Mother arrested after stabbing attack kills one child, injures two in Blue Mountains

On a Sunday in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, a scene of unthinkable violence unfolded beside a roadside vehicle, where bystanders found a woman and three young children gravely wounded — one child would not survive. Police allege the mother carried out the attack, and her case now sits at the centre of a broader reckoning: a single weekend in New South Wales saw four separate domestic violence incidents involving edged weapons, none of the alleged perpetrators previously known to authorities. The tragedy raises an ancient and urgent question — how does a society protect those it cannot ye