'I'm so grateful she survived, but life will never be same'

A SEVEN-year-old girl knifed in the arm and face in the attack suffers from frequent nightmares, her mother said.

- BY MARTIN FRICKER

She told the hearing how she dashed to the dance studio after learning of the stabbing in a phone call from a friend.

“That moment, the sound of fear in her voice and the panic I felt will never leave me,” she said.

“I rushed to the scene and what I saw is something no parent should ever see.”