'Just stop, mummy': Nine-year-old tells heartbreaking story of how he lost his little brother after their mom tried to drown them both
A young boy who was nearly drowned by his own mother and watched his five-year-old brother die when she attacked him next shared a harrowing account of the ordeal in a video of his interrogation that was played in court.
The child was just nine years old when he survived the attack by his mother, a 28-year-old Deniliquin woman who can't be named for legal reasons, in the Murray River at Moama in NSW on March 2, 2017. Now, the mother is on trial for the murder of her youngest child and the attempted murder of her oldest, Chinchilla News reports.
After pleading not guilty to both charges earlier by way of mental illness, the woman is now on the third day of her week-long trial in Wagga Wagga court. The child, who was bandaged while speaking to detectives from his hospital bed, said his mother had taken them to the river under the false pretense of going fishing, according to the heartbreaking footage played in court on Wednesday.
