mountains council area

Blue Mountains is a council area in New South Wales with about 79,236 residents. It has a Crime Score 26 out of 100 (low), 306th of 362 councils nationally.

The score blends national percentile ranks for each published offence category with fixed severity weights; here it is driven most by sexual offences (50th percentile), homicide (41st percentile), robbery (43rd percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 30.

Violent
772 per 100k
Property
1,560 per 100k
Break-ins
153 per 100k
Theft
535 per 100k

See the full Blue Mountains crime profile

2016-17: 848 per 100,0002017-18: 810 per 100,0002018-19: 744 per 100,0002019-20: 669 per 100,0002020-21: 753 per 100,0002021-22: 717 per 100,0002022-23: 888 per 100,0002023-24: 789 per 100,0002024-25: 799 per 100,0002025-26: 772 per 100,0002016-172021-222025-26
Recorded violent offences per 100,000 residents in Blue Mountains, 2016-17 to 2025-26 — down 9% over the period. Source: recorded crime published for New South Wales.

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