A 17-year-old Astra Park resident was lucky to escape physically unharmed after an intruder broke into her parent’s Bougainvilla Cresent home and confronted her on Monday morning, 11 May.
The schoolgirl, whose parents requested her identify not be revealed, was at home alone sick in her bed when the man broke in through a kitchen window between 9am and 10am.
Her father said she didn’t hear anything and the man possibly went through the house thinking it was empty, before realising she was there.
“He told my daughter to keep quiet and he won’t hurt her.”
The man, armed with a knife and described as tall and skinny, took the girl’s laptop, tablet and entertainment centre.
“He told my daughter he was going and he would close the door. She was not to follow him or he would come back and hurt her.
Luckily she had her phone under her pillow, which he didn’t see. As soon as he was gone, she phoned me and the police.
She is totally shook up about the incident. She won’t go anywhere in the house alone and won’t even sleep on her own. She is petrified.
That man may have thought he has got away with what he did, but God saw him.
I’m just thankful my daughter is safe. It could have been much worse.”
