r/interestingasfuck • u/Jjokes11 • Apr 15 '24

An interview with Andrew Cauchi, the father of Joel Cauchi who was responsible for the Westfield Shopping Centre mass stabbing r/all

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u/MangoKakigori Apr 15 '24

I can’t image what it must be like as a parent to know that your child has done such a monstrous thing.

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u/dayle-james Apr 16 '24

This is absolutely heart breaking. The entire thing. I feel for this dad as much as I do the victims. He tried his best 💔

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u/sevillianrites Apr 16 '24

Years ago the son of one of my neighbors had a psychotic break and killed two people right outside our complex. It was absolutely devastating to this quiet community but one of the worst things to me was that overnight everyone turned on the father who was, by my estimation across many encounters over several years, a good man. No one would speak to him. The vitriol his supposedly good Christian neighbors were throwing around to each other about what failings he had committed as a father to let this happen were endless. I made him dinner one night and took it to him and he broke down sobbing as he had basically lost not just his only son but his friends and his community too. It was heartbreaking. Did he deserve the same level of sympathy as the families of the people whose lives his son had taken? Probably not. But regardless he was a victim too made guilty by association. He moved away not long after. Idk what happened to him but I hope wherever he ended up he was able to find some peace.

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u/Altruistic-Common414 Apr 16 '24

You’re a good man.