‘I was scared', Perth mum who stabbed daughter's secret boyfriend tells jury
Jennifer Mui Len Chin, 49, has pleaded not guilty to causing bodily harm after the boy was left with four superficial stab wounds.
Chin was arrested and charged after the incident on October 17, 2023, and admitted using a 23-centimetre kitchen knife to stab the boy on each side of his chest and twice in his shoulder.
However, she has stood by assertions she believed he was an intruder who had broken into the family's Parkwood home.
Malaysian-born Chin, who is a conservative Christian, told the court she and her husband had a rule that her daughter, who was also 14 at the time, could not date or have male friends in the house.
During Chin's trial, which began on Tuesday, the mother told the court she was concerned about her daughter's sexualised behaviour, which had previously led to her iPad being confiscated.
But under cross-examination, prosecutor Chadd Graham put it to the mother-of-two that she realised her daughter had snuck a boy into the house after she found him in her husband's bed half naked, and, 'acting out of anger', she asked her son to pass her a knife before stabbing the teenager.
'I suggest you did it because you were angry,' Graham asked.
'No,' Chin replied.
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