Chloe May Geale, pleads guilty to Salamander Bay stabbing rampage
Chloe May Geale, accused of stabbing multiple people, including a five year old girl at Salamander Bay near Port Stephens in August last year, has now pleaded guilty to five charges.
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A woman accused of stabbing four people, including a five-year-old girl at Port Stephens in August last year, has now pleaded guilty to five charges.
Chloe May Geale, 26, went on a rampage with a knife and scissors, first attacking a man in his car, stabbing several people at an IGA grocery store, before turning the knife on a little girl and stabbing her in the head, at Salamander Bay.
In Newcastle Local Court on Wednesday, Geale appeared via video link and pleaded guilty to three counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, assaulting police and reckless wounding.
Those pleas led to the withdrawal of four counts of armed with intent to commit indictable offence, wound a person with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and affray.
She will front court again next week.
In September last year, Geale’s lawyer applied for bail on behalf of her client and argued her mental health was vulnerable and that she suffered from PTSD, anxiety and depression.
She told the court Ms Geale was willing to be under house arrest if given bail, where she would only be allowed out of the house a couple of hours in the day for medical treatment.
But the prosecutor opposed bail and argued the case against Ms Geale had serious disturbing facts, citing she posed a danger to the community. Bail was denied.