The mother of a Bondi Junction stabbing victim has shared her shock and anger at learning her daughter’s fate after watching her being given CPR during a live television news broadcast.
Elizabeth Young, Jade Young’s mother, says broadcasting her daughter’s final moments to millions of people was an “appalling violation of privacy and an insult to human dignity.”
Jade, a 47-year-old mother of two, was with her youngest daughter in Sydney’s eastern shopping center when Joel Cauchi stabbed her and five others to death on April 13.
Elizabeth Young, mother of Bondi Junction stabbing victim Jade Young,
writing in the Sydney Morning Herald Ms Young said the media “scratched the bottom of humanity’s barrel” by sharing images of her dying daughter.
“I point my finger at the person who sees fit to capture the moment and then share it, and at the main channel for putting it on the air,” he wrote. ‘For what reason? I can only think that it is to satisfy society’s increasingly morbid curiosity.’
Ms Young accused the media of “commodifying” her daughter’s death and turning it into “casual content”.
He said the same media organizations reached out to his family within hours of the tragedy “offering their condolences…and the opportunity to share our family’s story.”
‘These same media organizations reported that a certain popular social media platform had failed to remove videos, without acknowledging their own complicity. “I’m not surprised by your hypocrisy, but I am angry,” she wrote.
Social media platform April 15.
“Sharing violent images or personal material from the lives of crime victims is not free speech – it is hugely profitable for some, but it is speech that comes at a high price for victims,” Ms Young said.
Jade Young, a mother of two, was one of six stabbing victims who lost their lives in Bondi Junction on April 13.
The role of the media and social media has come under intense scrutiny since the stabbings of Bondi Junction and the bishop of Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley.
Less than a day after Ashlee Good was identified as one of the Bondi Junction victims, her family requested that the media remove photos of her and her family, which had been published without her consent.
The morning after the rampage, college student Ben Cohen was falsely named as the Knife Man by Channel Seven’s Weekend Sunrise show.
After hiring high-profile defamation lawyers to sue the network, Cohen settled with Seven for an undisclosed sum last week.
Musk is waging legal action against Australia’s eSafety Commissioner Julie Inmam Grant, who declared that the video of the bishop’s stabbing, which was broadcast live from the church, must be removed.
While other social media platforms, such as Facebook, complied with the order, X geo-blocked the material from Australia but allowed it to be posted to overseas accounts.
The Federal Court is deciding whether this is acceptable and the eSafety Commissioner argues that Australians can still access the video if they have special software.
