Kingaroy court: Children watch in horror as mum left bloodied, bruised by drunken partner

‘She’s on the floor and he’s hurting her’: A terrified little girl was forced to step in to save her mum from a brutal attack, which left a woman with a significant facial injury and her children ‘emotionally distraught’.

A terrified nine-year-old girl was forced to call 000 after watching her mum savagely bashed by her partner, with police later finding a 12-year-old boy cowering in a bedroom following the brutal attack.

Kingaroy Magistrates Court was told a 000 operator answered the desperate pleas of the little girl on December 13, with the girl telling police to, “hurry up and get here, Mum is hurt.”

“She’s on the floor and he’s hurting her,” the girl told the operator.

“He’s hitting her. He won’t get out of the house.”

Officers arrived at the Kingaroy home to find the woman bruised and bleeding between her eyes and down the side of her face, hiding in a bedroom with two young girls.

In a second bedroom they found an “emotionally distraught” 12-year-old boy, police prosecutor Sergeant Lisa Manns said.

The man, aged in his 20s, had already left the property, with police noting a bloodied bathroom with holes punched in the door and wall.

Sergeant Manns said the victim told police she was sleeping when the man returned home from a night out of drinking and began yelling at her.

“She wasn’t too sure what occurred, but believes she may have lost consciousness after being struck by the (man),” she said.

“She was struggling to walk due to injuries to her back.”

The man later claimed the victim had been headbutting him and that he’d handed the phone to the little girl, however Sergeant Manns said he’d suffered no visible injuries other than to his hand from punching the wall.

He pleaded guilty to contravening his domestic violence order and was sentenced to six months in jail, with his parole date set for May 26.