The nine-month-old baby stabbed by knife-crazed Joel Cauchi has been moved out of intensive care.
Osteopath Good, 38, was shopping with her nine-month-old daughter Harriet on Saturday afternoon when Joel Cauchi, 40, stabbed them both with a 30cm-long hunting knife.
One of Mrs. Good’s last acts before dying in the hospital was to throw Harriet into the arms of strangers begging them to “please help, help.”
Two brothers, wearing clothes from the Tommy Hilfiger store, stopped the baby’s bleeding before she was rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery.
Baby Harriet was being monitored in the Intensive Care Unit, but was discharged to a regular ward within the hospital on Tuesday night.
Osteopath Ash Good (pictured), 38, was shopping with his nine-month-old baby, Harriet, on Saturday afternoon when Joel Cauchi, 40, stabbed them with a 30cm-long hunting knife. long.
That morning, NSW Health Minister Ryan Park revealed that Harriet’s condition had improved.
“It is a pleasure to see how the nine-month-old baby’s condition at Randwick Children’s Hospital has been downgraded from critical to serious,” Mr Park told the ABC.
“We hope to have her in custody in the coming days.”
Earlier on Tuesday, Ms Good’s devastated parents and relatives visited the sea of ​​flowers, messages and teddy bears abandoned at the makeshift memorial outside Westfield Bondi Junction.
Her mother, wearing dark glasses and holding stuffed toys, was comforted by prominent defamation lawyer Rebekah Giles, who was a close friend of Ashlee and had been with her moments before the stabbing.
She had left the scene but quickly returned after news of the stabbing spread, only to discover that her close friend was among the victims.
Her mother, wearing dark glasses and holding stuffed toys, was comforted by prominent defamation lawyer Rebekah Giles, who was a close friend of Ashlee and had been with her moments before the stabbing (pictured).
Ms. Giles recently represented former Spotlight producer Taylor Auerbach, the man responsible for sensationally breaking open Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation trial.
Outpouring of public grief for Ms Good has led generous Australians to donate more than $460,000 to a fundraiser for her partner, Dan, and their orphaned son.
“Ash was a ray of sunshine and positivity in every aspect of his life and died a hero saving his young daughter from the most unspeakable evil.” GoFundMe wrote organizer Steven Foxwell.
Ms Good’s father was former North Melbourne AFL player and board member Kerry Good.
Her family remembered her as a “beautiful mother, daughter, sister, partner, friend” and an “exceptional human in every way.”
Ms Good was one of six victims of crazed knifeman Cauchi, who was later shot dead by a policewoman.
Advertising heiress Dawn Singleton, 25, architect Jade Young, 47, artist Pikria Darchia, 55, security guard Faraz Tahir, 30, and Chinese student Yixuan Cheng, 27 years, died on the spot.