Courts / Sydney, NSW

Mother charged over Blue Mountains stabbing attack on children

The Sydney Morning Herald Daniel Lo Surdo

22 Sept 2026 17:47 AEST Summary

From the report

The Sydney woman, 42, has been charged with the murder of her five-year-old son and the attempted murder of his two younger siblings.

**Not from this story.** A library photograph of australian courthouse, used to illustrate it. 790 - Bathurst Court House - Bathurst Courthouse (5001371b1) Stewart Watters / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY

**Not from this story.** A library photograph of australian courthouse, used to illustrate it. 790 - Bathurst Court House - Bathurst Courthouse (5001371b1) Stewart Watters / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY

This is a summary. The indicators are not. The scores were measured over this summary alone, which is less of the article than we would like and makes them less certain.

Indicators

Niral Score 12.9 mundaneloaded

Highlighted in the text. Words that carry a fact and quoted words are not counted.

charged2murder2

Sentiment -0.1 hostilefavourable Sourcing 36 unattributednamed sources Mood 11.8 sorrowjoyful

5 read zero: political diction, generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

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How outlets headlined it

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The Sydney Morning Herald Mother charged over Blue Mountains stabbing attack on children plain
The West Australian Mum charged with murder after boy, 5, dies in horror Blue Mountains stabbing plain
The Age Woman charged with murder over alleged Blue Mountains stabbing plain
The West Australian Mother charged with murder after child stabbed to death plain

How this outlet filed it, and how we rewrote it

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Also covered by The Age, The West Australian, WAtoday, Brisbane Times, The Sydney Morning Herald. We hold only their summary of it, not the report, so there is nothing of theirs to measure here.

Outlet	Niral Score
The Sydney Morning Heraldas they published this story	12.9

Also reported by

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Mother charged with murder after child stabbed to death cootamundraherald.com.au

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The same event elsewhere

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The Age Mother charged over Blue Mountains stabbing attack on children Niral 12.9 political 0 The West Australian Mum charged with murder after boy, 5, dies in horror Blue Mountains stabbing Niral 5.5 political 0 WAtoday Mother charged over Blue Mountains stabbing attack on children Niral 12.9 political 0 Brisbane Times Mother charged over Blue Mountains stabbing attack on children Niral 12.9 political 0 The Age Woman charged with murder over alleged Blue Mountains stabbing Niral 3.4 political 0 The West Australian Mother charged with murder after child stabbed to death Niral 4.2 political 0 The Sydney Morning Herald Woman charged with murder over alleged Blue Mountains stabbing Niral 3.4 political 0 WAtoday Woman charged with murder over alleged Blue Mountains stabbing Niral 3.4 political 0