Kiara Williams, 16, was stabbed with a boxcutter Teen was attacked by youths in Melbourne park READ MORE: Police officer and father-of-two is found dead at a train station
A 16-year-old girl who was stabbed in the neck with a boxcutter has revealed the terrifying moment she thought she was going to die.
Kiara Williams was on her way home from a gathering in Greensborough, in Melbourne’s northeast, when she was viciously attacked at random by teenagers who remain at large.
She was stabbed in the neck and arm before being left to bleed out at Greensborough War Memorial Park on a Saturday night last October.
‘In the back of my mind, I was like, am I dying right now? And that was scary,’ the teenager told 9News.
‘Everything just went black, my ears were ringing.’
Ms Williams didn’t realise she had been stabbed until one of the people she was with pointed out the gushing wound on her neck.
Her terrified mother raced to the park to find her only child semi-conscious.
Kiara Williams, 16, says her scars are a ‘constant reminder’ of the night she almost died
Ms Williams was rushed to Royal Melbourne Hospital to undergo treatment and miraculously made a full recovery.
She now struggles to complete everyday tasks like go to the shops or catch the bus.
The teen says her scars serve as a ‘constant reminder’ of the night she almost died.
‘This has completely messed up my mental health,’ she said.
‘I just have to keep an eye out everywhere. So whatever I’m doing, wherever I am, I’m so cautious of my surroundings now.’
She said her traumatised mother still ‘doesn’t know how to cope’.
Ms Williams has shared her story in the hopes it will prevent a similar incident from happening to another teenager.
She says everyone deserves to live without the fear of being stabbed.
‘If you are planning on using a weapon, you’re planning to use it to either kill someone or severely hurt someone, genuinely it’s embarrassing,’ she said.
‘It shows how much of a low life you are and that you’re looking for the attention.’
Kiara Williams, 16, was on her way home from a gathering in Greensborough, in Melbourne ‘s northeast, when she was viciously attacked by two youths
She was stabbed in the neck and arm before being left to bleed out at Greensborough War Memorial Park (pictured) on a Saturday night last October
It comes as gang-related offending among young people in Victoria is on the rise, with hospitalisations for knife attacks having risen above pre-pandemic levels.
Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police Shane Patton told a parliamentary inquiry last November that youth gangs would become a focus for the state police force.
He told MPs that police were considering a ban on machetes.
‘We’ve certainly been talking with government about that, and a young person can’t be carrying a machete around in public,’ Commissioner Patton said.
‘Knife crime is a significant issue for us.’
In children between the ages of 10 and 14, there was a 192 per cent increase in the number of alleged aggravated burglaries from 85 to 249 incidents since 2019.
In the same time period, there was a 131 per cent increase in alleged aggravated burglaries committed by teenagers between the ages of 15 and 17.
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