Five-year-old girl allegedly stabbed in the head at NSW school; mother questions school response

Moree, Australia — A five-year-old girl was allegedly stabbed in the head with a pencil by a classmate while at St Philomena's School in Moree, a regional town in northern New South Wales, on September 17. Paramedics treated the child at the school for injuries.

According to the girl's mother, Eliza, staff at the school refused to disclose how the injury occurred and have not provided further information about the incident. She said she arrived at the campus after being told an ambulance had to be called because there was a large amount of blood coming from her daughter's head, and that the only information she had came from what her daughter had shared.

Eliza said the school has minimized the incident by describing it as a skin puncture in a newsletter posted to the school's internal app on Saturday.

At this time, there has been no publicly released information from the school beyond the internal newsletter described by Eliza. The family continues to seek additional details about what happened and how such an incident is being addressed within the school community.