Disturbing Incident in Sydney: Children Thrown Into River After Chilling Question

“Do you want to go to heaven?” 

It was the last question a young girl heard before she was thrown into a river wearing her princess dress and school shoes.

She had been standing on a bridge over the Georges River in Sydney’s south west with another girl in September 2023 when Hoda Elabady posed the query, according to court documents.

“No, I have a bright future,” the child replied, revealing her dream to be a police officer when she grows up.

Elabady then picked her up and threw her into the water 1.8 metres below the bridge, a court was told.

The 39-year-old then asked the second girl whether she wanted to “go to God” before also throwing her from the bridge. 

She faced a NSW District Court today after pleading not guilty to two counts of attempting to drown the girls with intent to murder. 

Elabady could not be held responsible for her actions due to her severe mental illness, her lawyer previously argued.

She lives with schizophrenia and was experiencing acute psychosis which involved hallucinations telling her to kill the girls and die by suicide.

Elabady had watched from above, anger plastered on her face, as the two girls struggled to remain above the water, Judge Huw Baker said.

“Please let us back up,” one of the girls yelled.

Instead the woman attempted to die by suicide, sustaining significant injuries to her legs and lower body, the court was told.

Standing on something submerged in the river, with nothing but a stick to help them stay afloat, the girls hugged each other and tried to signal for help.

A passer-by finally heard their calls at midday and pulled them from the water before they were taken to hospital, Judge Baker said.

Source: 9News